Michelle Q Hamers photo historian & producer
CURRENTLY:
In October 2015 I started as a part-time PhD Candidate at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/art-design-humanities/phrc/photographic-history-research-centre-phrc.aspx
The UNRWA archive at Fotostudio De Jong (VPRO), 19 March 2015 [Dutch].
See clip below or visit: http://www.npo.nl/fotostudio-de-jong/19-03-2015/VPWON_1236160
I currently work as Archive Project Coordinator at the audiovisual archive on Palestine refugees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem. For more information, please visit: http://www.unrwa.org/content/unrwa-photo-and-film-archive-palestine-refugees
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A new book on the Khmer Rouge photo archive was published in April 2014: Archiving the Unspeakable. Author Michelle Caswell has done great research and I am thankful for being able to meet her and share thoughts on the Cambodian archive.
PREVIOUSLY:
Project manager for the 19.45 - 20.15 photo project assigned by the Amsterdam 4 and 5 May Committee.
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Multimedia producer for the Status: Undocumented project on migration in Europe by documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser. See dirkjanvisser.com
© Dirk-Jan Visser
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Volunteer for Rotterdams Ongedocumenteerden Steunpunt (Organisation to support Undocumented Migrants). For more information check www.stichtingros.nl
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Ongoing research on the Khmer Rouge photo archive and the relationship between autoritarian violence and photography.
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Project manager of The Rise of Populism: a project by young European photographers in collaboration with FOTODOK Utrecht. For more information check www.fotodok.org
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Guest curator for photo exhibition Kijk... Hilversum! (15 June - 21 September 2013) at Museum Hilversum. For more information check www.museumhilversum.nl
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21/05/13 The multimedia production In Conakry They Called Me Princess was Winner Multimedia in ANTHROPOGRAPHIA AWARD Human Rights Through Visual Storytelling. Check www.anthropographia.org
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Organized the Vrijheidsmaaltijd 2013 and the event at the Dam within the framework of the Bevrijdingsfestivals Amsterdam // 4 & 5 mei comité & Partizan Publik. For more information check www.4en5meiamsterdam.nl
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Presented my research on the Khmer Rouge photographic archive at the Journal of Genocide Research Workshop on 30 November 2012 in London.
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The first presentation of The Rise of Populism took place in September 2012 during the International Day of Peace in Utrecht.
Get-together on The Rise of Populism
Exhibition
The Rise of Populism
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Interpreting & translating for French documentary filmmaker Annick Redolfi (France 5). Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels. February – May 2012.
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Photo historical research for Museum Hilversum (disclosure of their photo archive & concept development). December 2011 – February 2012.
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The multimedia production In Conakry They Called Me Princess was on display at Humanity House, The Hague, from 21 September 2011 until 18 December 2011. This multimedia was initiated by documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser within the framework of his Status: Undocumented project on illegal migrants in Europe.