Anne Sofie Møller Askholm

Anne Sofie M. Askholm is a visual anthropologist and PhD fellow at Aalborg University Copenhagen. Her project concerns the relation between ethics, everyday practices of energy consumption, and ways of practicing sustainability. She has a BA in religion and anthropology, and a MA in visual anthropology from Aarhus University, Denmark, and she has studied photography and film at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography. Her research interests cover human-environment-climate relations, the Anthropocene, and politics, power and (in)equality related to environment and consumption as well as visual ethnographic methods and documentary filmmaking.

Armina Dinescu

Educated in visual anthropology, Armina thrives at the junction between academic curiosity and pragmatic sensibility. In her undergrad and masters, most of her research has focused on digital anthropology and encounters with non-humans (huldufólk in Iceland, or therapy horses in the US). As a grown-up, by day, she works with user research in tech environments and organises the Copenhagen-based anthropological film festival Sjón. By night, she dreams of multispecies ethnography. The remainder of her free time is spent on projects making sustainability more accessible.

Anne Chahine

Anne Chahine is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at Aarhus University in Denmark with an interest in visual and multimodal anthropology. She is a research fellow at POEM (Participatory Memory Practices), a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Her work focuses on memory, future anthropology, historicity, sensorial methods, and collaborative approaches to knowledge production. As part of her PhD project, she developed the virtual exhibition space The Future Memory Collection, exploring future-oriented narratives together with young people from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).

Christian Suhr

Christian Suhr is a filmmaker, associate professor, and coordinator of the Eye & Mind MSc-Track of Visual Anthropology at Aarhus University. His research has focused on invisible spirits, psychiatric illnesses, demonic and divine forces, and how film can be used to approach unseen dimensions of human life. He has explored these topics during fieldwork projects in Egypt, Papua New Guinea, and Denmark. In the coming five years he will as PI dedicate his time to the ERC-project: “Heart Openings: The Experience and Cultivation of Love in Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam”.

Christos Varvantakis

Christos Varvantakis is a social anthropologist working at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research focuses on childhood, politics, urban cultures, and archives, as well as on visual and multimodal research methodologies in the social sciences. He is the head of programming of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and co-editor of the journal entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography.