Sandra Bustamante is an independent researcher, writer and photographer working across political theory, feminist visual culture and archival practice. She holds a doctorate in Political Science and is completing a second doctorate in Visual Communication at the Universidad de Sevilla, with an international mention at the Università di Bologna, where she will be a visiting researcher at FAF – Fotografia, Arte e Femminismi in 2027. She was a member of the Estéticas de la Paz research group at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, and editor of Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Development Cooperation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). Her research on photography under anti-gender politics draws on fieldwork in Argentina, El Salvador, Jordan and Benin. At the ARCHIVO Research LAB she is developing Archiving Against Disappearance, a project on feminist counter-archives and democratic erosion.