Beyond the Battlefields Käthe Buchler's Photographs of Germany in the Great War

Käthe Buchler (1876-1930) was a German photographer living and working in Braunschweig, whose pictures captured the lives of a diverse array of German people before, during and after the First World War. Her work includes the use of the earliest form of colour photography. Sarah Lloyd is Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire and Director of Everyday Lives in War: First World War Engagement Centre. She has two main strands of research. Over the last few years she has worked on community histories of Hertfordshire and is currently leading an AHRC-funded Centre designed to connect academic and public histories of the First World War. She also has a long-established interest in the histories of charity and poverty in Britain during the long 18th century. Matthew Shaul is Director at Departure Lounge - a contemporary photographic gallery in Luton. He was formerly Artistic Director at the University of Hertfordshire Galleries. His most prominent curatorial project to-date was 'Do Not Refreeze' a major survey of the documentary photography produced in the former East Germany. He has written/edited and published exhibition catalogues for publishers like Dewi Lewis and Passagen Verlag (Germany).