PhD Seminar by Paolo Favero - Living, Loving and Dying: Reflections on Ethnography, Existence and the Senses

Paolo Silvio Harald Favero is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp where he is a member of the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi). Trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Stockholm (Sweden), Paolo has devoted the core of his career to the study of visual culture in India. Presently he is conducting a visual/sensory/existential exploration of ageing and dying in New Delhi. Active also as image-maker, Paolo works on the incorporation of artistic and digital practices in ethnographic research. In 2017 he launched in collaboration with the University of Deusto (Bilbao) “EthnoAlly” a digital tool for supporting researchers in conducting emplaced, sensory and participatory ethnographic work. Paolo is the author of The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) and of Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics (2021, Routledge).