![]() ![]() In this special masterclass with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay we are invited to unlearn imperial violence that is reproduced through ways of seeing that ask us to engage with others through abusive categories such as ‘’refugees’’ ‘’undocumented migrants’’ and ‘’stateless’’. ![]() Although many photographers might think they are performing activist work, many tend not to question the regimes that grant them the right to see, show and display what does not belong to us in the first place. They visually record faces and losses and destruction without questioning their right to document these worlds and claim ownership of those photographs. ![]() This mode of imperial thinking and being in the world provided photography and photographers the right to travel to faraway places and record lives and words that are not ours. Imperialism divided the world into parts where some of us – depending on our location -can appropriate the lives, words, objects, and desires of others while at the same time the latter have no right to claim rights. Is photography a product of imperialism? Ariella Aïsha Azoulay radically challenges the origins of photography commonly placed in the early 1830’s and invites us to imagine photography’s origin back displaced to 1492. ![]()
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