Photographer & PHD Candidate in Culture Studies
I am a photographer and researcher currently working towards my PhD in Culture Studies. My photographic work and PhD thesis explore feminist and decolonial visuality and visual cultures.
I come to photography as a trans-disciplinary artist and researcher having spent over a decade working as a dancer and even longer working for national and international charities and third sector organisations on gender equality and social justice issues.
Education
PhD in Culture Studies (ongoing), UCP - Lisbon
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (UCP) - Lisbon
FCT Scholarship
MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation, LSE
BA Development Studies and History, SOAS
2014 - 2016, London School of Economics. Distinction
2009 - 2012 School of Oriental and African Studies. First-Class Honours.
Creative Credits
Photo and object exhibited from ongoing 8M project
(In)visible exhibition, REINVENTING Grassi, The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden museum, Germany (2023).
Exhibited in group show
Pequenas Coisas, Portugal (2023).
Co-Artistic Director & Film Maker: Ecological Beings
Co-Curator: Rouzbeh Akbhari, 4Cs, Portugal
Videographer, UK
Arts Council Funded Dance Film. Element Arts Company, UK (2022)
Co-curated “exhibition as book” of artist Rouzbeh Akbhari as part of the 4C’s project (Funded by FCT) launched at Hangar in Lisbon, Portugal (2021)
Photographer, Global
Lens Culture Black and White Editors Pick 2021; Commissioned by Ella Mesma Company for Papillion (Arts Council UK Funded); Commissioned by Neoteric Dance Company for Through Her Eyes (Arts Council Funded UK); Commissioned by individual dancers and artists including Anna Alvarez; Ama Rouge; Michela Di Felice and more
Commissioned by Anna Alvarez Tango; Element Arts Company ‘Showstoppers’
Publications
The Cultural Politics of Hope
Co-organiser of The Cultural Politics of Hope Conference, UCP-Lisbon with keynotes: Leticia Sabsay (LSE), Ben Anderson (Durham University), Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) and Monica Diaz (UCP) (2021)
Power in the Peripheries: Arts, Cultures of Equality and Southern Perspectives
Masculinities and Nonviolence in Contexts of Chronic Urban Violence
Community Perceptions of Transactional Sex with Children and Adolescent Girls, a Qualitative Study in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil’s Proposed Policies will Hurt Women’s Equality – and be Bad for Men, Too
Fernandez, M., Page, V., and Moura, T. Power in the Peripheries: Arts, cultures of equality and southern perspectives, in, Theorising Cultures of Equality. Editors: Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson and Jimmy Turner. Routledge GRACE Series, Volume 1. 2020
Borde, E., Page, V., and Moura, T. Masculinities and nonviolence in contexts of chronic urban violence. International development planning review special issue on “safe and inclusive cities.” 2020 (Q1 Journal)
Ignacio, C., Araújo, D., Ruge, E., Cerdeira, L., Cosmelli, L., Page, V., Cislaghi, B., Lauro, G., & Buller, A. (2020) Community perceptions of transactional sex with children and adolescent girls, a qualitative study in favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Global Public Health, 15:3 (Q1 Journal)
Punishment Wins over Prevention in Brazil
Moura, T., and Page, V. Brazil’s proposed policies will hurt women’s equality – and be bad for men, too. The Conversation. November 24, 2016
Barker, G., Moura, T., and Page, V. Punishment wins over prevention in Brazil. New America. September 10, 2015