Celeste McKenzie

Research Interests

• Ethnography
• Anthropology
• Documentaries
• Photography

Brief Bio

I am an academic, a photographer, and a video producer with a documentary-style undertone. Cultures and people are a passion and I have been exploring the Khomani San Bushmen in the Kalahari since 2015. This became a visual ethnography study over 5 years ending in 2019. The project attracted attention from ANFASA and the Norwegian Government and I received a grant to help with funding.

This developed further into a Practice-Based exhibition in 2022. Lecturing in the field of multimedia has given rise to many social documentary projects on poverty, recycling, and living on a landfill site in Pretoria, South Africa.

I want to apply my knowledge and skillset to NGOs that work with relief aid, indigenous and minority groups, or humanitarian aid. I have 30 years of experience in the Multimedia Communications sector, print, PR, video, and photography.

Some highlights: 2022 - Practice-Based Research Exhibition - Blood, Culture, Origin - Khomani San Bushmen Kallitype Portraits and Infrared Landscapes. 2021 - Academic Conference Design as Common Good - Switzerland - Online 2021 - Asian conference on Cultural studies 2020 - Academic conference presenter - Liverpool University UK (online) 2015- 2019 Visual Ethnographic Social Documentary - Khomani San Bushmen 2018- 2019 Travel Documentary Namibia & Botswana 2011- 2014 – Investigative Journalism, Social Documentaries on Post Apartheid Poverty