Talks on Camera

Blink and you’ll miss me in Selling a Colonial War (Dir. In-Soo Radstake, Holland Harbour, 2023) (see the trailer here, IDFA premiére here)

Colonial Pasts and Image Wars, 20th Annual History Council of Victoria Lecture (YouTube, 25 October 2023).

On Photography and War: Decolonisation in Southeast Asia for the National Gallery of Singapore (YouTube, 13 April 2023)

On Soldiers as Humanitarians in Dutch Photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution (YouTube, 6 December 2016)

Recent Lectures and Seminars

‘Burdens of proof: Photographic evidence and contested pasts’, The Asian Arts Society of Australia, 2 June 2025.

‘The politics of trauma and the limits of decolonisation’, PULSE Medical and Health Humanities Network,  University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam, 27 February 2025.

‘Trophy photographs and colonial wars in Indonesia, c. 1870s-1950’, Seminari d’Història del Món GRIMSE-ECERM, Departament d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, 19 February 2025.

‘Colonial pasts and image wars’, Annual History Council of Victoria Lecture, 25 October 2023

‘Photography and War’, National Gallery of Singapore, 16 April 2023.

‘Dutch soldier photography during the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–50) in context: Rethinking histories of colonialism and military violence’, NIOD Image Lab ‘History’s Darkroom’ Series, Hosted by NIOD and RCMC, Netherlands, 1 September 2022.

‘Late starters: The post-colonial afterlives of war photographs from Indonesia and neglected histories of colonial violence’, Photo-Sensible: Historians, Archives and the Dissemination of Controversial Photographs in the Digital Age, EyCon Project, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 9-10 June 2022.