Anita Strasser is a photographer, visual sociologist and writer based in Deptford, south-east London. She studied Photography at the London Institute, College of Printing (now London College of Communication), completed a Masters in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (King's College, London) before doing a Masters in Photography and Urban Cultures at the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is currently doing an AHRC-funded PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths. Her main research interests are urban communities, the regeneration and gentrification of London, the representation of class, visual research methods and participatory photographic practice. She is also interested in mountain folk, walking/mountaineering as sociological research practice, storytelling and oral histories. In October 2020 she published her first monograph in German Erzählungen aus dem Steinernen Meer (Tales from the Stone Sea), a visual ethnography and oral history of a mountain range in the Austrian/Bavarian Alps. More info here: anitastrasser.com Anita is a member of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, Urban Photographers Association and the International Visual Sociology Association. She has exhibited her work widely in many (inter)national solo and group shows. She works as a Language Development Tutor on the Masters Programme for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication (LCC).
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