Kerstin Hacker graduated from FAMU, Czechia in 1995. She became Female Photojournalist of the Year (Germany) in 1994. In 2009 she, together with the University of Zambia, received the Educational Partnership in Africa Grant and she collaborates with the Zambian National Visual Arts Council since 2016. Hacker is currently completing her practice-based PhD which explores un- and re-learning of photographic practices through decolonizing methodologies to dismantle an imagined visual familiarity with the African continent and its inhabitants.