Visuals of violence with Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck
In this episode, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, talk about the challenges of visual representation. They discuss the visuals of violence and the viewers’ responsibility and interrogate different ways of dealing with photography produced in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Sealy and Kaleck thereby try to answer the question: How do we deploy these images… and to what purpose?
This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts.
Biography
Dr Mark Sealy, Executive Director of Autograph ABP (1991) and Principal Research Fellow: Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London (University Arts London). Sealy is a core member of the Photography Archive Research Centre at London College of Communication. He is interested in the relationship between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.
Photo Credit
© Steve Pyke