Mette Sandbye

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• 1990 MA in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Cultural Communication, Univ. of Copenhagen. MA thesis: American Staged Photography.
• 1999   Ph.d. degree, dissertation: ”Memorials. Time, memory, and narrative in contemporary photobased art”.
• 1999-2000   Post doc scholar at the interdisciplinary research project “Reality, Realism, The Real in Contemporary Visual Media and Art”, Aarhus University.
• 2001-2004  Assistant Professor at The Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen.
• Since 2005 Associate Professor and Head of the Study Programme (2004-2007), same place.
• Since 1995 Art critic at Weekendavisen.
• Spring 2007  6 months visiting scholar at Northwestern University, Chicago
• Autumn 2010 3 months visiting scholar at Waseda University, Tokyo
• 2012-2020  Head of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• Autumn 2021 3 months visiting professor, University of Oxford, The Department of The History of Art
• Since 2015 Professor of Photography Studies

Other positions:

- Editor of Dansk Fotografihistorie (The History of Danish Photography). Gyldendal 2004. (The first national history of photography).

- External Examiner at Danish Universities.

- Chair of ”The Nordic Network of The History and Aesthetics of Photography” 2003-2007

- External Examiner in Visual Culture and Theory at London College of Printing, The London Institute, now University of the Arts London, 2001-2005 and at IADT, Dublin, 2018-2020.

- Board member of the scholarship section, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenborg, Sweden, 2002-2003.

- Committee member for the Hasselblad Award 2010.

- External Examiner at The School of Photography, University of Gothenborg, Sweden, 2002-2004.

- Member of the Committee for Visual Arts, Danish Arts Council, 2007-2011.

- Committee member, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2017-2020.

- Committee member, cultural heritage program of the Augustinus Foundation, 2021

 

Selected publications in English:

-Symbolic Imprints. Photography and Visual Culture. Ed. Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Rune Gade, Mette Sandbye. Aarhus Univ. Press, 1999.

- “Performing the Everyday. Two Danish Photo-Books from the ‘70s”. In Performative Realism , Rune Gade og Anne Jerslev (eds.), Museum Tusculanum Press, Cph. 2005.

- “Making Visible: Thoughts on the First Danish History of Photography”. Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift, vol. 74. no. 2, 2005, Routledge.

- “Making Pictures Talk. The re-opening of ‘a dead city’ through vernacular photography as a catalyst for the performance of memories”. In Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade (eds.): Re-investing Authenticity. Tourism, Place & Emotions, Tourism and Cultural Change Book Series, Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2010.

- “The Family Photo Album as Transformed Social Space in the Age of ‘Web 2.0’”. In Throughout (ed. Ulrik Ekman), MIT Press, 2013.

- “Emotive Templates: The Family Photo Album and Its Presentation of the Good Life”. In Amerika og det gode liv, 1950-70. Materiel kultur i Skandinavien i 1950’erne og 1960’erne (eds. Dorte Gert Simonsen and Iben Vyff), Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2011.

- “It has not been – it is. The signaletic transformation of photography”, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, CoAction Publishing, 2012.

- “Performing and Deforming the Family Archive”. In Performing Archives (eds. Gunhild Borggreen and Rune Gade), Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013.

- Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography. I.B. Tauris, London 2014. International Library of Visual Culture, vol. 7. Eds. Sandbye, M & Larsen.

- “Blasting the Language of Colonialism : Three Contemporary Photo-Books on Greenland”. KULT - Postkolonial Temaserie, Vol. 14 (New Narratives on the Postcolonial Arctic), 2016.

- “A Farewell to the Family Album? and Case Study on the Cultural History of Wedding Photography”, in M. Neumüller (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture, Routledge, 2018.

- “Selfies and Purikura as Affective, Aesthetic Labour”, in J. Eckel, J. Ruchatz, S. Wirth (eds.): Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography, Springer International Publishing, 2018.

- "New Mixtures: Migration, War and Cultural Differences in Contemporary Art-Documentary Photography" 2018, I : Photographies 11, 2-3, 2018.