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Contributors
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#60: Unknown photographer Comprador, assistant comprador and Chinese bookkeeper c 1935 |
Contributors as listed in 2014 - with updates on known 2025 career information
Gael Newton AM:
2014: Gael was Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Australia. She was the curator of the exhibition Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s–1940s.
2025: Gael left the National Gallery in 2014 and continues as a researcher, writer and advisor - as well as a recognised valuer for the Australian Government's cultural gift program.
Matt Cox:
2014: Matt was Assistant Curator, Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and a PhD candidate at University of Sydney. His thesis is ‘The Javanese self in portraiture from 1880–1950’.
2025: Matt is Senior Curator & Artist Liaison, Tilt Industrial Design
Vigen Galstyan
2014: Vigen was completing a dissertation at the University of Sydney on ‘the role of Armenian photographers of the Middle East in the construction of Oriental identity, 1860–1900’.
2025: PhD, Curator, Art Historian Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Anneke Groeneveld
2014: was Conservator, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam. She is an internationally recognised specialist in Netherlands East Indies photography.
2025: Anneke retired in 2018
Annabelle Lacour
2024: is completing a masters at the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, on photo books of Bali.
2025: Annabelle is the curator of the photographic collection at musée du quai Branly-Jacques-Chirac, Paris
Dr Anne Maxwell
2014: Anne was Associate Professor, English Program, School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne.
2025: Anne is now Honorary Professor, School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne.
Anne O’Hehir
Anne is Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Australia, and contributor to many Gallery exhibitions and publications.
Dr Susie Protschky
2014: Lecturer in Modern History, Monash University, Melbourne. She specialises in the colonial Indonesia, with a focus on visual culture and photography.
2025: Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexander Supartono
2014: Alexander was a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, researching the historical and cultural (re)contextualisation of photographic representations of the Sugar Industry in colonial Java.
2025: Alexander is Programme Leader MSc Creative Advertising, Edinburgh Napier University. History and Theory of Photography, Visual Culture, and Modern and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia.
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