Elizabeth Breiner
Elizabeth Breiner is a writer, editor, and curator with a specialisation in photography. She oversees FA’s public programme and supports the team editorially. Ongoing academic and curatorial work has addressed the slippery status of the documentary image and the challenges of researching and representing discreet forms of violence. Previous exhibitions investigated the relationship between protest, performance, and the Turkish state propaganda machine, and the entwined histories of criminology and criminal portraiture as a means of understanding the destructive scope of modern digital punishment and other engrained biases in the American criminal justice system.
She has worked across the arts and cultural sectors in the UK and abroad, written for a number of international publications, and curated exhibitions for institutions including Apexart, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and Benrubi Gallery. She holds an MA from University College London and undergraduate degrees in English and the History of Art from Vassar College and Birkbeck University.
- investigations
- The Massacre of Aid Workers in Tel al-Sultan
- Three Days at Al-Azhar University: 28-30 January 2024
- The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation
- The Environmental Continuum of Genocide in Namibia
- Shoot Me, I Bare My Chest: The Killing of Abu Sayed
- Return to al-Ma'in
- The Massacre at Tur Al-Zagh: Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
- Israel's Destruction of the Port of Gaza
- The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design
- A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023
- 'When it Stopped Being a War': The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Swakopmund
- Chemical Fire at Marathon Refinery
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Shark Island
- The Killing of Hind Rajab
- The Grenfell Tower Fire: Situated Testimonies
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: The Hornkranz Massacre
- ‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024
- Humanitarian Violence in Gaza
- The Murder of June Knightly
- Israeli Disinformation: al-Ahli Hospital
- Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
- Destruction of Medical Infrastructure in Gaza
- The Killing of Dilan Cruz
- The Pylos Shipwreck
- Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948
- The Nebelivka Hypothesis
- 'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland
- A City Within a Building: The Mariupol Drama Theatre
- Fire in Moria Refugee Camp
- The Beirut Port Explosion: Destruction of Destruction
- The Beirut Port Explosion: The Welders
- Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia
- Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist
- The Raid on Al-Haq's Offices: 18 August 2022
- Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
- Sheikh Jarrah: Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem
- Russian Strike on the Kyiv TV Tower
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation
- The Shelling of Khudair Warehouse: Chemical Warfare by Indirect Means
- Living Archaeology in Gaza
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The Case of Parvin
- The Forest Under Detection
- Dispossession and The Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia
- The Black Boxes of Disappearance: Enforced Disappearance in the Siege of the Palace of Justice
- The Murder of Lucas Villa
- Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
- Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
- European Arms in the Bombing of Yemen
- Torture and Detention in Myanmar
- The Extrajudicial Execution of Ahmad Erekat
- Cloud Studies
- publications
- Gaza Atlas
- Forensics Is What the State Does, Counter-Forensics Is What We Do: Nour Abuzaid, Elizabeth Breiner, and Eyal Weizman in Conversation
- Agata Nguyen Chuong, Isabella Parlamis, and Elizabeth Breiner, A Counter-Archive of the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide, Pina Magazine, Issue #2
- Forensic Architecture Reports #1: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan