Women and Photography in Africa (ePub)

Darren Newbury is Professor of Photographic History and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Arts and Humanities) at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa (2009) and People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine (2013); and co-editor of The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (2015) with Christopher Morton, and a Special Issue of Visual Studies on 'Photography and African Futures' (2017) with Richard Vokes. He was editor of the international journal Visual Studies from 2003 to 2015, and has curated exhibitions at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and District Six Museum, Cape Town.

Lorena Rizzo is an associate researcher and lecturer in the Center for African Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland). She has widely published on Namibian and South African visual and gender history. She is currently finalizing a book entitled Shades of Empire: Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa (forthcoming Routledge).

Kylie Thomas is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. She is the author of Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid (Bucknell University Press & Wits University Press, 2014) and co-editor, with Louise Green, of Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with Difference (Routledge, 2016).