Reading a Photographic Archive from Indian Ocean Africa: Capital Art Studio in Stone Town, Zanzibar

WiSER invites you to a seminar:  Reading a Photographic Archive from Indian Ocean Africa: Capital Art Studio in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

This joint presentation by Meg Samuelson (UCT) and Pamila Gupta (WiSER) reads a photographic archive compiled over 82 years by Ranchod Oza and his son, Rohit, in Capital Art Studio, Stone Town, Zanzibar. It is particularly interested in exploring the ways in which their accumulative framing of everyday life and construction of iconic ‘Zanzibar views’ inter-articulate with the current heritage project that seeks to attract tourism to the island and which secured Stone Town’s listing as a Unesco world heritage site in 2000.  This archive might also be read as negotiating the fraught interface between the Indian Ocean world and continental Africa.

Time:   Tuesday, 23rd July 2013, 1:15pm