Roopa Gogineni
Roopa Gogineni (2021) is a photographer and filmmaker from West Virginia. She holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, where she researched the construction of media narratives around Somalia. She began her career by assisting photographers Dominic Nahr and Ed Ou in Nairobi, Kenya. She was a finalist for Photolucida Critical Mass and the Ian Parry Scholarship, was a Women Photograph Grant recipient, a FRONTLINE/Firelight Fellow and is a 2021 CatchLight Fellow. Her last documentary, “The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan,” earned a Rory Peck Award, a One World Media Award and the Oscar-qualifying Full Frame Award for Best Short. Roopa has trained researchers from Human Rights Watch in video documentation and currently advises a cohort of doctoral students using visual methodology in their study of pastoralism and uncertainty at The Institute of Development Studies. Roopa is a member of the Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Diversify Photo, Women Photograph and The Authority Collective.
As a fellow, Roopa will work on her project “Let the Record Show,” a photographic investigation into the ways histories are created, or erased, in the American South.