Photographs offer a colonialist window to the past – one that must be challenged | Aeon Videos

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s worldview was shaped by the complexities of growing up and rejecting Israeli citizenship and the settler colonial identity’ that she had been assigned.

Now a writer, art curator and professor of comparative literature and modern culture and media at Brown University , she works to reframe the past to challenge concepts of knowledge, art, history and human rights as they've been framed by imperialism.