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Saavendra is a visual artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Practice from the University of Sussex and an MA in Photography and Urban Culture from Goldsmiths University. A visiting Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) 2021. For the past four years she has taught photography in the Department of Media and Humanities at the University of Sussex. She is current working as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art Photography, University of the Arts London.
Her practice, crosses between photography, oral history, anthropology, queer studies, family relationships, and memory studies. She had presented her work through both national and international presentations and publications. She co-edited the first issue of Oral History (Journal of the Oral History Society) focused on Cuba (2017) and some of her photographical work has been published in the Leverhulme Trust Newsletter (2009); the Photoworks Annual Issue 24; and the research project ‘Memories of the Cuban Revolution’ (University of Southampton). More recently her photographs have been used as cover images for two recent publications, The Voice of the Past: Oral History (2017), by Oxford University Press and Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation (2021) for University of Chicago Press.
Finished project: Unpacking. Supported by Arts Council England.
Current Project:The Wivenhoe Artists Oral History Project aims to create a collection of audio, text and visual material documenting the lives and work of Wivenhoe’s artists from the 20th century onwards. 2019 to 2023.
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