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Sara Blokland is a visual artist, researcher, and curator serving as Practice Supervisor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) for the Master Photography & Society program. She concurrently holds teaching positions at Art Academy Utrecht (HKU) and Leiden University, where she is also a PhD candidate.
Her academic background includes:
- BA in Theatre Design and Photography (Cum Laude) from the Rietveld Academy
- MFA from the Sandberg Institute
- MA in Film and Photographic Studies from Leiden University
Blokland's research critically examines photography's role in representation, focusing on its entanglement with archives and (post)colonial histories. She investigates how photographic practices continuously reshape historical narratives through colonial trauma and museum contexts, bridging artistic production with scholarly inquiry to challenge dominant visual discourses.
Her publications demonstrate consistent engagement with postcolonial perspectives through photographic production, particularly in Caribbean contexts. Works like 'Unfixed Photography' (2012) analyze the reimagining of colonial archives and knowledge production within museum frameworks, emphasizing how photographic representation distorts historical understanding.
As a research associate at the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) at the Wereldmuseum, she contributes to interdisciplinary projects interrogating colonial legacies in material culture and museology through her doctoral work on trauma narratives.
