About me
Molly Caenwyn (they/them) is a photographer and photographic historian with an avid interest in materiality and the phenomenological experience of photography. They an AHRC-funded researcher doing a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Their PhD project “The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present" explores the intersections of home, photographic practice and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people.
Molly is are interested in overlooked and underrepresented photographic histories, having previously written about Sex Worker Cards in telephone boxes and early Welsh women photographers. Molly's PhD research looks at that underrepresentation of the darkroom, photographic practice in the home and everyday LGBTQIA+ photographic history.
Their practical background in analogue and alternative photographic processes helps to inform the work as their practice is regularly located within the domestic space. In additions their work explores the body, identity and brings the home into the practice by incorporating foods from the kitchen cupboards to create black and white film developers.
Teaching
Experience running practical workshops on the Cyanotype photographic process in gallery settings.
Teaching experience running sessions on the MA Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture.
Modules: Social Justice and Representational Practices in Cultural Institutions and Museum Narratives
Research
LGBTQIA+ Photographic history
Home Studies
Museum collecting and Queering museum practice