Christina Tente

About Christina Tente

(she/her)

I am a PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Studies in collaboration with the Hasselblad Foundation. With my research, I explore and analyse a visual culture of the COVID-19 global pandemic as it was portrayed in press photography between January-December 2020. Through affect theory, iconography, and visual discourse analysis, I seek for dominant visual themes and potentially iconic photographs of the pandemic. Additionally, departing from the complexities of being-in-a-pandemic and their press photographic translations, I reflect on the role of photography as a generator of affect and as a tool of orientation (Ahmed, 2006), through which spectators, viewers, or citizens of photography (Azoulay, 2009) make (sense of the) world.

Before starting my PhD, I obtained my Bachelor's in Journalism and Media Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), a Master's in Film and Cultural Studies (University of Athens), and a Master's in Visual Culture (Lund University). My academic interests include photography, affect theory, posthuman philosophy, nonhuman photography, dance research, transspecies encounters, and memes.

You can follow my publications and my conference presentations on my profile here: https://gu-se.academia.edu/ChristinaTente.