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ProfPiotr Cieplak

Professor of Creative Practice and Visual Cultures (Creative and Critical Practice)

School of Media, Arts and Humanities

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  • Professor of Creative Practice and Visual Cultures (Creative and Critical Practice)
    School of Media, Arts and Humanities
  • +44 (0)1273 872530 Ext.2530 (Work)

RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP SUMMARy

I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my areas of expertise, including but not limited to:
Visual and memorial cultures in Africa and South America (especially Argentina); Documentary film (practice & theory); Vernacular and domestic photography practices; Commemoration of genocide and mass-violence; Photography and photojournalism; Subjective and first-person filmmaking; The genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Memory and commemoration studies. 

I am particularly interested in hearing about projects involving elements of creative practice as research.

GRANTS

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  • GRANT
    Image and (Dis)Appearance: photographic encounters in post-dictatorship Argentina
    BRITISH ACADEMY1 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cieplak P
    Research
  • GRANT
    Intimate moments, public acts: photographs of the disappeared and memory politics in Argentina
    BRITISH ACADEMY1 Sep 2020 - 31 Mar 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cieplak P
    Research
  • GRANT
    Public deaths, private archives: image-based commemoration and remembrance in Rwanda and the Global South
    BRITISH ACADEMY31 Mar 2018 - 29 Nov 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cieplak P
    Research