I study the artistic, commercial, cultural, historical, scientific, socio-political, technological and visual entanglements manifested in the photographic images and practices of Meiji-Era Japan. I collect, curate, and conserve photographic images, objects and technology of the period, and provide preventive conservation of film and photographic collections. I present and publish my research findings internationally, and coordinate the Public Programme at the Photographic Historical Society of Canada. I develop and teach higher-education courses on science and technology, communication, film, media, photography and visual culture studies.
2023 Guest Editor, PhotoResearcher No. 40 Photograph Truths: Imposed Narratives, November 2023.
2022 Symposium Organizer, Technologies, Expeditions, Empires: Three-Colour Photography around 1900.
2021 Faculty, Media and Communication Studies, University of Guelph Humber, Toronto.
2020 Ph.D. student, Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K..
2019 Elected to Board of Directors (Programme), Photographic Historical Society of Canada, Toronto.
2018 Faculty, School of English and Liberal Studies, Seneca College of Art and Technology, Toronto.
2017 Assistant collections Manager, Asian Art and Culture Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum
2016 Junior researcher and curatorial assistant at The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON.
2015 Began Masters in Film and Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson.
2007 Co-founder and Curator of intercultural and International exhibitions, SoHo Art Gallery, Osaka.
2003 Multi-modal Intercultural Communication instructor and trainer, NOVA Group.
2001 Instructional Designer, Fiserv, Inc., Detroit, MI.
2000 Instructional Designer, ASTI, Detroit, MI.
SYMPOSIA
2022 Photo Workshop 2022: Photography as Knowledge (Re-) Production in Twentieth Century East Asia
A workshop on the history of photography at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, 17th to 19th February 2022, Heidelberg, Germany.
"Margaret's Letter, A Digital Media Shared Experience,"
Video, 7:30 minutes, 2022, Celio H. Barreto, Ph.D. Student, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K., Faculty, Seneca College of Applied Art and Technology, Toronto, Canada.
2021 ASIA PHOTO 2021: International Symposium Photography in Asia 1839-1939
Charles University in Prague / KREAS Project, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague/ Faculty of Film and Television, and European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology.
"The Syasin Makie of Mizuno Hanbeh: Unique Reproductions or Something Else?"
Celio H. Barreto, Ph.D. Student, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K., Faculty, Seneca College of Applied Art and Technology, Toronto, Canada.
Charles University Prague, Czechia,
Stereoscopic and Interactive Media: Online Edition, Lisbon, June 11-12 & 18-19, 2021
Russo-Japanese War Stereograph by Jimmy Hare, 1905, Featured in Collectors Choices video program.
MIRA Workshop: The Journey Around the World Through Images, From the 19th Century to the Contemporary Age,
"That’s Not Fair!: The Yellow Peril in 3D",
Mutual Images Research Association,
University of Padua, Padua, Italy. (November 6th to 7th, 2020)
PHRC20, CAMERA EDUCATION: Photographic Histories of Visual Literacy, Schooling and the Imagination.
"From the Home Front to the Front Lines: The Domestic Picture Postcards Undermining Japanese Martial and Social Values during the Russo-Japanesse War, 1904-1905".
De Montfort University, Leicester, England, U.K.. (June 15th to 16th, 2020)
The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018, The West in Japanese Imagination / Japane in Western Imagination: 150 Years to the Meiji Restoration,
"The MacLean Orihon: A Visual Chronicle of the Russo-Japanese War", University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. (December 18th to 20th, 2018)
PHRC18, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.. (June 2018)
Photography: The Black Box of History, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON. (March 2018)
Reframing Family Photography: Care Work & Visual Kinship, Caring for Photographs in The Family Camera Network archive at The ROM, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, (Nov. 1, 2017)
ROM Daytime Talks, The Cameras of The Family Camera Exhibition, (June 29th, 2017)
ROM Research Colloquium 2017, Dating Old Photographs with Google Software Tools, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON. (Feb. 28, 2017)
FOCUS: YYZ, Ryerson University, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
TRANSNATIONAL ART, Keynote address, Osaka Contemporary Art Centre, Osaka, Japan, (2009 - 2012), The Enokojima Art Culture and Creative Centre, Osaka, Osaka, Japan (2013 - 2015)
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT OSAKA, Collecting Art, Knowledge Capital, Osaka, Japan. (June 2014)
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT KYOTO, artcube, UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan. (April 23, 2013)
DESIGN MATTERS JAPAN, Creating a Photobook: Soñar Con Japón, Apple Store Theatre, Osaka, Japan. (Dec. 18, 2008)