Ali Campbell, a third-year combined major in political science and international affairs, captured life in Rwanda last year, taking hundreds of photos as part of her ongoing research project to examine the visual representations of genocide and the politics of memory. She is working with Natalie Bormann, an associate teaching professor of political science who studies trauma, memory, and identity in global politics with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
“I’m deeply passionate about the role of photography in illuminating personal contexts,” says Ali Campbell, SSH’17.
Nowhere is this more evident than in her new collection of portraits and landscapes of post-genocide Rwanda. Here is a smiling boy, clothed in a mud-caked T-shirt emblazoned with the Superman shield. There is ablack-and-white spotted cow in a patch of tangled shrubbery, the lone animal in a vast expanse of farmland.
Campbell, a third-year combined major in political science and international affairs, captured life in Rwanda last year, taking hundreds of photos as part of her ongoing research project to examine the visual representations of genocide and the politics of memory. She is working with Natalie Bormann, an associate teaching professor of political science who studies trauma, memory, and identity in global politics with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
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