Tina Campt es una teórica feminista de la cultura visual y el arte contemporáneo. Su trabajo explora cómo las imágenes y las fotografías sirven como herramientas cruciales para comprender la historia y la identidad. Campt investiga la formación del género, la raza y la diáspora dentro de las comunidades negras, examinando particularmente cómo la cultura visual ayuda en la interpretación del pasado y el presente.
"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists including Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"-- Provided by publisher
Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro- Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.