Leaving One For Another
“Whenever the media covers stories of the movement of people as a result of economic, social or religious reasons, these people are mostly portrayed as both faceless and nameless and as an audience there is sometimes a detachment from the people in question,” concludes Raphael. “We decided, therefore, to use still life images as an allegory for this concept, and to show that, while in the media immigrants are largely stripped of their individual identity, they remain united in a common goal. They represent the struggles of all people in search of a better life.”
Olgaç Bozalp about his collaboration Home: Leaving One For Another’ with Osman Ozel and Raphael Hirsch @olgacbozalp
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