I am moved by empathy and the resilience of people to exercise their agency and seek grassroots solutions to problems they face. I am a photographer & video director working across Africa focusing on memory, migration and identity. Based in Cape Town, born in Johannesburg my studies included time at The Market Photo Workshop, an Honours Degree in Visual Anthropology focusing on media training for youth advocacy platforms at The University of Cape Town, and a Masters of Social Science in African Studies from The University of Oxford (St Anthony's) focusing on the same themes at a broader more comprehensive level. As a visual storyteller, I was the first recipient of the Gisele Wulfsohn Mentorship Award for my photographic work on migration; and received an Africa Center Residency Award; focusing on African migration to Spain. As a graduate of the Market Photo Workshop I have exhibited in Rotterdam, Maputo, Johannesburg, and Lagos Photo Festival in various group shows. I was nominated for a Magnum Foundation grant in 2017, and am a member of Women Photograph and was in their first cohort of mentees in 2018, and nominated for World Press Joop Masterclass in 2019. For the past five years I have been working on a personal photo project; focusing on white South Africans conceptions of belonging in relation to settler colonial histories entitled Un/Settled that was recently exhibited at Photoville New York in the Emerge Cube section curated by James Estrin and David Gonzales after it was featured on Lens Blog in the NY times. The project was previously shortlisted for the Paul Taylor/Dorothee Lange prize at Duke University and is currently being showcased in public exhibition format until the end of January 2020 in the Company Gardens in Cape Town. One of the most important features of my photographic work which has influenced my development of Sunshine Cinema is the drive to make it accessible to public audiences experimenting with modes of public participation. It is within the context of public participation that I am most inspired , drawing together my research in media, anthropology, and socio-political interventions as I believe in bringing people together to engage and learn from one another. I am a partner in the award winning media agency Makhulu focusing on advocacy content and then co-founded the solar powered mobile cinema non profit network Sunshine Cinema, in 2017 with my husband Rowan Pybus with a small but solid and passionate team. Alongside screenings, Sunshine Cinema has also begun to focus on media training, and developing public engagement interventions using Virtual Reality and has been working on a public health HIV awareness project with Google, UNAIDS and the Gates Foundation for the last two years. I believe in the power of media to spark conversation as a tool for social action.