Author: Aglaja Kempinski

Aglaja is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. After originally being trained as a cinematographer she completed her Masters in Anthropology of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and is now researching what indigenous film by the Ju/’hoansi San in the Kalahari can tell us about how images and imaginations of the exotic other are navigated and selectively inhabited by those affected. She sometimes tweets about her efforts to come to terms with writing about images at @baaaglaja.

Aglaja Kempinski

Aglaja is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. After originally being trained as a cinematographer she completed her Masters in Anthropology of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and is now researching what indigenous film by the Ju/’hoansi San in the Kalahari can tell us about how images and imaginations of the exotic other are navigated and selectively inhabited by those affected. She sometimes tweets about her efforts to come to terms with writing about images at @baaaglaja.

Thinking Visually Threads

On the flexibility of tattoos

June, 2017 / By Aglaja Kempinski

Thus far in this thread we have discussed images as powerful communicative links between individuals and society around it. In […]

Thinking Visually Threads

How can we talk about our relationship with images?

May, 2017 / By Arek Dakessian, Nichole Fernández and Aglaja Kempinski

Why do images matter? How is it that these assemblages of pixels and ink come to shape not only our