Kerstin Hacker

Kerstin’s creative practice research explores the un-learning of established documentary photographic practices, engagement with slow research and workshop as a research method. She is frequently collaborating with emerging photographers from Zambia. Together the examine connections between Zambia’s photographic history and the current emerging visual practices in the country.
She received a British Council Educational Partnership in Africa Grant in collaboration with the University of Zambia and she is a Fellow of the Centre for Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). In 2021 she was awarded the collaborative Affect and Colonialism WebLab Fellowship from the Freie Universität Berlin together with two Zambian photographers. Most recently she was awarded a prestigious Cambridge Visual Cultures Fellowship at Cambridge University together with a Zambian curator.
Kerstin Hacker has been leading undergraduate and post-graduate photography courses at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University since 2008.