Tara’s work demonstrates a sustained commitment to advocacy within both visual research and visual journalism. Among many other activities, she is co-Founder and Board Member of Authority Collective (AC), an organization created in 2017 to resource women of color visual media makers, and to intervene in the gatekeeping networks of power within visual media industries. In her work as a visual journalist, visual ethnographer, and multimedia curator Tara adopts creative strategies to anti-racist work, using visuals to reimagine marginalized individuals and communities.
Annalisa’s participatory video ‘Decolonizing the City: Visual Dialogues in Padova’ represents a public visual sociological approach to confronting and reflecting on Italy’s colonial past by building counter histories coming from racialized people with family migratory backgrounds.