Parnian Ferdossi

DPhil Geography and the Environment, 2026

Parnian is a researcher working across photographic geographies, digital humanities and visual archives. Her DPhil in Geography and the Environment, supervised by Professor Gillian Rose and Professor Kathryn Eccles, will explore how visual deep mapping and methods of re-archivisation can reveal micro-spatial relations within dispersed photographic archives.

She has worked with photographic collections at the Warburg Institute and the Royal Geographical Society. Trained in photography at the University of Tehran and Goldsmiths University of London, she worked for the BBC World Service before teaching at Birkbeck University and the University of the Arts London.