Sarica Robyn is a visual anthropologist. Her research focuses on communities experiencing crisis and contexts of social change.
Sarica weaves ethnographic detail with photography and film to explore the lived worlds of her interlocutors and the social lives of their communities. From a Persian minority community in India grappling with epistemic loss, to an indigenous fishing community confronting an uncertain future, her research examines how people navigate identity, heritage, and belonging in the face of profound change. By combining narrative insights with visual storytelling, she seeks to convey the challenges, aspirations and identities of different communities to broader audiences and foster dialogue across diverse contexts.
Her curatorial work has been featured by South South, Platform, The Established,
Vogue, IndiaToday, Homegrown and India Art Fair. Her photographs have been featured in global newspaper publications, including The Telegraph and the BBC.
She holds a Bachelors in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Visual Anthropology from University College London.
Her upcoming publications include a chapter in the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, an article on studio photography in a special issue at History of Photography and an article on Parsi wedding photography.