A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast with Dr. Prita Meier

Prita Meier will discuss her new book, The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast, which repositions Africa’s islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories, showing how people in the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as both oppression and freedom. Her talk will focus on the book’s broader aim to question conventional ideas about the relationship between territory, visual form and identity in art history.