Meet the Author
Clara Rose Virginia Ewert
Clara Ewert is completing her Postgraduate degree in the History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East with an Arabic Intensive this Autumn. Ewert attended St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas and completed a BA degree in Photography. She has worked as a consultant with the Council for British Research in the Levant on two different archive digitisation projects in the past year. Prior to beginning her Masters, Ewert worked at the Imogen Cunningham Trust for four years as the Lead Archivist and managed a multi-year project to rehouse and catalogue the photographic collection of Rondal Partridge, Cunningham’s son. While at SOAS University of London, Ewert’s research interests have been focused on archival practices and how they can shape knowledge production in the MENASA region. Currently, she is completing her dissertation on how vernacular photographic archives might be used to reconstruct obscured histographies, specifically focusing on a photographic archive from Alexandria, Egypt that operated from 1930-1970.
