In this episode, Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary University of London, Kim Wagner, speaks to historian Daniel Foliard, author of The violence of colonial photography. They discuss the inescapability of photographs of war and violence in modern media, and how a photograph at the right time still has the capacity to shock and to move us.
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the first mass-produced cameras became available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and project an image of supremacy across the world.
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