Dr Nelly Ating

Wednesday 10th December, 12.30-2.30pm

Nelly Ating

About:

Nelly Ating is a visual artist who focuses on identity, education, extremism, and migration questions. Her photographic work documenting the rise of Boko Haram terrorism between 2014 and 2020 in Northeast Nigeria shone a light on the intersections of radicalisation and the aftermath of conflict. Ating began exploring mixed media art to address ethical concerns surrounding photography and experiment with self-portraits. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. She is a PhD student at Cardiff University and her research examines human rights discourse through archival images.

Session details:

For this session, Nelly Ating used photographs from the Ffotogallery archive and explored the performance embedded in them. Nelly and the participants discused these ideas and were able to gain hands-on experience exploring and analysing the archival materials.

*Funded by the Paul Mellon Centre

Images: © Thasnim Hussein