Tina Campt in conversation with Owen Martin
26 Apr, 13:00 — 14:00
Senior Curator Owen Martin in conversation with Tina Campt, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, on the occasion of Frida Orupabos exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence
The conversation is included in the entry fee to the exhibition. Free for members.
Tina M. Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and 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 Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project, as well as a founding scholar of Black European Studies. Campt has published five books including A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021); Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017); Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012); and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press, 2004). She received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation for her co-edited collection, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis, Steidl, 2020) and the 2024 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute for distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology and photography.
