Tina Campt je profesorkou humanitních věd a moderní kultury a médií. Jako feministická teoretička černošské vizuální kultury a současného umění se Campt zabývá tím, jak jsou obrazy a fotografie nástrojem pro pochopení historie a identity. Její práce se zaměřuje na formování genderu, rasy a diaspory v černošských komunitách a na to, jak vizuální kultura pomáhá interpretovat minulost a současnost.
"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists including Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"-- Provided by publisher
Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro- Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.