12 December 2024 Thursday
18:00–20:00 (UTC+3)
Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building
Papa Roncalli Street, No:128, Harbiye, Şişli/İstanbul
Expatriation photographs were taken between 1896-1908 to prevent the return of Ottoman Armenians emigrating from the empire. What can these photographs tell us today? In this talk Zeynep Gürsel will share some of what she has learned from a decade of researching these extraordinary photographs and looking at them together with other archives and many individuals.
- The panel will be an in-person event.
- The language of the event is Turkish.
- The duration of the event is 2 hours.
- Please fill out the registration form.
Zeynep Gürsel
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel is a media anthropologist and Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the author of Image Brokers: Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation (University of California Press, 2016), an ethnography of the international photojournalism industry in the 21st century. She is also the director of Coffee Futures, an award-winning ethnographic film that explores contemporary Turkish politics through the prism of the everyday practice of coffee fortune telling. She has written on international news images, medical photography prison portraiture and state practices of visualizing their subjects. She has also researched historical photography, specifically photography and citizenship in both the Ottoman empire and late 19th century France.
