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In doing so, with more than 100 subjects, Florio has created a humanizing counterpoint to the images that have dominated the narrative of the migration crisis so far. “I know it sounds cliché, but I felt these portraits were an effective way to find the individual in the whole mess. All the images of migrants we’ve seen are of chaotic hordes. I thought it was important to give them a space to represent themselves.”. Read the whole feature at VQR on-line
Here we are again, on the cusp of yet another New Year which, personally speaking, is often taken for granted… saying goodbye to the year pas(t)sed, making plans, looking forward, resolutions (if that’s your bag), and the mundane stuff; like doing our taxes (urghhh!). However, there are some who don’t have this luxury, those whose lives have been suddenly, and irrevocably, turned up-side-down by life events totally beyond their control and comprehension, and when even the mundane seems like an insurmountable hurdle.
It’s these people who will be on my mind as we ring in 2016, those who face one of the longest, most uncertain journies of their lives.
Wishing everyone a peaceful New Year.
For Jacqui and Bella Boo, and Kourtney, with all love and strength xxx
A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
– J.Rumi
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