Video: Between two cultures: portraits of second-generation immigrants
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Wherever you move, your roots, your culture remains with you, within you. All the heroes of the Studio Series have been living in Australia for a long time, speak English, have integrated into society, but still cannot perceive themselves as Australians. Photographer Atong Atem decided to photograph them to pay tribute to their true roots.
The 25-year-old herself Atong Atem (Atong Atem) was born in South Sudan, although she now lives in Melbourne. Such a strange approach to portrait photography is taken for a reason - it is a reference to old studio portraits that were done earlier in Africa. Not having a professional studio, photographers often organized the filming location at home, decorating them with bright fabrics, and trying to add as much color to the frame as possible.
“There is a lot of color and texture in my work, this is a kind of anti-minimalist approach. I represent what is important to my culture, what is part of its history. Therefore, in this series of photographs there is much more attention to theatricality and clothing of the characters than to themselves heroes."
“The first photographs of Africans are ethnographic portraits that presented people as a curiosity, as objects. about the possibilities of personality, about our individuality, about our culture."
"All the characters in my series are my friends, the first and second generation of immigrants. I myself was born in Bor, I am a purebred resident of South Sudan. And I do not think of myself as an Australian, I am just a person who has moved outside my homeland.."
“When I was growing up, I was constantly reminded that I was not local, that I was not Australian. This country was alien to me, inhospitable. And at the same time, I did not feel connected with my parents, because I did not grow up in South Sudan, like them. It all gives the feeling of a kind of “third culture.” When I was younger, I desperately wanted to be a part of Australian culture, although I am black, I am African, and I did not succeed. But I will not be able to settle down in South Sudan - from - for my Australian accent and Australian values and culture."
Pictures from the photo project of Alexander Khimushin "The world in faces" allow you to see all the diversity of cultures and nations on our planet. Be sure to check out our selection of 30 unique portraits of people from around the world.
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