ARIANN MIEKA
Portfolio
This portfolio highlights my work across professional photography, audio-visual storytelling, editorial layout, and research-driven projects. From commissioned shoots and calendar series to academic coursework, documentaries, and visual blog features, each piece reflects my love of strong visuals and my commitment to telling culturally grounded, imaginative, and meaningful stories.
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Calendars
Since 2012, I’ve created an annual themed calendar series that uses photography and narrative captions to document Trinidad and Tobago’s culture, history, and landscape. The project demonstrates my commitment to sustained visual storytelling, cultural documentation, and creating work that broadens how Caribbean life is represented and understood.
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Photography
This section shares a selection of my photography, showcasing the range of work I have produced over the years. I have been passionate about photography for as long as I can remember. My love of travel, exploration, and the Caribbean has shaped my creative vision across landscapes, fashion, portraits, interiors, documentary, heritage, and abstract work. I received formal training at St. John’s University, New York, and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where I graduated with distinction. My work has been featured in national and international exhibitions, and I combine technical skill, cultural insight, and curiosity to create visually compelling and meaningful imagery.
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Audio Visual & Documentary
This section features documentary and audio-visual projects developed through my visual anthropology studies and my ongoing fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago. Whether through film or recorded interviews, these works highlight my dedication to stories rooted in everyday life, cultural memory, and community perspective—core values that guide my approach to storytelling.
This documentary, produced for my Anthropology and the Visual: Production course, explores the deep connection between food and cultural identity through the experience of an international student in London. I produced the film, handling all photography and editing, and submitted it alongside a written paper. The film examines how cooking and sharing homeland cuisine helps migrants maintain a sense of self, while highlighting the role of technology in preserving cultural practices across globalized communities.
Created for a Visual Anthropology Production class, this piece pairs photographs taken in London with an audio recording of my grandmother recalling the memory behind an image from her family album. By revisiting the original location, the work explores how public spaces hold layered histories, blending past and present through voice, memory, and place.
These works pair calendar images from Memories and Reflections (2023) with audio excerpts from interviews with elders across Trinidad and Tobago. The project blends photography and oral history to capture lived experiences, family memory, and place-based knowledge, contributing to a collective portrait of T&T’s cultural heritage.
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Blog & Editorial Writing
This curated set brings together stories I wrote for MEP Publishers—deadline-based cultural and place-focused reporting from Trinidad and Tobago—alongside selected pieces from my personal blogs, where I expand on photography, travel, and reflective essays. These works represent the breadth of my storytelling practice and the ways I observe, interpret, and document the world around me.
Article 1: Out and About in Belmont, Trinidad
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Article 2: Tobago Nature Vibes - Little Tobago
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Article 3: Remembering Divali in Felicity, Trinidad
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Article 4: Tour of Siparia, Trinidad – the City of Sand​
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Article 5: A Visit to an Orisha Yard
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Editorial & Research Projects
This section showcases creative and research-driven projects, including a magazine I co-founded and produced—where I oversaw layout, photography, and editorial direction. It also features my documentation of East Port of Spain’s historic buildings for a site inventory, created as part of a team analyzing how built and cultural heritage can foster a heritage economy. In that project, I provided most of the photography, designed the layout of the final report, and here I am sharing 8 pages from the full 37-page inventory. These works reflect my dedication to visually rich, community-centered storytelling across diverse formats.
