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Vera Tamar Bakker (Photographer, African Studies)

I hold a BA in Social Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, and an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from University of Leiden. For my MA I conducted fieldwork in Ghana on the definitions of youth among young educated people and change of gender relations in the Asante region. Currently I am finishing my MA in African Studies, for which I did fieldwork in Cameroon on the history and role of photography in the North West of Cameroon. My interests lie in visual anthropology, visual culture, processes of identity forming, modes of belonging, mobility, and (new) social media.

Benedicta: photography as performative act of remembering

A forthcoming project on the visual biography of the Cameroonian feminist…


by Walter Nkwi (Historian & Anthropologist), Vera Tamar Bakker (Photographer & African Studies)

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