Decolonising Female Missionary Photography

我的研究将通过研究在非洲工作的英国女传教士拍摄的照片，为去殖民化女权主义艺术史做出贡献。欧洲的传教士摄影档案构成了19世纪晚期殖民地遭遇的最大的视觉收藏之一，然而奇怪的是，在摄影史中仍然没有女传教士的照片。女性的工作;和殖民主义。从去殖民主义的角度来看，我的研究将考察女性传教士摄影如何通过调动福音派情绪，为殖民主义的差异意识形态赋予审美形态，同时为她们作为欧洲女性创造了一个代理空间。在研究女传教士的照片时，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照片：爱丽丝·西利·哈里斯、丽贝卡·韦勒姆、玛丽·斯莱索和梅贝尔·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