Ms Melanie Friend

Post:Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies (Centre for Photography and Visual Culture)
Personal homepage:www.melaniefriend.com
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Biography

Melanie Friend worked as a photojournalist & occasional freelance print/radio reporter until moving into long term projects in the 1990s. In the past 20 years she has worked as a documentary photographer/artist, producing exhibitions and publications. Several of these works used a combination of sound & still image. Much of her work has focused directly or indirectly on conflict/war. She is Reader in Photography (part time) in the Department of Media, Film & Music at the University of Sussex.  See melaniefriend.com for more details.

Role

Reader in Photography in the School of Media, Film & Music

Community and Business

Friend is Judge for the FotoDocument Awards 2013 & 2014, and in 2014 was mentor to one of the FotoDocument award winners.

Member of FotoDocument Advisory Panel (2015 onwards).