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The Anarchist Citizenship

The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories exhibition, from 27 October 2024 to 26 January 2025 at Framer Framed, examines how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora.

Framer Framed | 22 Nov 2024

Interview Hong Kong

‘I don’t know if I can ever return’

Wong Chung-Wai’s images of the home he had to leave behind forgoes stereotypes for intimate portraits of the unseen.

The Guardian | 27 Jul 2023

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An Atlas of countries that ‘don’t exist’

Italian photographers Lavinia Parlamenti and Manfredi Pantanella are working on An Atlas of countries that ‘don’t exist’ which will cover ten unrecognized states. Their aim is to make a photo book with the five places they covered so far: Transnistria, Catalonia, Nagorno Karabakh, Northern Cyprus and Western Sahara.

De Facto | 22 Nov 2022

Interview Somaliland

Art with Heart

Photographer Mustafa Saeed sees the potential of all art forms as therapy in a post-war nation, moving towards collaborative efforts to make this happen in Somaliland.

Forbes Africa | 11 May 2022

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Blood and Honey on Show

In Blood and Honey: Encounters at the Borders of the Balkans, Dutch journalist Irene van der Linde and documentary photographer Nicole Segers set out to document the borders of the Balkans. Go and watch their work at Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

De Facto | 18 Oct 2021

Review

Between Two Shores

Lithuanian photographer Tadas Kazakevičius’s visual love letter Between Two Shores captures the peace and idiosyncrasy of the Curonian Spit—a unique and spectacular geographical formation, barely a mile wide across, that extends for over 60 miles from the coast of Lithuania into the Kaliningrad oblast of the Russian Federation.

Deep Baltic | 7 Dec 2020

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Subjectio: Online Storytelling

Exactly six years after multimedia journalist Pierre Crom witnessed the very beginning of the annexation of Crimea, Subjectio is launched: an experimental online storytelling project about methods used by superpowers to control and manipulate the representation of the truth.

De Facto | 26 Feb 2020