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GermanSudanese Project Reframes Riefenstahl’s Nuba Photos, Delivers Digital Copies to Nuba Council

Findings go online with access shaped by Nuba representatives.

Overview

  • Researchers publish a website presenting Nuba perspectives and situating the images within colonial and racist power relations.
  • The work draws on roughly 10,000 motifs—about 40,000 slides including duplicates—of which only a fraction had previously been published.
  • Digitized photographs and videos are transferred to the Pan Nuba Rat to enable Nuba-led research and decisions on future use.
  • Holding institutions forgo mass online release and will grant access on request for research to align with community interests.
  • An exhibition for Nuba diaspora was held in Kampala due to the war in Sudan, and a student-curated show opens May 22 at Berlin’s Museum für Fotografie.