Small Archives and the Silences of Algerian History

Erika Nimis is an Associate Professor in Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She specializes in the history of photography in West Africa and has published three books and many articles on the subject. She collaborates with Africultures, where she co-edited a special issue entitled “African Perspectives on Photography” (2012) with Marian Nur Goni (EHESS, Paris), with whom she also cowrites the blog FOTOTA, dedicated to Research on Photography in Africa (http://fotota.hypotheses.org/). nimis.erika@uqam.ca