Decolonising Female Missionary Photography

我的研究将通过对在非洲工作的英国女传教士拍摄的照片的研究，为女权主义艺术史的去殖民化做出贡献。欧洲的传教摄影档案构成了十九世纪末殖民遭遇的最大的视觉收藏之一，然而，传教士妇女的照片和由传教士妇女拍摄的照片仍然奇怪地缺席摄影史;妇女的工作;和殖民主义。从非殖民地的角度来看，我的研究将探讨女性传教士摄影如何通过动员福音派情绪，为殖民地的差异意识形态提供美学形态，同时为自己创造了一个作为欧洲女性的代理空间。在研究女传教士的摄影作品时，我的目标是探索后殖民主义和女权主义方法之间的矛盾，例子将包括1876年至1931年间在刚果、多哥、尼日利亚和赞比亚工作的传教士的图像：爱丽丝塞利哈里斯、丽贝卡韦勒姆、玛丽斯莱特和美宝肖

My research will contribute to decolonising feminist art history through a study of photographs made by Britishfemale missionaries working in Africa. European archives of missionary photography constitute one of the largestvisual collections of the late nineteenth-century colonial encounter yet photographs of and by missionary womenremain strangely absent from histories of photography; women's work; and colonialism. From a decolonialperspective, my research will examine how female missionary photography gave aesthetic shape to colonialideologies of difference by mobilising evangelical sentiment and at the same time created a space of agency forthemselves as European women. In studying photographs by missionary women, I aim to explore contradictionsbetween post-colonial and feminist approaches, examples will include images of and by missionaries working in theCongo, Togo, Nigeria and Zambia between 1876 and 1931: Alice Seeley Harris, Rebecca Wareham, Mary Slessorand Mabel Shaw