Patricia Hayes is the National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Visual History & Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. With a research background in southern African history, she engages extensively with photographic archives and their methodological and conceptual challenges. She is co-editor of the volume Ambivalent. Photography and Visibility in African History (2019), the subject of a Roundtable in the American Historical Review (Volume 126, Issue 4, December 2021, pp 1552–1573, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab540). She also co-edited the special issue on ‘Other Lives of the Image’ in the journal Kronos, Vol 46 (2020), and the recent volume Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa (2021).