Roshini Kempadoo is a London based Photographer, Media Artist, and Academic. Roshini travelled between the Caribbean and England, spending her formative years in the Caribbean. On her return, she studied with photographers Nick Hedges and Maggie Murray, and cultural theorists Dick Hebdige and Françoise Vergès. She has been active in documenting Caribbean communities, events, rights issues, and individuals in the UK and the Caribbean.
She was instrumental in establishing Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers in the late 1980s, and worked as a documentary photographer for Format Picture Agency (1983 – 2003), the UK’s only women’s agency.
Her current photography and artworks are created using digital techniques including montage, layering, narration, and interactive installations. Her work is concerned with equality, voice, and rights of people.
She has been influenced by a wide range of photographers, filmmakers and artist’s including Roy de Carava, Nan Golding, Sunil Gupta, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, James Van der Zee and Lorna Simpson. Recent exhibitions include Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas (2009) 7th Encuentro, Museo de Artes, National University of Colombia, Bogotá; Liminal: A question of position (2009) Rivington Place, London; Art & Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds, (2007) Yale Center for British Art, USA; and the retrospective exhibition Roshini Kempadoo work: 1990 – 2004, (2004) Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London.

Roshini is also a Reader in Media Practice at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London. Recent articles and chapters include “Interpolating screen bytes: Critical commentary in multimedia artworks" for the Journal of Media Practice 11(1):59 – 80 (2010) and for Alan Grossman’s and Áine O'Brien’s (eds.) 2007 Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice.

Roshini enjoys travelling and regular research and family visits to Trinidad. She appreciates London lifestyle as a vibrant and multi-racial metropolitan city. She enjoys looking at photographs and archive material particularly of the Caribbean and black history to think about ways in which we can re-imagine and give voice to a past.

Web References:
roshinikempadoo.co.uk
uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/roshini_kempadoo/index.htm
creativecaribbeannetwork.com/person/2932/en