College: King’s College
Email: mfd32@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Rory O’Bryen
Research Topic: The new sun worshippers: photography, print culture and speculation in the American hemisphere between 1839 and 1859
About
María Fernanda Domínguez Londoño is a Colombian interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the history of photography, material practices, and intellectual networks. Further, her work contributes to the fields of art history and history of photography as it expands upon the history of the nineteenth century in South America and the Caribbean from a visual perspective. Her research interrogates the production relations behind early photography in the Americas and a global market through a metabolic lens, establishing connections between extraction and circulation of raw materials from the Americas and the production of cosmopolitan forms of citizenship. She holds a Masters in Art History and Archaeology from New York University and undergraduate degrees in Art and Design from Universidad de los Andes.
Research
Scholarships/Prizes
Cambridge Trust and King’s College 2021
Fulbright MinCultura Scholarship 2015-2017
Fellowships
The Shelby White and Leon Levy Travel Grant 2016
Conference papers
“Speculations on the margins: Finding John Armstrong Bennet through photographic materials”, in The Materials of Photography: an interdisciplinary symposium organised by The National Archives and the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, 13 September 2023.
“Daguerreotypes in the Heart of the Andes: Photography, Landscape, and Extraction” in Photography in its Environment, Photographic History Research Centre, DeMonfort University, 12 - 13 June 2023.
“Epifanio Garay: promiscuidad, fotografía y arte académico en Colombia en el siglo XIX”. Presented at the 2019 Symposium “Colombia, siglo XIX, viajes intercambios y otras formas de circulación 1819 - 2019”, 2019, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
“Daguerian Excursions: Public space and emancipation in the work of Adolphe Duperly” Presented at Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes, 2019, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
“Surface Matters: Beatriz González and the birth of photojournalism in Colombia”. CAA Conference, New York City, 2017. Panel: Photography undone: Contemporary Reflections on the Medium in Latin America. Chairs: Natalia Brizuela, Jodi Roberts.
Publications
“Daguerreotypes in the South at New York Prices: A Paper Archaeology of John Armstrong Bennet”. Lucero, 27(1), 2024.
Entre-ríos. Del Páramo de Berlín a la Represa del Sogamoso. Bucaramanga, Colombia, julio 2019. Blackmore, L and Dominguez, M. Ed. Essex University, 2021.
“Quintilio Gavassa: Fotografía profesional del siglo diecinueve” in Revista Credencial: Coleccionar el siglo XIX, 2021.
“Demetrio Paredes: el connoisseur y el objeto fotográfico” in Cuadernos de Curaduría n. 16. Bogotá: Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2020.
“Beatriz González: Surface Matters” in Brizuela, N and Roberts, J. The Matter of photography in the Americas. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2018.
“Excursiones Daguerrianas en Jamaica: Espacio público y emancipación en las imágenes de Adolphe Duperly”. In: Solano, J. and Rosauro, Ed. Lámparas de mil bujías. Fotografía y arte en América Latina desde 1839. Madrid: REVLAT, 2018.
“Capturing the 19th Century Caribbean - Photographs by whom and for whom? / Capturando el Caribe del siglo XIX: Fotografías ¿por quién y para quién?” Cisneros Collection, 2017.
Other activities and roles
Co-convenor with Rory O’Bryen of the Cross-Faculty series ‘Conversations of Photography’ 2023-2024 funded by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Co-convenor with Ana Lucía Martínez of the Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars 2023-2024 Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Supervising Sp13 Contemporary Latin American Culture
