The first workshop on the activation of colonial image collections will focus on questions of access: What dimensions of access to photographic images as scientific objects can be negotiated on the basis of photographs taken during colonial ethnographic expeditions? Which forms of circulation (publication, archiving, digitisation) play a central role in this context and what possibilities does the digitisation of photographic collections offer with regard to the restitution and decolonisation of ethnographic collections and archives?

Workshop on the activation of colonial image collections

organised by Petra Löffler

with Jakob Claus, Kea Wienand, Catharina Winzer