Qualifications
- BA (University College London)
- MA (University College London)
- PhD / DPhil (University College London)
- PCAP (University of Hull)
Summary
Barnaby teaches and researches American visual culture with a specialism in the history of photography. Barnaby has written widely on American documentary photography of the early 1930s, including articles on Paul Strand, Margaret Bourke-White, and the Workers Film and Photo League.
His current research explores the intersection of radical politics and campaigns against racial injustice in relation to press photography and political propaganda. He is developing a monograph (under contract with Routledge for its History of Photography series) on the uses of photography in the media coverage of the Scottsboro Case.
He is Co-Director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre.