Welcome to the home page of Taco Hidde Bakker, photo anthropologist and media philosopher. Depending on the projects I'm working on, I am alternating in between being an artist, writer, researcher, editor, translator, or photographer.
After studying visual arts at two Dutch academies, Kampen (1996-1998) and Maastricht (1998-2000), I gave up the prospects of a career as a painter and started working as freelance documentary and portrait photographer. Fascination for the endless world of photographs led to a gradual shift towards taking less and less pictures myself, and digging deeper into historical and theoretical aspects of the photographic medium and its wider social and historical implications.
September 2007 I graduated from the MA Photographic Studies (Leiden University, The Netherlands) with a thesis researching and questioning photo-theoretical positions within a subfield of visual and museum anthropology, concerning digital and visual 'repatriation' of photographs.
Contact:
mailtaco[at]gmail[dot]com
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