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Theresia is a social and medical anthropologist currently studying for a PhD at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Her work focuses on 20th-century Tibetan medicine and she spent a year carrying out field research in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Theresia bought her first camera, a Nikon, aged 16, to document her immense curiosity about different places and people. Half a year spent absorbing a different culture from her own in Chile inspired her to become an anthropologist. In her mind, anthropology and photography are bridges that foster understanding. She has photographed West Africa, Central and South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas to "tell powerful stories, of cultural survival, continuity and change". She says her photographs "bear witness to people's struggles, memories and dreams. Not least my own."
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