About

Olga Lidia Saavedra Montes de Oca (aka Olisam)

b (1967) grew up in Havana Cuba and now lives in Brighton.

She holds a PhD in Creative & Critical Practice, School of Media, Film & Music, University of Sussex and a master’s degree in Photography and Urban Culture at London Goldsmiths University.

Olga’s photographs address intimate life-worlds, in relation to wider social, political, national and global changes. Using photography in the context of oral history, she works on perspectives of everyday life in societies; religion, gender and sexuality.

Her work has been featured in international publications and media. She has contributed to: The Voice of the Past: Oral History (Fourth Edition) 2017. Cover page; The Leverhulme Trust Newsletter (August 2009). Photography contribution. (Spring 2012 vol.40. No.1) The Basque Children Of ’37 Association UK, Photoworks Annual Issue 24 and the research project ‘Memories of the Cuban Revolution’ (University of Southampton).