Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975

Filipa Lowndes Vicente is a Researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She was a Visiting Professor at Brown University (2016) and at King’s College, University of London (2015). Among her books are Other Orientalisms: India between Florence and Bombay 1860–1900 , published in 2012, and, in 2014, the edited volume O Império da Visão. Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860–1960) [ The Empire of Vision. Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860–1960) ].

Afonso Dias Ramos is a Researcher at the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (2020) and an Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin (2019). He is the co-editor, with Tom Snow, of the book Activism (2023).