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Frédérique Cifuentes is an award winning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based in London, where she divides her time between working on assignments for commercial clients and personal projects. Born in France in 1973, she holds a masters degree in Anthropology from the university of Paris-X Nanterre and a Postgraduate Diploma in photojournalism from the London College of Printing.

Her work has been shown and published worldwide. She started her work in Sudan in 2002 and has since produced several photo-stories about Sudanese society published and exhibited worldwide. It was through photography that she came to know Gadalla Gubara and directed and produced her first documentary film, "Cinema In Sudan" in 2008.

In 2006-2007 she was invited by the Leighton House Museum to be artist in residence and to develop her photographic research on the theme of "Orientalism: an art for exploring". Since then Frederique's career has followed a long path to photographic archiving and historical recording that has been developed with two major projects using both photography and video, "Cinema in Sudan", and "Behind the scenes at Leighton House Museum". In 2008-2010, the museum commissioned Frédérique to record the 18 months refurbishment project.

She has extensive experience in project development and management with NGOs such as UNESCO, Action Contre la Faim, UNHCR, and Sudanese Mothers For Peace. Between 2006-2008 she coordinated a series of photographic workshops in the internal displaced persons camps of Khartoum and worked with refugee groups in London. She was a consultant for UNESCO, Department of Media and Communication, managing the construction of the first photographic agency in Sudan.

Her photographic work is distributed by the following agencies: Arabian Eye (Dubai) and Alamy (UK).

 

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April - June 2012
British Colonial architecture in Sudan, photographic exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, UK

November 2010
Cinema in Sudan,
Cinema Africa in Tokyo, Japan

June 2010 - November 2008
Leighton House Museum, refurbishment project, UK

April 2010
Cinema in Sudan, The Addis International Film Festival, Ethiopa

March 2010
Holland Park Opera, UK

January 2010
Arts Grant Scheme, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, UK

December  2009
Cinema in Sudan,
African Diaspora Film Festival, New York, USA

November 2009
Cinema in Sudan, Festival international du film d'Amiens, France
Cinema in Sudan, Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, Uganda

September 2009
Cinema in Sudan, Africa in the pictures, Netherland
Cinema in Sudan, NAFA film festival, Slovenia

April 2009
Cinema in Sudan, ZIFF, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Cinema in Sudan, Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, Spain
Cinema in Sudan, Fida doc'Souss, Agadir, Morocco
Cinema in Sudan, Semaine du Documentaire de Fès, Morocco

March 2009
Cinema in Sudan, FIGRA, Coup de Pouce, Le Touquet, France
Cinema in Sudan, FESPACO, Burkina Faso

December 2008
Cinema in Sudan, Dubai Film Market, UEA

November 2008
Cinema in Sudan, Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, Tunisia
Cinema in Sudan
, Kenya International Film Festival, Kenya