Essay by Drew Thompson Featured in PhotoBook Awards by Paris Photo and Aperture
Drew Thompson, associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center.
An essay by Drew Thompson, associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center, appeared in a book featured in the Paris Photo–Aperture 2025 PhotoBook Awards, an annual celebration of the photobook medium’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. Thompson’s essay, “Envisioning Liberation: A Brief History of PhotoBooks in Mozambique,” appeared in the book Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements, an anthology that examines the importance of visual culture in anticolonial struggles. The book is a critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements for independence in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s. “The history of photobooks looks different from the vantage point of the African continent,” Thompson writes in his essay.
The Bard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events.
Post Date: 11-24-2025
The Bard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events.
Post Date: 11-24-2025