Afterlives // Afterimages
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16 Oct
17 Oct
2025
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Criticism and Theory
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Tina M. Campt
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This seminar series is part of the Annual Mona Ahmed Lecture Series - Supported by: Dayanita Singh
This two-part lecture engages two terms at the core of Campt’s current writing: afterlife and afterimage. They are concepts that unsettle how we understand the temporality of the photograph. They are also concepts that photographers activate in creative and compelling ways in relation to the unique power of photographic images to help us grapple with grief and loss. Building on her commitment to attend to the "fugitive registers" of images, and finding within them moments of resistance, resilience, and refusal often overlooked in traditional historical or visual analysis, each lecture engages the work of artists who use photographs as a bridge between the living and the departed in ways the mourn the ongoing presence rather than absence of lost loved ones and community members.
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October 16, 17, 2025
Timing: Lecture: 6:30 - 8:30 pm IST
Fees
Rs. 2,000 (For student discounts registrations kindly email info@jp-india.org)
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Tina M. Campt
Tina M. Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and Director of Atelier at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics and the Practicing Refusal Collective. Campt has published five books including A Black Gaze (2021); Listening to Images (2017); Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012); and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004). She received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation for the co-edited collection, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography and the 2024 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute for distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology and photography.