Lucy MacKenzie Howie

My SGSAH-AHRC-funded project adresses photography, video, and film of 1980s-1990s Britain, to consider the intersecting but often overlooked histories of disability, sexuality, and the politics of representation. I am particularly interested in experimental lens-based works by women, queer and trans* artists who use citation, non-normative narrative, and fantasy to articulate a felt parallel with bodies culturally inscribed as queer and disabled. Bringing questions of health to the forefront of discussions on lens-based media that addresses class, gender, sexuality and race, my project examines the challenge to documentary form in photography theory and locates where these debates were transformed to new ends in disability rights activism and in response to Section 28.