Ariella Azoulay (b.1962) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture.
Her photography publications include Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012); The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008); Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography (Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press, 2013); From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, (Pluto Press, 2011); co-author with Adi Ophir.
Her curatorial work has been wide-ranging and shown across the world at festivals and in institutions. They include: The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Binnale, 2022), Errata (Tapiès Foundation, 2019, HKW, Berlin, 2020), Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order, (F/Stop photography festival, Leipzig, 2016), Act of State 1967-2007, (Centre Pompidou, 2016, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa Fotografico, 2020); Enough! The Natural Violence of the New World Order (F/Stop festival, Leipzig, 2016); and many more.
Among her film essays: Un-documented: Undoing Imperial Plunder (2019); Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012); I Also Dwell Among Your Own People: Conversations with Azmi Bishara (2004) and The Food Chain (2004).
She received the Igor Zabel Award, in 2010, for the exhibition Untaken Photographs.
