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My existing research project is based in a complex of spaces dedicated to the dead in México city. It endeavours to explore how and why through everyday activities and yearly rituals private and public spaces of the dead are created and maintained. In 2003 I set out to document meticulously through images as well as text the numerous ways in which the living and the dead remain connected over generations. This ongoing project was awarded with a PhD in Visual Anthropology completed in 2010.

All the black and white images have been taken and developed using traditional photographic methods, no image manipulation, cropping or altering of images digitally.

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Education:

2006-2010 – PhD, Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

2006 – MRes, Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
“Socialising the Dead: México’s monumental bodies and deadscapes”

1995 – MA, Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Historical and ethnographic perspectives of photographic internal and external worlds"

1993 – BA (Hons), Photography, The London School of Communications (The London College of Printing)
"The Symbiosis of Photography and Anthropology"

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Talks and Conferences

2008
‘Visual research in the spaces of the dead’, at Making Sense of Dying and Death Conference (3-5 Nov, Salzburg, Austria)

‘Memory and Culture in the spaces of the dead’, at Art, Religion, Identity: Symposium (23-24 Sept, University of Glasgow)

‘Visual research in the spaces of the dead’, at 6th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies (27 June, Imperial College, London)

‘Visual research in Mexico City’, at Anthropology in London: Current Research II (13 June, Goldsmiths, University of London)

‘Research in the spaces of the dead, Mexico City’, at Plymouth PostGrad Symposium (02 May, Plymouth University)

‘Visual research in the cemeteries of the dead in Alvaro Obregon’, at the Interdisciplinary Seminar (12 March, Goldsmiths, university of London)

2007
10th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film:

1 July - Visual research in sacred and social spaces of the dead. Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory practices in anthropology. University of Manchester.

27 June – Cemeteries in México city: The creation of sacred and profane spaces. Visual Anthropology in Latin America. University of Manchester.

5-6 May - First International Conference. Death in Africa: Historical and Cultural Perspectives - Socialising the Dead: Material culture of the dead in the Cemeteries of Álvaro Obregón, México city. CRASSH, University of Cambridge.
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Memberships:

The Royal Anthropological Institute, UK.
EASA: European Association of Social Anthropologist.
American Anthropological Association, USA.
Society for Visual Anthropology, USA.
The Association of Photographers, UK.
The Royal Photographic Society, UK.