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"In 1981, when I was just two, my family moved from Ireland to Baghdad for the following five years. My father was the photographer of our family and it’s his curated albums that I have been re-visiting, trying to understand and recollect our time there. A civil engineer and a tourist, the images switch easily between architectural, family album and holiday snaps. He was employed by a German company to work on the construction of a new modernist area, Haifa Street, designed by renowned architect Rifat Chadirji, under the direction of President Saddam Hussein.
For me, there are no real memories, just a sense of experience from what the family album evokes and the documents and ephemera my father has kept. Through my ongoing conversations with my parents and sister, I hear of the disconnect as ‘ex-pats’ from the local community, the fearlessness of my mother driving around Baghdad with her two young daughters in what was technically wartime, and I continuously question my memories of what felt like a long holiday."
Fantasy Island offers a comprehensive exploration of the last 50 years of Irish photography, featuring the work of 70 Irish artists. The publication takes a stripped-back approach, prioritising the strength of the imagery to produce a bold and compelling book that provides a fresh perspective on Ireland.
Order Here →This Is Not a Cookbook uniquely blends memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the '80s following the Iranian Revolution, the profound influence of the women who surrounded her, and the legacy of memories handed down during wartime. Weaving moving personal anecdotes with the comfort of traditional recipes, Manouchehri offers us a glimpse of a rich but fraught culture seen through the eyes of a young girl seeking to reconcile her roots through the shared intimacy of food.
GET YOUR COPY →Through critical reappropriation, Hoda Afshar reclaims a colonial photographic legacy fixated on the veiled woman. The Fold is a critical visual and psychological investigation into the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonialist photographic practices, and the ways in which these gazes continue to shape how bodies — particularly veiled Islamic bodies — are seen, archived, and consumed.
GET YOUR COPY →Burrowing through interconnected passages and the space between words, a prayer book is an intimate and reminiscent collection that excavates personal, mundane things and uncovers within them an emotive depth and holiness. In her debut poetry collection, Benedetta Mancusi undertakes a journey of reflection across the close-knit relationship between family and faith, drawing on those insights and experiences to consecrate an emancipated perspective of femininity and womanhood.
GET YOUR COPY →Hiders is a memoir-based nonfiction picture book for adults, exploring the relationship between text and image. The book examines how storytelling can fill in the gaps of memory, and write about histories that are no longer fully available to us. It also questions where the line lies between re-imagining the past and exploiting it, especially when representing voices of the deceased. Through humour and sarcasm, the narrator stays acutely self-aware of the ethical tensions involved in reconstructing personal and collective pasts through storytelling.
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Launch 4 September 2024
Running 4-27 September 2024 at The Library Project
At The Library Project until 29th June
at The Library Project
6pm Thursday 5th June
