Pushpamala: A Performative Deconstruction of the Typography of Indigenous Women Through a Postcolonial Lens

By Katja Neef.

Photography has always been a method to record important moments in time while providing accuracy by capturing the subject, its setting, and the surrounding environment. Yet, seen through a postcolonial lens, photography specifically employed by ethnographers and anthropologists in the 1900s was instrumentalised to create the subordinate 'other' by fixating on differences by removing context…