Migration

Traumatizing the photographic image.

On documentary poetics and the interconnectedness of crises.

Two artists manifest, claim, and demand space in a society that operates around violence against black women’s bodies while pretending that they don’t exist.

Reminding us the artwork does not exist in a void.

A gritty portrait of city life in the Wild East.

In New York, everything sounds back to Vietnam…

From Return to the Yakne Chitto: Houma Migrations (Neighborhood Story Project, University of New Orleans Press, 2019), a collaborative ethnography of Houma lifeways at the ends of the Louisiana bayou.

For Marwa Helal and me, the histories of our two countries—Egypt and Sudan—are inextricably linked, our shared Nile both the most obvious and fertile metaphor.

On occasion of Sniadecki’s current project, A Shape of Things to Come, the two filmmakers trade insights on “sensorial cinema” and working with reclusive desert-dwelling subjects.

Creating collaborative, environmental public art.

A public sculpture tries to grasp the wind.