Elizabeth Breiner

Elizabeth Breiner is a writer and curator with a specialisation in photography. She holds an MA from University College London and undergraduate degrees in English and the History of Art from Vassar College and Birkbeck University. Ongoing academic and curatorial work has addressed the slippery status of the documentary image and the challenges of researching and representing discreet forms of violence. Recent exhibitions investigated the relationship between protest, performance, and the Turkish state propaganda machine, and the entwined histories of criminology and criminal portraiture as a means of understanding the destructive scope of modern digital punishment and other engrained biases in the American criminal justice system.

She has worked across the arts and cultural sectors in the UK and abroad, written for a number of international publications, and curated exhibitions for institutions including Apexart, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Benrubi Gallery, and the Consulate General of Italy.