Clara Pérez Medina
I am a researcher, filmmaker, and photographer. I work at the intersection of visual and cultural studies, Black geographies, and photographic and film production.
Clara is a queer & nonbinary Venezuelan-American documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Oakland, California who shines a loving light on transformative community work in the world. They blend their academic training in oral history and political economy with their cinematographic eye for the relationalities of care that make and unmake systems of domination. They are working towards their PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and have showcased their photographic and film work in community screenings and festivals around the Bay Area.
They grew up as a child of Venezuelan immigrants and lived in the West, South, and Northeast all before they graduated high school, creating in them a deep reverence for the importance of place in identity, community, and liberatory futures.
