Tina Campt

writer and theorist of visual culture and the Black diaspora, Tina Campt has long been attuned to the profound possibilities of archive building. In her thought-provoking books, Campt narrates new, or newly revealed, artistic lineages from vernacular photographs of Afro-European subjects in the early and mid-twentieth century to contemporary images that assert a distinctively Black gaze on life and loss today. Here, Campt reflects on that which sustained her over the pandemic’s past few seasons of grief: the art and media that offered the gift of getting lost in other