Zoë Kennis

Zoë Kennis (1996) is a scholar of visual culture whose research examines the remediation of vernacular photography from private albums into open-access digital archives. Her work explores the affordances and challenges that emerge through this transition, with particular attention to how such images foreground perceptions of the past that have been historically neglected within top-down modes of knowledge production.

Her PhD research focuses on vernacular photographic collections within the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, investigating their positioning within unstable archival contexts and their circulation beyond institutional boundaries as sites of anti-colonial resistance. Her PhD research is supervised by Prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans.

She holds a Master of Arts in Art Sciences and Archaeology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. During her master’s studies, she was selected for the Talent for Research extracurricular honors program, which immerses exceptionally motivated students in academic research within a professional setting. She previously completed a Bachelor of Arts in Audiovisual Arts at LUCA School of Arts.