About the Speakers

Marie Robert is Head Curator of Photography at the Musée d’Orsay. She has organized over a dozen exhibitions from the museum’s collection, taking a socio-historical approach to the content. Her research and published articles focus on women’s place in the history of photography, along with the interconnections between photography and other forms of media.

Luce Lebart is a photography historian, curator, and researcher for the Archive of Modern Conflict collection. Her research focuses on images and practices that have remained in the shadow of history. She is the author of numerous books and exhibitions involving photographs produced without artistic intent, archives, and scientific and documentary photography.

Maria Kapajeva is an artist who works between the United Kingdom and Estonia. Her work often explores a diverse spectrum of cultural identity and gender issues within historical and contemporary contexts. Focusing on women’s position in contemporary society, she aims to question how identities are formed via the subconscious effects of advertising, movies, and popular media through research-based work.

Dr. Ileana L. Selejan is a research fellow with the Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts London. At University College London, she is part of the European Research Council-funded project Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination. Her research investigates Nicaraguan citizens’ engagement with politics through photography, and how photographs are circulated across the public sphere.