Roshini Kempadoo

Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist, and lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London. Her research, multimedia, and photographic projects combine factual and fictional re-imaginings of contemporary experiences with history and memory. Having worked as a social documentary photographer for the Format Women’s Picture Agency, her recent work as a digital image artist includes photographs and screen-based interactive art installations that fictionalise Caribbean archive material, objects, and spaces. They combine sound, animations, and interactive use of objects, to introduce characters that once may have existed, evoking hidden and untold narratives. Roshini Kempadoo holds an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Derby and a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London for her Thesis ‘Creole in the archive: imagery, presence, and location of the plantation worker of two plantations, nearby villages and towns in Trinidad (1838 – 1938).