Bearing Witness or Expressing Dissent? Photography in Communist Romania

Event: NEC Seminar
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
14 October 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Uschi KLEIN, Trust Fellow; Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton
My project interrogates photography’s role as a medium of covert resistance and communicative practice in communist Romania. Through critical reinterpretation of archival photographs from that period, it examines the entanglement of photography, memory, resistance politics, everyday practices and historical imagination, offering both innovative modes of witnessing and critical insights into visuality under authoritarianism.