Fissures of the Informal

The aim of this project is to illuminate those aspects of the refugee crisis that have been hidden and obscured through the political response to it, so that we might begin to see the broader spectrum--not only of the crisis, itself--but of our political failings to deal with that crisis, and how those failings only lead to greater crisis. The project attempts to bring a formality to the radically informal conditions of the squats--it lives somewhere between documentary photography and environmental portraiture, which I think captures the informality of the situation in an arresting light. The intent of the style is two-fold: it expressly wants to pull this living history into view from the cracks and fissures where it is tirelessly swept, while at the same time, to elevate the refugees from the material despair of their circumstances to the privledged position of a portraiture subject.