Donna West Brett is an Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge, 2016); and co-editor with Natalya Lusty, Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images, (Routledge, 2018). A recent journal article looks at Stasi Surveillance Photographs in a special issue of Photography and Culture (2019). Brett is a recipient of the 2017 Australian Academy of the Humanities Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award, a member of the editorial advisory board for the Visual Culture and German Contexts Series, Bloomsbury Academic, and Research Leader for the Photographic Cultures Research Group.