Jean-Frédéric de Hasque

Jean-Frédéric de Hasque (1970, Belgium) studied fine arts, photography, video and was Professor of Photography and Video from 2003 to 2008. He also studied anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in where he completed a thesis entitled 'Benin's elite, ethnography of a class social booming from a transnational association. Lions Club'. He is doing his fieldwork research with a camera, his anthropological approach cross text and images. His dissertation is a text accompanied by a documentary film, but both elements can be read or watched separately.

He completed a postdoctoral research 'A community beyond the state, analysis of the advent of an "African political global"'. The main objective is to describe a model of supranational governance in Africa from a private association. This research is also filmed. He’s invited lecturer at UCLouvain (Belgium) and Professor for Photography at ENSAV La Cambre. He has made several documentary films in Africa since the year 2000, selected and screened widely. Jean-Frédéric is a member of LAAP Prospective Anthropology Laboratory at UCL, Belgium.

Installation and short feature films on his personal website and on Vimeo. His list of publications can be viewed here.