'Elisa deCourcy is a writer and curator based in Kamberri/Canberra. Between 2020-2023 she was an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Fellow (DECRA) in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University. She has written about photography and colonial art for Australian and International galleries including the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Victoria, alongside contributing to several scholarly journals. She is the author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia, which will be published by Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press in early 2025.' (https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/author/17098-elisadecourcy