Joshua Hoskin is an intern for Circumambulating Objects: Paradigms of Restitution in Southeast Asian Art, as part of a collaborative project with the British Museum. After earning a BA in History of Art from SOAS, he worked in fashion for a number of years. Eventually deciding to devote more time to his passion for Cambodian art, he returned to SOAS where he is now pursuing an MA in History of Art and Archaeology. His primary interest is in Cambodian dance, particularly as it interacts with (and facilitates interactions between) landscape, architecture and (non-)human beings. Beyond this his interests range from Theravadin pagoda murals to the architecture and popular culture of the post-independence Sangkum Reastr Niyum period.

As a CO-OP / BM intern, Joshua is currently investigating a series of photographs taken by Sir Gerald F. Kelly, which have lain untouched at the British Museum for a number of decades. Joshua’s research has focused on 775 photographs of Cambodian dancers, which constitute a detailed record of pre-Khmer Rouge court dance. He has been considering questions of scattered cultural memory, as well as the complex afterlives of photographs taken by Europeans in colonial Southeast Asia.