Imagining Islam

By Posted in - on September 20th, 2013 0 Comments

This study explores an Islam envisioned by a specific reform movement that aims to refashion Islamic identity through aesthetic practice. Their hope is to encourage a sense of shared humanity that promotes integration and a British Muslim identity. Rather than…

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After The Rains Came

By Posted in - on September 5th, 2013 0 Comments

I directed and edited After The Rains Came: Seven short stories about objects and lifeworlds as part of a period of my MA Visual Anthropology ethnographic research among the cow herding Samburu people of Northern Kenya. My original intention had…

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Aren’t I supposed to look grim?!

By Posted in - on July 30th, 2013 0 Comments

My photographic work explores identity and memory in areas that have been affected by major changes in the more distant past. In my degree project in the former German Democratic Republic I investigate how people today, 18 years after the…

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Take Me To A Place Outside

By Posted in - on July 22nd, 2013 0 Comments

This project is a phenomenological enquiry into the experience of imprisonment. Drawing on anthropologically informed theories of perception and imagination this film explores the relationship between the real and the unreal, the physical and the imagined, and the in- and…

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