When You are Critical Mass

Tina Campt is the Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She holds a joint appointment between the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts. She is a founding researcher of Black European studies, as well as the lead convenor of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Campt has published five books—Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004); Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012); Listening to Images (2017); Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis, 2020), and A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (2021). Campt was also recipient of the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation.