Damian Sutton

My work is mainly in the contextual understanding of photographs and photographic practices in the past and the present. For over twenty years I have taught history and theory to art, design, and photography students at Glasgow School of Art, Middlesex University, and here at Coventry. I supervise doctoral projects in photography and arts practice and theory.

I am currently working on a book on iconic photographic portraiture in history and theory. I also remain interested in philosophy and critical theory of the arts (Deleuze and Guattari, Bergson, Rancière and others) and in visual culture more widely. 

In development

I am currently developing project ideas in:

- photography, ethics, and consent

- the legacy of the flâneur in modern and recent photography

Doctoral Supervisions (* indicates practice-led research)

Current

Ben Campion: ‘Art, Agency and Ethics: A Critique of Aesthetic Scepticism in the Philosophy of Photography’ (Warwick, supervisor)

https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/ben-campion/

Completed

*Alex Murphy: ‘An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis’ (Middlesex, Director of Studies then supervisor) https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/37329/

*Carla Hamer: ‘Photographic encounters: A performative framework for practice-led

ethnographically-informed research’ (Middlesex, Director of Studies then supervisor)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2016.1205321?casa_token=sk96SsXaV3YAAAAA:YCsmXvZGY3BJ20UD_zHlyamu0_5KG9ul1dfNpk33ElZJyewA9UChFNiR3Otg0c72TgpmsrDSwgxeXA

Darren Berkland: ‘The gestural assembling of the selfie’ (Coventry, supervisor)

https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-gestural-assembling-of-the-selfie

*Rebecca Key: ‘From Sketchbook to Gallery, Script to Screen:Drawing with Objects in Installation & Mise-en-scène’ (Coventry, Director of Studies)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Key

Francien Broekhuizen: ‘Postfeminist wedding cultures: temporality, materiality and embodiment’ (Coventry, supervisor)

https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/postfeminist-wedding-cultures

*Nina Bacos: ‘A White Woman’s Photographic Travel Journal’ (Glasgow School of Art, Co-director of Studies)

http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/4895/