About me
Paolo Favero is a visual anthropologist presently Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp.With a PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University he has taught at the University Institute Lisbon (Portugal), University College London (UK), University of Foggia (Italy) and Stockholm University (Sweden).
Paolo has devoted the core of his recent career to the study of visual culture in India. Ethnographically involved today in research on emerging image-making practices and politics in contemporary India, he was recently awarded funding by the Flemish government for a project on the introduction of digital technologies in Cuba.
Besides such situated research engagements Paolo focuses also on the ontology of images in digital habitats. He has a number of publications out there on interactive documentaries in different contexts, on wearable cameras, immersive images, smartphone apps etc.
Paolo is also active on the front of the integration of emerging technologies within ethnography. Last year he launched in collaboration with the Univ. of Deusto (Bilbao) “EthnoAlly” a digital tool for supporting researchers in conducting emplaced participatory ethnographic work.
Paolo has and has also had an active career as photographer and filmmaker. In 2004 he directed Flyoverdelhi, a film on youth in Delhi that was screened by Swedish and Italian national broadcasters.
An outgoing member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) he is the vice-chair of the ECREA working group on Visual Cultures.