Amanda Egbe is an artist, filmmaker, researcher, and senior lecturer in Media Production at the University of the West of England (UWE). Her research and practice focus on archives, digital technologies, the moving image, activism, and race. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences, and galleries. Her single-screen work, installations and commissions include collaborations with dancers, community groups, archives and heritage organisations, other artists, media, and art collectives.
Her current research projects include Where Were You in 1992? Which was installed at the Barbican Gallery in 2023, and Where Do You Keep Your Black People?
@das_eisein
www.amandaegbe.co.uk

Dr Patricia Francis is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Media Communication at the University of the West of England (UWE). Prior to working in academia Patricia had an extensive media career working in broadcast journalism with the BBC. Her film The Art of Oppression (2021) won The Windrush Caribbean Film Festival Best Film category. In 2023 she organised an international conference When I Dare to be Powerful which focussed on ‘voice’ as an act of resistance.
Patricia’s research considers how filmic tools can be appropriated in order to platform marginalised and oppressed voices.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-patricia-francis-01693550/
@patriciafrancisofficial

Laura Lamb Mallet [b. 1992, London] is a visual artist and aspiring bombshell, focussed on the pursuit of pleasure. She is an Associate Lecturer in Photography and Media Production at UWE Bristol and Boomsatsuma. Her work explores the role of the female body in contemporary culture, and the wider representation of sexuality in popular culture. Through photography she addresses the complicated relationship between desire, narcissism, the perception of sexuality and arousal.
In addition to her photographic work, Laura hosts PHOTOSLUT, a podcast launched in 2023 where she interviews creators about visual culture and photography in an engaging, less academic format.
@lauralambmallet
@akaphotoslut
www.lauralambmallet.com

Donna is a photographic artist based in Bristol, her work is centred around the complex dynamics of identity as shaped by both imposed societal narratives and personal lived experience.
Employing photographic techniques to a mixed media portfolio she creates varying degrees of obscuration expressing the state of being simultaneously visible and invisible, highlighting the complexities of discourse around identity and advocating for a deeper, more nuanced engagement with the realities of marginalised lives.
donnalyonsphoto.co.uk
@donnaat293

Amber Mota is an early career researcher currently pursuing a PhD at the University of the West of England. Inspired by her time spent working for the British Film Institute (BFI) and studying at the University of Amsterdam, her research focuses on the development of a ecocentric audio-visual archiving practice borne out of a decisively intersectional eco-futurist perspective. By questioning the enticing promises of immortal media metaphors, her work seeks to subvert mainstream conceptions of the archival mission. She explores this by praxical experimenting with new metaphors that render more sustainable and symbiotic interpretations of the archive.

An applied editor and astute writer with a fierce interest in spearheading accomplished productions.