Roshini Kempadoo

Roshini Kempadoo (born 1959) is a British photographer, media artist, and academic. For more than 20 years she has been a lecturer and researcher in photography, digital media production, and cultural studies in a variety of educational institutions, and is currently a lecturer at the University of East London. She also gives regular academic and artist presentations nationally and internationally.

Her photography has been concerned with women's issues and issues of representation, particularly of black people. In her research, multimedia, and photographic projects, which explore the visual representation of the Caribbean, she combines "factual and fictional re-imaginings of contemporary experiences with history and memory ...[and] her recent work as a digital image artist includes photographs and screen-based interactive art installations that fictionalise Caribbean archive material, objects, and spaces."

Roshini Kempadoo was born in Crawley, Sussex, England, but spent a decade of her childhood in the Caribbean, from where her family originates. As she describes her background,

"You could say my parents were part of the 'Windrush Generation'. My father (Peter Kempadoo) arrived in London in the 1950s, but my family moved back and forth between the UK and the Caribbean. I was born in England and returned to the Caribbean as a child. I spent my formative years, between the ages of 11-18, in Jamaica and Guyana. I had the good fortune of knowing the Caribbean very well through my experiences growing up in Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana."

She attended St. Rose's High School in Georgetown, Guyana, and returned to the UK for her university education in 1977 (her family relocated to Saint Lucia shortly afterwards). She studied visual communications, 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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