Biography
India Roper-Evans is a London-based Hungarian/British photographer and curator. She has had several large-scale commissions across her eight-year career as a photographer and also co-founded Art Crunch, a platform to support emerging young artists through the credit crunch. Her work deals with human narratives, she often uses images to interpret texts or vice versa in her ‘Locus Criminis’ Project where her photographs of fictional crime scenes are interpreted into micro fictions by a writer, the writer responding to each image. Winner of National Geographic ‘Behind the Scenes’ Competition in 2013, she travelled to Cambodia and New Zealand and has lived in Spain/Seville and Brazil/Salvador producing work there on minority cultures for various agencies. She has a specific interest in marginal cultures, looking specifically at the Roma in Hungary and Spain, and at Black Brazilian communities in Salvador charting the ways these peoples sidestep stereotypes in their bid for recognition and self-determination. Her works on Successful Roma women looked at 10 Hungarian Roma women and their achievements in all spheres from politics to anthropology. Her work on Bears published in Less Common More Sense in 2008 focused on sexuality and gender rather than nationality but was also interested in the ways overlooked groups forge a coherent identity for themselves when they are ignored by the mainstream. Collaboration is key to her practice, with a view to working with her subjects to produce a multi-layered portrait of them, one that speaks about, and not to them.
