Tina Campt

Tina Campt, a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archaeology and Visual Arts Program at Princeton University, and Director of the Princeton Atelier at the Lewis Center for the Arts. She is the lead convener of the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics and the Practicing Refusal Collective, and the recipient of the 2025 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute for distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology and photography. She is the author of four books: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University Michigan Press, 2004), Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012), Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017), and most recently, A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021). Her co-edited collection, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis, Steidl, 2020) was named Photography Catalogue of the Year by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. 

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This lecture is presented by the RISD Photography Department.