Allan Sekula's Ship of Fools/The Dockers' Museum

Hilde Van Gelder is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Leuven, where she directs the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography. She is editor of Image [&] Narrative and of the Lieven Gevaert Series, for which she edited Constantin Meunier: A Dialogue with Allan Sekula (Leuven University Press, 2005) and, with Jan Baetens, Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: Around Allan Sekula's Photography (Leuven University Press, 2006). With Helen Westgeest, she wrote Photography Theory in Historical Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), which was recently translated into Chinese.