We live with and through images. For nearly two centuries, they’ve shaped our relationship to truth, belief, evidence, and each other — and we have, mostly, trusted them. This eight-part online lecture series explores how that trust was built, how it operates, and what it means to inhabit a world where it is coming undone. Moving from 19th–century colonial archives to contemporary image cultures, it traces photography’s evolving role as an instrument of power, a container of memory, a medium of community, and — increasingly — a site of suspicion.
Ji ta Newa Bhyaa Mawa (I don’t know my Mother Tongue); Jyoti Shrestha. Excerpted from “Decoding Photographic Language Through the Body Archive”, presented by Anshika Varma.
