This talk attempts to connect “photography” and “Southeast Asia” through a narrative of local experiences from the colonial era to the period of decolonisation / nation-building. It argues that photographic practices played an important role in shaping the social life, culture and politics of the region that would become Southeast Asia. Photography allowed both the elites and the masses different ways of partaking the processes of identity-making, colonialism and nation-building, amongst others.

【講者簡介About the Speaker】

Zhuang Wubin is a writer who makes photographs, publications and exhibitions. He is interested in photography’s entanglements with modernity, colonialism, nationalism, “Chineseness” and the Cold War in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Zhuang received his PhD by Published Work (Research–Photography) from University of Westminster, London.