Liz Wells - Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place and Identity

L IZ W ELLS writes, curates and lectures on photography. Her publications include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity(I.B.Tauris 2011). She edited Photography: A Critical Introduction(2009, 4th ed.) and The Photography Reader(2003), and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. In 2012 she guest curated Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography(BOZAR, Brussels). Since 2010 she has collaborated on several projects with Cypriot photographers and curators. She is Professor in Photographic Culture at the Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University and convenes the research group for Land/ Water and the Visual Arts ( www.landwater-research.co.uk ).

T HEOPISTI S TYLIANOU -L AMBERT has published on photography, museums and tourism. She is the author of Tourists Who Shootand the co-editor of Re-envisioning Cyprus. She earned her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and has received several awards and scholarships including an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. As a photographer she participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Fine and Applied Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and the coordinator of the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab ( www.vsmslab.com ).

N ICOS P HILIPPOU is a photographer, visual ethnographer and author of the books Off the Mapand Coffee House Embellishments. He is co-editor of Re-envisioning Cyprus and his writings on photography and vernacular culture have been published in journals, art magazines and collective volumes. As a photographer he has participated in several exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. He holds an MA in Communications and Technology from Brunel University, UK. He is currently lecturing at the Communications Department of the University of Nicosia and is working towards his PhD at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Bristol.