Roshini Kempadoo was born on Crawley, Sussex, England, 1959 and is a British photographer, media artist, and academic.
10 Facts About Roshini Kempadoo
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Roshini Kempadoo's photography has been concerned with women's issues and issues of representation, particularly of black people.
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Roshini Kempadoo was born in Crawley, Sussex, England, having spent a decade of her childhood in the Caribbean, from where her family originates.
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Roshini Kempadoo attended St Rose's High School in Georgetown, Guyana, and returned to the UK for her university education in 1977.
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Roshini Kempadoo studied Visual Communications at undergraduate level, specializing in Photography in her final year, and subsequently earning a master's degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Derby.
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Roshini Kempadoo joined Format, the women's photographic agency conceived by Maggie Murray and Val Wilmer, and was involved in establishing the first Black British photographic association, Autograph ABP, together with Monika Baker, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Armet Francis.
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Roshini Kempadoo pursued a photographic career from the 1980s and '90s onwards:.
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Roshini Kempadoo has exhibited regularly internationally, including in Trinidad, Toronto, New York and the Netherlands.
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Roshini Kempadoo's work has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Autograph ABP, London, and is in the collections of other institutions and individuals, including Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, US, and the Birmingham Museum and Libraries Collection UK.
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Roshini Kempadoo is the author of the book Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure.