Dr. Mallika Leuzinger
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Email: mallika.leuzinger(at)zmo.de
Forschungsprojekt:
Archival Imaginaries and the Politics of History in South Asia
Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
South Asia
Positions
Education
Publications
“Projecting empowerment: camera politics in and beyond twentieth-century South Asia” in Dastavezi – The Audio-Visual South Asia, Volume 4, 2022, pp. 8-44
‘Ummijaan’s pictures were nice’: thinking about Haleema Hashim’s photography” in Trans Asia Photography, Volume 10, Issue 1: Writing Photo Histories, Fall 2019
“The Intimate Contract of Photography: Haleema Hashim’s Practice and its Afterlives” in Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 19, 2017, pp. 29-54
“Amateurism, or the strange and radical kinship of the camera” in Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India edited by Suryanandini Narain and Shilpi Goswami, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2025, pp. 407-440.
“The conviviality of Haleema Hashim’s photography”, in WOMEN/PHOTOGRAPHY- Alkazi Foundation edited by Malavika Karlekar, August 2021
“Seeing double: the photographic lives of Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy” in PIX, Personal Paradigms Issue, 2020, pp. 86-93
“From Dumka to New Delhi: Conversations”, chapter in Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions edited by Johannes Beltz, Marie Eve Celio-Scheurer and Ruchira Ghose, New Delhi: Niyogi Press, 2015, pp.80-87 (co-authored with Mushtak Khan and Krittika Narula)
Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 20, 2018 (co-edited with Laura Spada Scalabrella)
Podcasts and public media
“European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960), EMPIRE LINES, 17 Jun 2021 [18 minutes]
“The photographic lives of Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy”, enterpix, 25 April 2020 [3 minutes]
Curation
Twin Sisters with Cameras: an exhibition of photographs by Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy (co-curated with Sabeena Gadihoke and Tapati Guha-Thakurta) at Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata, 24 Feb – 31 Mar 2022; India International Centre, New Delhi, 13 – 27 Aug 2022; Lalit Kala Academy, Lucknow, 3 – 12 Aug 2023; Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore, 18 – 25 Oct 2023; Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, 21 Nov – 5 Jan 2025, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, 9 – 26 October 2025
Assisted with the shows Viviane Sassen, Paul Strand, Beastly/Tierisch at Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2014 – 2015
Languages
- English: native
- German: native
- French: proficient