Clare Veal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History & Film Studies at the University of Sydney, where she is completing her thesis on the relationship between photography and Thai identity from 1950 to 2010. She has published in Trans Asia Photography Reviews, Modern Art Asia, and the Silpakorn Journal of Fine Arts, and is currently working as a sub-editor for Asian art for the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism.Between 2012 and 2013 she was a researcher in residence at the Thai Art Archives, Bangkok and completed fieldwork in Thailand with funding from the Asia Institute, Melbourne and the Royal Thai Embassy.