Hanin Hannouch

Dr. Hanin Hannouch is a Research Fellow at the 4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics, hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Institute for Art History). She specializes in the History of Color Photography, Colonial Photography, and Paradigms of Vision, with a focus on German Empire-era visual culture. Her work bridges art history, anthropology, and media studies.

• Education:
  • PhD (2017) from IMT Lucca, Scuola Alti Studi, on Sergei Eisenstein as an art historian
  • International Master Program in Art History and Museology (IMKM) from University of Heidelberg and Ecole du Louvre (2014)
  • Master's and Bachelor's in European Art History from University of Saint-Esprit De Kaslik
• Research Focus:
  • Analysis of Robert Lohmeyer's Dreifarbenphotographie (three-color photography) in colonial contexts
  • Critical examination of 'Tropenphotographie' as an organic visual paradigm in early 20th-century ethnography
  • Intersections of color vision theories, photographic technology, and epistemic shifts in German anthropology
• Awards & Affiliations:
  • De Gruyter Stiftung-funded research on Lohmeyer's archives
  • International Research Fellow at German Maritime Museum (2019–present)
  • Post-doctoral fellow at Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin (2018)