Rate My Professor Chloe Bartram

Chloe Bartram is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, where she also serves as a sessional HASS tutor. Her academic journey began with a Bachelor of Photography, majoring in Photojournalism with minors in Documentary Practice and Text Journalism, from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2013, followed by a Bachelor of Photography with First Class Honours from the same institution in 2014. She furthered her studies with a Graduate Certificate in Human Rights from Curtin University in 2016 and commenced her PhD at Murdoch University in 2020. Bartram's research explores source material relating to the 1922 solar eclipse, delving into the tension between the photographic image as art and evidence, as showcased in her project Capturing Starlight.

Bartram has received numerous awards and fellowships recognizing her contributions to photography and historical research, including the Geoffrey Bolton History Grant from Murdoch University in 2025, the JS Battye Fellowship from the State Library of Western Australia in 2022, and the Jill Bradshaw Scholarship from Graduate Women Western Australia in 2021. Other accolades encompass finalist positions in the Melville Art Awards and Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards in 2024, shortlists in the Australian Photography Awards in 2023 and 2024, and earlier honors such as the finalist spot in the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award in 2014 and third place in Professional Arts & Culture at the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards. Her work has been exhibited extensively internationally and nationally, with solo and group shows including Capturing Starlight at the Perth Centre for Photography, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, and Western Australian Maritime Museum in 2023-2024, as well as at the Pingyao International Photo Festival in 2025. Additional exhibitions feature Darkness at Lowry Building, Manchester Metropolitan University in 2026, and Celestia at Promenade Gallery, Abu Dhabi in 2026. As a founding member of Lumina Collective, she has contributed to group exhibitions across Australia and abroad, such as Women by Women in multiple venues in 2018. Her photographs have appeared in publications like Photo Collective Magazine Issue 002 in 2022. Bartram presented at the Haunted Archives of Livingness conference in 2025 and provided photography for Murdoch University's art collection blog.