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  • Inside-Outside Project Europe
    Inside-Outside Project Europe
    40 images
    Photographs and drawings from the Inside-Outside Project in Europe. Each painting was created by the young refugee in the preceding photograph. Each photograph and drawing has a full caption.
  • Portraits
    Portraits
    24 images
  • Editorial
    Editorial
    33 images
  • The Missing
    The Missing
    2 galleries
  • Archive of Children's Art
    Archive of Children's Art
    14 galleries
    Photographs and drawings from the Artivism project. This work continues the Inside-Outside Project. For more information, see http://artivism.rocks/
  • Inside-Outside Project
    Inside-Outside Project
    31 images
    The Syrian Civil war has created over 3 million refugees in the surrounding countries of Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey, over half of whom are children. The physical effects of the war on children can be shown, but how can we see the psychological effects? How can we present refugee children as generic victims? How can we change how they are seen by the public, from exotic, distant, victimized, refugees to children like their own? In 2013, I created the “Inside-Outside Project” with my partner, Mieke Strand to address these questions. That year, we went to Turkey to hold art classes and photograph the Syrian refugees. The work combines formal, dignified portraits of children with drawings the children have made. The portraits use a painterly lighting style we associate with dignity and individuality, rather than “street” photojournalistic styles, to present the children as our equals. The drawings expose their thoughts: hidden trauma; daily pressures; the ideologies of the adults who control them; hopes and dreams for the future. The idea for the project began 10 years ago when I was covering the aftermath of the south Asian tsunami, and I saw children’s paintings of the events. They addressed a problem I’d struggled with for a long time, having photographed mass graves and war crimes in Kosovo and Iraq: how to connect the evidence I was photographing to the events that created it. The project is on-going effort. My intention is to create from this work three parts: a photographic and visual documentary of the effects of war and disaster; an Internet archive of drawings of war and disaster; a methodology for creating and capturing the drawings. Please download the free iPad app from Apple iTunes — search for “Inside-Outside”.
  • Village Guards
    Village Guards
    30 images
  • Portrait Rejects
    Portrait Rejects
    7 images
  • Editorial Rejects
    Editorial Rejects
    19 images
  • Firefighting
    Firefighting
    34 images
  • Politicking in Alaska
    Politicking in Alaska
    50 images
  • Turkish Elections 2002
    Turkish Elections 2002
    45 images
  • A Freighter Istanbul to Italy
    A Freighter Istanbul to Italy
    23 images
  • 0430-Turkish Natl B-Day
    0430-Turkish Natl B-Day
    14 images
  • Women's March in Oakland
    Women's March in Oakland
    61 images
  • Bernie Sanders
    Bernie Sanders
    2 galleries
  • Kosovo
    Kosovo
    28 images