Dr. Temi Odumosu wrote the initial outline of the reasoning and decision to form a group that will work in the upcoming project phase on accessibility formats for over 900 photographs from institutions worldwide. One outcome of her text was to review the photographs and to form the working group 'Approaching Colonial Photographs with Care'.
Biography
Dr. Temi Odumosu is an interdisciplinary scholar and curator at University of Washington Information School in Seattle. She is author of the book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017). Her current teaching is in the field of critical information studies, and her research and curatorial interests include archives and African Diasporic memory, digitization of cultural heritage, image ethics, and information justice. Overall, she is focused on the ways art can mediate social transformation and healing.