Edward Paridaen

Edward Paridaen (°1998) is a PhD researcher, currently working on Belgian colonial photography (1908-1960). Combining historiographical and anthropological methodologies, his project seeks to investigate the visual economies at play in photographic artefacts kept in Belgian colonial collections. The project is under the supervision of Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (VUB) and Sanne Fleur Sinnige (VUB).
He obtained his master's degrees at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in the fields of History and Social and Cultural Anthropology. His last thesis dissertation focused on the University of Leuven's ethnographic collection, its restitution and ethical considerations on Belgian colonial artefacts.