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Studio Portraiture and the Post-Colonial Archive

5 October 2023 at 18.30–20.00

Installation View, Julianknxx, In Praise of Still Boys 2021 at A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography Tate Modern 2023 © Tate (Lucy Green). Courtesy of the artist.

Join us for an exciting evening of conversation focusing on studio portraiture and the post-colonial archive

You will hear from exhibiting photographers, artists and academics in this discussion chaired by art historian and professor Tamar Garb. Together they will explore the imaginative potential of photographic images, family portraiture, documents and archives through to studio portraiture.

This will be a discursive event followed by audience Q&A.

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