SHOT DEAD Crime Scene Photography in Art and Culture with Catriona Byers on Tuesday the 22nd October 2023 at 7:00 pm Originally introduced in late nineteenth-century Paris, crime scene photography was designed to capture an accurate, objective overview of a serious crime scene. This budding technology was then adopted by police departments around the world, quickly becoming an essential tool for criminal investigation. Catriona Byers Catriona Byers is a writer, photographer and historian specialising in urban death, policing, medicine, and photography from the nineteenth-century to the present day. She is currently completing a PhD in History at King’s College London, where her thesis compares the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York, alongside research projects relating to crime scene photography and ghosts in the archive. She is based in Paris, and moonlights as a photographer and food stylist alongside her historical research. For more of Catriona’s work, you can follow her on Instagram @heymorguegirl, or visit www.heymorguegirl.com |
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