Olga Lidia Saavedra Montes de Oca is a PhD student, in Creative and Critical Practice in the Media and Film Department at the University of Sussex, where she holds a full award PhD studentship.
Olga completed her MA in Photography and Urban Culture at London Goldsmiths University.
Using photography in the context of Oral history, she has worked on topics ranging from perspectives on everyday life in societies; religion, gender, sexuality, youth and oral history in Cuba. She has collaborated with:
- The Leverhulme Trust (Newslettter)
- Oral History Journal Magazine
- Spanish citizen Portal Abroad Magazine
- Harvard Review of Latin America
- this research project “Memories of the Cuban Revolution” (University of Southampton), and other research projects.
More specifically her work addresses intimate life-worlds, in relation to wider social, political, national and global changes.
How to contact the photographer
Email: os81@sussex.ac.uk