Mary Phan

Wild, Free, and Uncontrolled: Naturalist Photography of the Nature Conservancy Council and Royal Photographic Society Collection

I am a writer, researcher, and curator. As Curatorial Fellow in Photography, supported by the Bern Schwartz Foundation, I am investigating 19th– and 20th-century naturalist photography in the Royal Photographic Society Collection.

Selected publications, exhibitions, events

Co-organiser, with The National Archives, of the symposium The Materials of Photography, September 2023 

Ecology and the Photobook, Photography Centre display, V&A, June 2024