photoCLEC

 

Photographs are probably the most ubiquitous and far reaching records of the colonial past. They trace the experiences of a vast range of people touched by European colonial expansion and domination, both colonised and colonialisers.

How is this record understood in public histories ? What is its role in the way contemporary European cultures configure their pasts for the benefit of their futures ?

This website explores the different ways in which photographs from the colonial past have been used by museums, as spaces of public history, to communicate and interpret the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural Europe. 

http://photoclec.dmu.ac.uk/content/home