A blog on Visual Repatriation

This is a weblog under construction, to be dedicated to the fascinating practices and philosophies of “visual repatriation”. In short: Historical photographs, often made with ethnographic purposes, being ‘returned’ to the original sites of production, or, more important, becoming available to the people, either biologically or culturally affiliated with the subjects shown in the pictures. Starting from 2008, Christoph Rippe (MA Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University 2007) and Taco Hidde Bakker (MA Photographic Studies, Leiden University 2007) will regularly write short essays, pose challenging questions and update images and texts on several projects they work on or find interesting, besides submitting links to past and present visual repatriation projects.