TAG: art
Sino-Soviet “Friendship”: postcards from the 1950’s
In a seminar at the University of Washington in Seattle, in May 2016, I met Yu Yin, a Chinese student. Yin had in her cell an amazing collection of postcards in socialist realism style of the 1950s and she told me that they were part of the Chinese state propaganda then made to celebrate the […]
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Call me Heenam
Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition produced by the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project. This year exhibitions presents Shahria Sharmin’s portrait series on Bangladeshi hijras—who identify as either “third gender” or transgender. The exhibition is a poetic reflection on their hopes and dreams as they navigate their lives in Bangladesh and India.” This […]
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