comment 0

Visual repatriation: creating a present for the past

*Switch language to french for french version of the article*

        As Elizabeth Edwards has argued, visual repatriation visual repatriation is, in many ways, about finding a present for historical photographs, realising their ‘potential to seed a number of narratives’ through which to make sense of that past in the present and make it fulfil the needs of the present.”1 Edwards explains how visual repatriation visual repatriation is first a way for both Indigenous people and collections holders to shed light on groups of photographs, usually taken in the 19th and 20th centuries, and try to get information about these photographs. More importantly, visual repatriation visual repatriation can be said to allow one to generate narratives which bridge the gap between past and present. Read More