Workshop venue: Museum Folkwang, Essen and Duisburg-Essen University
Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky (Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg University) and Kerstin Meincke (Studies in Photography Theory, Duisburg-Essen University) organize the workshop ‚(Post) colonial archives and photography in Africa and South Asia’. It will take place at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and at Duisburg-Essen University on June 23-25, 2016.
The workshop is the first of two workshops that are held as part of the cooperative seminar ‘Cultures of Photography‘ which is organised by Cathrine Bublatzky and Kerstin Meincke in the summer semester 2016. The second workshop ‘Urban Spaces of Emancipation and Independence ‘ will take place at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) on July 15 – 16, 2016.
Kindly take note that the workshop is only open to participants of the seminar ‘Cultures of Photography’ invited guests.
The engagement with ‘foreign archives’ and the specific insights from such engagement present a challenge, both methodologically and practically, which the participants in the seminar ‘Cultures of Photography’ will explore. The seminar uses a time frame stretching from colonial history to post-colonialism and with an emphasis on photographic culture(s) of South/East Asia (e.g. India) on the one hand and Africa (e.g.) Nigeria on the other hand. Along its regional focus the seminar offers a comparison which explicitly applies a South-South axis and considers for example common political histories of being former (British) colonies. Which developments have taken place in photographic practice in both contexts since the end of the 19th century? Which influence did the colonial occupation have on media usage in the respective countries? How was photography established as an artistic form of expression? Which are the specific cultural particularities in the respective countries? Which photographic archives have been produced and how is such visual heritage handled? And what are the main topics and practices photographers engage with?
Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky (Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg University) and Kerstin Meincke (Studies in Photography Theory, Duisburg-Essen University) organize the workshop ‚(Post) colonial archives and photography in Africa and South Asia’. It will take place at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and at Duisburg-Essen University on June 23-25, 2016.
The workshop is the first of two workshops that are held as part of the cooperative seminar ‘Cultures of Photography‘ which is organised by Cathrine Bublatzky and Kerstin Meincke in the summer semester 2016. The second workshop ‘Urban Spaces of Emancipation and Independence ‘ will take place at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) on July 15 – 16, 2016.
Kindly take note that the workshop is only open to participants of the seminar ‘Cultures of Photography’ invited guests.
Seminar concept:
In the past there has been a divide between the global North and the global South regarding photographic research. Nevertheless, recent developments indicate a growing acknowledgment of separate ‘histories of photography’, which originated from this divide considering their particular social usage, artistic form of expression, and aesthetics.The engagement with ‘foreign archives’ and the specific insights from such engagement present a challenge, both methodologically and practically, which the participants in the seminar ‘Cultures of Photography’ will explore. The seminar uses a time frame stretching from colonial history to post-colonialism and with an emphasis on photographic culture(s) of South/East Asia (e.g. India) on the one hand and Africa (e.g.) Nigeria on the other hand. Along its regional focus the seminar offers a comparison which explicitly applies a South-South axis and considers for example common political histories of being former (British) colonies. Which developments have taken place in photographic practice in both contexts since the end of the 19th century? Which influence did the colonial occupation have on media usage in the respective countries? How was photography established as an artistic form of expression? Which are the specific cultural particularities in the respective countries? Which photographic archives have been produced and how is such visual heritage handled? And what are the main topics and practices photographers engage with?