Alice Seeley Harris: photographing colonial violence in the Congo

France 24 published a video report on 24 September 2026 revisiting the photographs of Alice Seeley Harris, the missionary who documented atrocities committed under the Congo Free State. At the end of the 19th century, the regime of Léopold II, King of the Belgians, imposed forced labour in the Congo to extract rubber from the forests. The system was marked by violence and horror, and Harris's images served as testimony to those abuses. The France 24 segment presents her story as a case study in how photography was used to expose colonial violence. The video page notes that viewing the YouTube content requires authorising audience-measurement and advertising cookies, and that a browser extension appears to be blocking the video player, which must be disabled or uninstalled to watch. The cover image is credited to France 24. The report is part of France 24's French-language video output, published under the date 24/09/2026 at 18:02.