publications
‘A Photograph Unfolds Infinitely - an Interview with Vincent Hasselbach by Zahra Amiruddin’. Arttaca.Pinney, Christopher, and Vincent Hasselbach. 2023. “Unruliness and Exorbitance: Anthropology, Collaboration and the Photographic Event”. Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture 8 (1):57–76.
https://doi.org/10.47659/mj-v8n1id160
research projects
A reluctant archive? Time, everyday life, and political imagination at a photographic archive in Dhaka, Bangladesh[PhD research, ongoing - MPhil/PhD Anthropology (Visual and Material Culture subsection), University College London]
Activating Archives, Engaging Audiences: A study of a digital photographic archive in Kathmandu, Nepal
[MPhil thesis, 2019 - MPhil Modern South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge]
Our Pictures, Their Pictures: Photographers’ reflexive understandings of their practice in contemporary Dhaka, Bangladesh
[BA thesis, 2018 - BA Human, Social and Political Sciences: Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge]
conferences, panels, and presentations
14 April 2026“gonotontro mukti pak” (let democracy be free): continuities and transformations in the visual and material cultures of political resistance in contemporary Bangladesh”. 9th Annual South Asia Conference, Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University.
9 April 2026
UCL x Bow Arts knowledge exchange labs: exploring migration, identities and cultural fluidity. Laisul Hoque and Yang Zou in conversation with Vincent Hasselbach. UCL East Community Cinema, London. [panel chair].
13 March 2026
Images from the Uprising. Iftar gathering #3: discussing critical discourses and celebrating the diversity of the Bangladeshi diaspora with OITIJ-JO Collective, Nunnery Gallery, London.
19 January 2026
“Building books, building worlds: a conversation on photobook practices. Anshika Varma, Nicolas Polli, and Shahria Sharmin, in conversation with Vincent Hasselbach. Chobi Mela XI Festival of Photography, Joyeeta Foundation, Dhaka. [panel chair]
2 September 2025
“A reluctant archive: reflections on archival fieldwork in Dhaka, Bangladesh”. 28th European Conference on South Asian Studies, Universität Heidelberg.
7 July 2025
“awaaz utha, kotha ko! Potential histories and anticipated futures in the visual and material cultures of Bangladesh’s monsoon revolution”. Repurposing Photographic Materials: Transforming Social, Political, and Cultural Heritage, De Montfort University, Leicester.
teaching
2024-2025ANTH0074: Art in the Public Sphere, UCL Anthropology. Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA).
Anthropology and Photography: thinking through theory and practice. Guest seminar series at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka, BD.