Dr Timothy Daly
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Tim Daly teaches photography and artists' publishing at the University of Chester and has been an active documentary photography practitioner since 1987. Starting in Further Education, Daly developed a keen interest in curriculum design, programme development and collaborative partnerships. Since joining UoC, he has contributed to the development and management of transnational provision with private providers in Florence and Singapore working under dual UK and overseas quality assurance agencies. Daly has extensive experience as an external examiner and academic advisor for undergraduate and post graduate programmes in photography and art & design for a wide range of UK HEIs and their international partners. Tim Daly's documentary photography has been published, collected and exhibited widely at venues in the UK and Europe including The Photographers' Gallery, London; Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin; The Musuem of London and The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. Since 2000, Tim Daly has written practice-engaging photography learning material for book and magazine publishers in the UK, US, Europe and Australia and his undergraduate textbooks have been translated into French, German, Portuguese and Mandarin.
Teaching and Supervision
Tim Daly teaches digital and analogue photography and artists publishing process, production and project development across undergraduate programmes. Tim also supervises and examines postgraduate research internally and externally.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Tim Daly has a research interest in the ‘thingness’ of photography and the materiality of the photographic print. His artist’s books explore touch and disruptive sequencing using unconventional formats such as the dossier and folio to provide an enhanced, haptic reading experience. Since 1987, Daly has worked on a cluster of themes including institutional architecture and social housing, the Plotlands movement, do-it-yourself culture, leisure pastimes and tourism. His academic research includes authored books, chapters in edited books, papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference contributions. In addition, Daly's creative works include documentary studies, an image database, artist’s books and exhibitions of these at regional, national and international venues. His research has an interdisciplinary reach and has been presented within architecture, heritage and visual anthropology contexts. For over thirty years, Daly has been documenting Plotlands-era houses and chalets and their vernacular construction methods. Originally built during the interwar period and situated on coastal strips and in river valleys, few estates from that period still remain. In 2021, Daly established an online visual database called The Plotlands Archive - a celebration of resourcefulness, creativity and character, recording the many unique materials used and vernacular design largely unseen within urban housing developments.