Erika is a Brazilian lecturer, curator and researcher in photography and visual culture based in London. She has a PhD in history (visual culture) from UNICAMP, with a séjour doctoral  at EHESS, Paris and a postdoc at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo. She has taught at Birkbeck College and the University of Bedfordshire and has authored papers on Latin American photography, photography and gender, war photography, as well as three recent books on these topics.

Dis:connecting histories of photography: the transits between Latin America and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s

My project treats the dis:connections between Latin American and European photography between the 1970s and early 1980s. Departing from the Latin American Photography Colloquia (1978, 1981), it analyses archival findings resulting from research carried out in Brazil, Latin America and Europe, which is focused on public European spaces where Latin American photography circulated, such as publications and exhibitions, and how they promoted specific cultural transfers between Latin America and Europe related to the international institutionalisation of photography.