Cover of personal photo album of Dutch soldier stationed in the Dutcheast Indies during the 1940s ©Susie Protschky
Susie will examine the burdens of proof commonly placed on war photography and images from colonial contexts. She explores the tensions between photographs as ‘evidence’ and the more complex histories of violence and resistance that photography can reveal in historical memory of contested pasts.
SUSIE PROTSCHKY
Susie is Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is an historian of colonialism and visual culture in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on photography. Her research ranges across histories of violence, environment and natural disaster, and gender and race in colonial context.
Soldiers collecting bicycles. ©Susie Protschky
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