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Refugees

Posted inArt

Afghan Artists Speak Out Against Oppression

Avatar photo by Billie Anania July 13, 2022July 14, 2022

In the online exhibition Before Silence, nine contemporary Afghan artists ruminate on their plight as refugees with targets on their backs.

Posted inFilm

How a Documentary Used Animation to Protect the Identity of Its Main Character

Avatar photo by M.Z. Adnan December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Afghan refugee Amin didn’t feel comfortable telling director Jonas Poher Rasmussen his story without a way to conceal his identity. Rasmussen explains the process to Hyperallergic.

Posted inArt

Refugees Tell Their Stories Through Mementos

by Jonathan Rinck March 7, 2019March 10, 2019

Jim Lommasson shows the human side of impersonal statistics with photographs of the personal belongings that immigrants brought with them.

Posted inArt

The Challenges of Being a Syrian Artist Today

by Ari Akkermans July 19, 2018July 20, 2018

Once artists leave Syria many find that international borders are closed to them as they try to build a professional and creative life in exile.

Posted inArt

Capturing the Faces of the Global Refugee Crises

by Matt Stromberg August 1, 2016August 1, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The Annenberg Space for Photography serendipitously opened their latest exhibition Refugee during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates one of our most enduring refugee narratives, the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt (even if its veracity is in doubt).

Posted inIn Brief

Olafur Eliasson Recruits Refugees to Assemble Symbolic Green Lights

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne April 4, 2016April 9, 2016

In response to Austria giving migrants a red light, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to create a “Green light,” a crystalline polyhedral LED light made from recycled materials.

Posted inArt

A Photographer Documents the Struggles of Refugees in Lesbos, Greece

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne January 27, 2016January 29, 2016

“Is this Europe?” That’s the question German photographer Kai Löffelbein heard again and again from refugees landing on the island of Lesbos, Greece this past fall.

Posted inNews

Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin

by Laura C. Mallonee June 19, 2015June 19, 2015

This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.

Posted inNews

Syrian Video Artists Risk Their Lives to Laugh at ISIS

by Laura C. Mallonee March 18, 2015March 23, 2015

A bearded man wearing sunglasses and a flak jacket sits on the ground beside a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a pro-Assad song plays on the radio. He lifts up the lid of a cooking pot, and a genie emerges.

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