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Max Quanchi
Max Quanchi taught Pacific history at Queensland University of Technology, the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific. His research is on the history of photography in the Pacific. A guest editor for special issues on photography for Pacific Studies (1997), the Journal of Pacific History (2007) and the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies (2020), since 1996 he has convened panels on photography at the biannual Pacific History Association conferences. In 2007, his monograph, Photographing Papua, focused on the colonial frontier in Papua New Guinea. His recent books include Postcards from Oceania: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque During the Colonial Era with Max Shekleton (2015), An Ideal Colony and Epitome of Progress: Colonial Fiji in Picture Postcards with Max Shekleton (2019), Tales from the Sak Sak: Doing Nasho in New Guinea (2020), Glorious Company: The Polynesia Company in Melbourne and Fiji (2022) and Thomas McMahon’s Search for Fame: Photographer, Journalist, Patriot (forthcoming).
