Judith Riemer

Judith Riemer is a photo historian and a postdoctoral researcher in the History of Art department at University College Cork. She received her Ph.D. in Theory and History of Photography from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, for her dissertation on design strategies in photo albums of German artists from the 1920s and 1930s.

She was a Research Fellow at Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden, Germany, working on a project that culminated in the monograph Deutsche Arbeit. Die Karriere des Fotografenpaares Heinrich und Thea Weskamp zwischen 1930 und 1960 [German Labour. The Career of Photographer Couple Heinrich and Thea Weskamp Between 1930 and 1960] (2026). She was a DAAD Postdoc Fellow at University College Cork.

She is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Cork, working on a project examining underwater photography in contemporary art and science in the context of environmental change and human-water relationships. 

History and Theory of Photography; Blue Humanities; Contemporary Art; Modern Art; Visual Arts