Roopa Gogineni is a photographer and filmmaker from West Virginia, based in Paris and Nairobi.
Over the past ten years her work has focused on historical memory and life amidst conflict in East Africa. She holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, where she researched the construction of media narratives around Somalia. Her most recent short film "The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan" was featured on The New York Times Op-Docs and earned the Oscar-qualifying Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short. She once directed reality television in Mogadishu, an experience chronicled in NPR's Invisibilia podcast.
Roopa currently advises a cohort of doctoral students using visual methodology in their study of pastoralism and uncertainty at The Institute of Development Studies.
Roopa speaks French, Spanish, and Telugu and gets by in Swahili and Arabic. She has completed first aid and hostile environment training.
roopa.gogineni@gmail.com
current location: Lopez Island, WA