Tag: poetry

• Maria Kapajeva works in collaboration with individuals displaced by war, creating large‑scale cyanotypes that reflect the fluidity of borders

  25 November 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom In Maria Kapajeva’s project Fluid Borders, she turns to her own upbringing in Narva, Estonia a town situated directly on the border with Russia to reflect on the complexities of national boundaries and displacement. Combining personal experience with collaboration, she works alongside groups of women who have fled war‑torn…

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  25th Nov 2025

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• Artist Masha Pryven works with young people to challenge themes of identity, borders and government documents

  31 October 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom Masha Pryven collaborates with young people in Narva, Estonia to question what it means to be human. Developed during a residency at the Estonian-Russian border, the project confronts the “institutional violence” inherent in state-defined identity and belonging. Through a multi-layered approach involving youth workshops, collage, polaroid, and public action…

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  31st Oct 2025

  historical processes

  Alternative Photography, alternative-photographic-processes, amazon, archives, art, artist, artist interview, blog, books, borders, collaboration, community, creativity, dreams, ecuador, embroidery, environmental conservation, estonia, experimental photography, featured, feminism, gender, heritage, historical processes, holocaust, indigenous communities, interview, interviews, museum, narrative, nationality, passport, photographer, photography, poetry, politics, public-action, russia, social-justice-issues, soil-chromatography, visual anthropology, women in photography, womens-stories, writing, wwii, youth-group

• Artist Ania Ready shares the powerful story of Naomi Kaplan Warren, a Jewish woman from Poland who survived three concentration camps

  29 September 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom In the series Life Lines artist Ania Ready had the unique opportunity to take a deep dive into archival material and interviews that led her to discover the important story of Naomi Warren Kaplan. This inspiring individual survived Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen during World War II. Naomi’s story is…

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  29th Sep 2025

  historical processes

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• Visual Storytelling in Cyan and Thread: Collaborating with Sapara Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon

  14 July 2025Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom The Sapara people of the Ecuadorian Amazon have struggled from the illegal extraction of fossil fuels in their territory. Today there are less that 600 people remaining. In collaboration with Sapara Women, artist Tatiana Lopez shares powerful stories of ancestral knowledge by visualising themes of gender, dreams, and environmental…

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  14th Jul 2025

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• From fiction: Indonesian photographer Vidhyasuri Utami uses alternative photography to create photo novels

  21 March 2024Interviewed by: Elizabeth Ransom Bringing together fiction, performance and alternative photography Indonesian artist Vidhyasuri Utami creates unique narratives with her creative art practice. Exploring themes of grief and loss Utami produces photographic objects as a device for storytelling. As the narrative unfolds Utami reveals fragments of conversations between characters held within hand crafted…

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  21st Mar 2024

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