Brief Title
“Stranger”
“Grateful”
Purpose (Aim)
Initiate respect towards migrants, to change people’s ignorance and perception of refugees. Explore the success of these migrants, such as unknown talents. Migrants deserve more recognition. The purpose of the publication is to create awareness and unity into society.
Focus (Genre)
International Migration, political aspect- move to escape politician, persecution, and war. Themes- Emigration, Immigration, Refugees, Middle-East issues, Social Friction
Positioning
Educate, create awareness
Publication- editorial, informative
Libraries/Student Libraries
-Online at a discounted price.
Coffee shops, places where its sustainable
Price point
5.99?
Mandatory requirements
All Secondary photographs must be stated from the artist on a credit page.
It must Focus on Migration
Focus on the idea of East meets West
Target Market
People who can relate to social friction, the idea of fitting into society. People who are open to cultures as well as narrow minded people to open their mind into societies issues. The publication is used as a tool to educate the user, so the audience will be eager to learn and aware of societies issues. Age range, young adults to create an open-minded attitude towards the future. It will also help reduce issues such as racism, bullying ect. The individual may be diverse and open-minded, perhaps creative in their dress sense.
What to research?
*Gather Primary and Secondary Imagery through political and social migration. This could be through fashion editorial portrait photography.
*Visual Ideas exploring maps playing with media.
Secondary Research
Uganda
Photo Credit: Meera Patel
Images gathered from the Idi Amin crisis, this relates to my cultural heritage, as my family migrated from Uganda to the UK because of this crisis. In early 1972, the president of Uganda, Idi Amin wanted expulsion of his country's asain minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country.
To progress the research further: explore migration into other Middle-Eastern countries.
Libya
Modern African Migration
Photos: Lorenzo Meloni
For approximately 180 U.S Dollars, migrants may pay a ride on top of lorries that shuttle goods across to dessert between Niger and Libya.
Temperatures in the Murzug Desert can rise as high as 108 degrees F during the brutally hot summer months.
Captured migrants sub-Saharan countries are taken to detention centres across Libya. Humanitarian groups allege that some migrants are held as long as four years without seeing judicial review.
Two local Saharan Tribes, the Tuareg and Tebu have fought for control and legitimacy ever since the government collapsed 2014. Migrants are often caught the power of struggle.
Armed militias control stretches of the border between Niger and Libya, where they raid smuggles and seize thousands of Libyans dinars, drugs, phones and counterfeit money.
Smuggling routes across the Central Mediterranean Sea mark the deadliest point of all migration in the region. More than 3,000 people have tried to cross Libya to the Italian Coast.
Migrants scratch messages into the wall of the Surman Detention centre.
A Eritrean immigrant, affected by a psychological disorder, was arrested after trying to reach Italy by boat.
Migrants from across Sub-Saharan Africa live in settlements throughout Libya as they await work and the chance to cross the Mediterranean. Some wait months, even years, before they can afford to hire smugglers.
A young man prays inside of a half-finished building now home to migrant workers from Guinea.
Men vastly outnumber women along the migrant routes that cross the Sahara. These women arrested by Libyan authorities are taken to separate detentions quarters from the men.
Migrants held in detention in Tripoli await their next meal.
Amadou Sumalia
The guardian: Cesar Dezfuli
Amadou Sumalia was one of 118 people being rescued. 363,000 migrants and refugees crossed the mediterranean. Once the 118 were safely aboard, Dezfuli took all the photos in the two hours before they put onto another boat Italy. Somalia gaze conveys his loss, solitude and determination. The aim of this is to focus on the lives of the people who were being rescued rater than just a number of people being rescued.
Picture: 1, Enssa (17) from Senegal
2, Ousman (17) from Guinea- Conakry
3, Alpha (18) from Guinea-Conakry
Amadou Sumalia Story
“I am Amadou Sumaila, a Malian, a citizen of west Africa who left his country in 2015 pushed by the problem arising from the war, which made me fear for my life,” he writes.
“I headed to Algeria, having to deal with a very difficult journey through the desert, some parts by foot, with a very strong sun over my head. But luckily someone helped me to cross that desert and I reached the city of Souaf, where I spent almost a year.”
It was there that Sumaila was offered work in Libya. With no knowledge of what was going on there – and nothing to lose – he made the journey.
“I never imagined that Libya would cause me so much trouble … I couldn’t go out to the street, there were armed people in every corner, people who if they see any migrant in the street, they kidnap you, they beat you and they ask you for money, and if you don ́t have anything, they can even kill you, as it was the case of some of my colleagues.”
Five weeks later, he reached the city of Zintan and then, helped by an Arab smuggler, made it to Sabratha where he found himself in jail.
“I had been kidnapped without knowing it. At that time I only ate once a day if I was lucky. I was in their hands. If your family doesn ́t have money to send, you do not eat. Some of the people there died of hunger, and those who didn‘t die of hunger, they died from the beatings they received, or from diseases.”
His luck held out: despite becoming very ill, his mother sent money and, a few days, later, the Arab people smuggler took him to the coast and put him in the inflatable boat with 117 others.
Hours later, Sumaila would be standing on the deck of the Iuventa, staring down Dezfuli’s lens.
Thanks to Facebook, the two have been in contact for the past six weeks. Sumaila told the photographer that while he had initially claimed to be 16 in the hope of progressing more quickly through the system, he was actually 23. He said that he had been afraid, and had also been advised that saying he was younger would help his case.
More than 15 months after being rescued, Sumaila is still waiting for news on his asylum application and nursing dreams of becoming a professional footballer.
“Pretty much everyone there is depressed because they’re still waiting after so many months,” says Dezfuli. “It’s very frustrating and can take two years or two and a half. If it’s turned down, they usually end up on the street as they don’t have deportation deals with African countries.”
Mediterranean Migration
Photographs- Mathieu Willcocks, lens culture
MOAS rescue team
During the Summer of 2016, Willcock photographed the desperate attempts of migrants from over Africa and the Middle East to cross the Meditterrean on board, MOAS- migrant offshore Aid Station. Thousands of migrants- different nationalities try to cross the seas in vessels from Libya.
A syrian teenager and his baby brother on board a MOAS rescue ship-moments after being rescued from a boat heading to Italy from Libya.
This concept of protection relates to graphic design through researching into packaging for publications.
Boys Don't cry Magazine by Frank Ocean.
A publication created by Sarah Kreibietke, Studying at University of arts London.
Udit Shankarr
East meets West
A photographer who contributed his piece on Eastern and Western landscapes, explores an Economical perspective.
Egypt
Cairo Photography by Maximilian Pinno posted by rod 27.12.2010
Fashion Photography in 90s Egypt
Photographer- Fernando Scianna- 1980s- 1990s
Fernando Scianna is an Italian fashion photographer. Travelled to Egypt to take Photoshoots in scenery.
Images of Egyptian scenery
*Nour El Dean- November 4, 2014
*Ahmad Ghazey- October 29,2014
*Mohamed Magdy, November 21,2014
*Owise Abuzaid-November 20,2014
Photos of Ancient Egypt from 1870s-1875
Photography by the New York public Library Digital Gallery twistedsifter.com
Exploring Experiences of Migrants, people with an ethnic background.
Iran and Iraq war
The Ira and Iraq war was armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran 20 August 1988.
*Iraq's desire to replace Iran as a dominant Persian Gulf state.
*Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, it madeonly limited progress into Iran snd was quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982, For the next six years, Iran was on offensive.
The guardian - Dina Nayeri- Migrated from Iran- US
Dina Nayeri expresses her experience of people being ignorant, but also how the Western culture has embraced who she is today. A mix of both where she feels it is a culture within herself. During her early life she talks about being bullied and negative experiences to do with ignorance.
National Geographic 'Afghan girl'
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of the National Geographic. Image of a adolescent girl with green eyes in a red scarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been compared to the Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa.
In early 2002, identified as Sharbat Gula (born 1972) also known as Sharbat Bibi, an Afghan woman who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed. Orphaned at the age of six during the soviet invasion of Afghanistan she had trekked by foot to Pakistan with her siblings and grandmother.
She has become a symbol of a return to Afghanistan that hundreds of thousands of refugees are undertaking after decades away.
Experiences in the Middle East
Documentations from Princesses in Middle East
‘They are hanging to life’ – Al Fayez speaks out
“The injustices that we see are terrible, and someone must say something.” Al Fayez
The former wife of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Al Fayez claims her four daughters have suffered years trapped in the royal compound in Jeddah.
Al Fayez has gone public and claims years of abuse against their four daughters. The house of Saud is a secretive dynasty, which has held absolute power of more than 80 years.
Princess Alanoud Al Fayez was married to King Abdullah at the age of 15. It was a marriage arranged by her uncle, and she never laid eyes on him until their wedding day. They had four daughters, princess Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher, but no son. Due to Al Fayez not conceiving a boy, King Abdullah demanded a divorce.
The girls led a privileged childhood- skiing trips in the Alps, visits abroad. But after the divorce, things deteriorated and she eventually fled to London.
“Leaving my daughters was very difficult, but I never thought they’d be subjected to this,” she says. “After all, they are [the king’s] daughters too.”
For the last 13 years, the daughters have been trapped in the royal compound in Jeddah. They cannot leave without armed guards and are barred from leaving the country.
“They are really in a terrible state, especially Jawaher and Sahar. She’s telling me, ‘Mummy, we are trying to hold on to our sanity’. They are hanging to life. They don’t deserve what happened to them.”
Al Fayez have been communicating with the eldest daughter, Princess Sahar through email. She says their villa is no gilded cage, but a house is slipping into ruin, with leaking pipes and shattered windows: “People don’t realise how hard our situation is. They still see us as ‘pampered’ Saudi Princesses. We never were. We suffer on a daily basis.”
Princess Sahar spoke out after being threatened by her father- the king, Sahar writes: ‘Our father said that we had no way out and that after his death our brothers will continue detaining us.”
Sahar goes on to say, “Women and children (in Saudi Arabia) are abused, while their male guardian enjoys privileges granted by the court in cases of domestic abuse. Princes and the elite entourage are protected and the victims and their families suffer injustice.”
In the meantime, in London, Al Fayez has tried everything to get her daughters released. Her lawyers have asked to visit the princesses in Saudi and have gone to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights.
Princess Hala is suffering from extreme anorexia and psychological problems. She claims she was jailed after she got a job in a local hospital and spoke up about human rights abuses.
“My daughters want the right to see their mother, and I want to see my daughters,” Al Fayez says. “They are just trying to hold on to their sanity.
“They are suffering . . . with no hope for salvation.”
The secret diary of the Saudi princess who would be stoned to death if she returned home
The princess fears she and her daughter would be killed if they returned to Jeddah, where the man she was forced to marry lives.
The judge’s decision to grant her asylum in Britain, she had previously been turned down, only came to light in July. The princess expresses how she fears being hunted across London by both her husband and her father. Consequently, she expresses her distrust of the British Government and concern that officials might betray her whereabouts.
“I feared the Home Office would give my details to my husband and my life would be in immediate danger,”
“I am aware that Saudi Arabia is an important business partner of the UK. I am also aware of the power of my husband’s family and also my father in such business dealings.”
“I was very concerned that my situation could become compromised.”
The Saudi Princess had an Islamic education at first, then was sent to a Western school, however taken out after two years when it was decided she would marry a senior member of the Saudi Royal family.
“The marriage was arranged by my father, who is a close friend to the royal family, and my marriage was a symbol of their friendship- I was a gift.
“The marriage was never consummated and I remained a virgin. Due to his age, his medical conditions and the wishes of his other wives, my husband rarely slept in the same room as me.”
It was a trip to Harrods where she was shopping with her made, where she met the man who would father her daughter.
The princess learned of her pregnancy only when she suffered morning sickness and at first confided in only her personal servants. She confessed to her mother, where to this day, the mother secretly funds the princess’s life in London with money sent by Western Union.
‘I wanted to have an abortion so that I could continue to lead a normal life with my family, but this was not possible in Saudi Arabia,’ recalls the princess.
'However, she was able to hide her pregnancy by wearing a loose-fitting head-to-toe abaya cloak.
‘I also wore the abaya while sleeping at night,’ she says. ‘This is common practice for Saudi women.
‘As my husband and I never slept together, it was easy to hide my growing body from him. In addition, my bump was very small and I didn’t gain much excess weight.’
As the pregnancy neared full-term, the princess convinced her husband once again that she needed to visit Britain for medical reasons.
It was during this stay that she gave birth to her child in a London hospital.
Sexualism in the Middle-East
Middle Eastern men had so many wives that the women are more malleable and easily controlled. Even with the stereotype of Middle Eastern women of being belly dancers came about in the nineteenth century from a performer called “Little Egypt”. “Little Egypt”, had performed a provocative dance that branded the women of the Middle East women as sensual and also being mocked by the performance, “the repeated representation … Middle East belly dancers and harem girls.”
Photo credit: Keith Drosin
Culture appropriation
Simran Randhawa is the assistant politics editor at gal-dem. She is also a writer, model and digital influencer who has been featured in publications such as Dazed and Nylon.
Simran said: I’m really proud of the representation I am giving South Asian girls on digital media. I can’t be a spokesperson for us all, but through my work I have been able to provide wider representation for brown girls in the diaspora and show them they’re worthy and can be part of the fashion industry, which I think is pretty important.
Simran Randhawa specialises in issues surrounding ethnicity and racism. She is involved with online magazine gal-dem, where she writes articles based on ethnicity. She performs spoken word poetry, her recent performance was ‘My Mother’s Dream’.
Describe your Poetry?
My inspiration come from my culture, identity, and family.
What inspired your piece, ‘My Mother’s Dream’?
My experience of going to university in Bristol, and the ‘culture shock’ I found it to be, specifically in terms of casual cultural appropriation and the pre-conceived assumptions people approached encounters with me with.
“For the longest time I rejected my culture and heritage,” Randhawa explains “But going to uni really triggered the realisation that all my comfort was in my culture.”
“There’s something genuinely inspiring about Randhawa’s aesthetic to a generation who have quietly let white girls co-opt something they themselves are too awkward to wear” Tara Joshi
‘what’s my voice?’. And it came down to the realisation that I should really try to explore my South Asian background. I want to interrogate that identity.”
“When I was growing up, I was a classic ‘coconut’: I felt like I didn’t really belong anywhere – you belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time, so it’s really surreal,” says Vadoliya, “But now I realise what an advantage it is that I can speak to both – I can celebrate that.”
Photography by Misha Meghna
Dejah Nayah
Collecting Imagery of women of colour through fashion photography. Also recording editorial graphic design.
The layout is simple but focuses more of the content and meaning of the photography. This will be useful when designing, by creating more of a simplified approach which strengthen my skills as a designer as the final piece will be more digital and editorial.
The use of contrast between object and portrait photography helps break up the layout. This will be useful when designing as the photographs will not look repetitive.
Faiyaz Kolia
With this photography piece, the artist has focused on features to identify the individual. The could be a possible route by zooming into features to create a sense of individuality.
Kiran Gidda
Fashion photography explores women of colour, empowers woman of colour and celebrates the Eastern and Western culture, how these two cultures have become a new culture in todays society.
With this photography, the examples are more contemporary and explore real identity rather than culture appropriation. This could be a possible path of how in todays society has evolved and become a new culture from migration and how society has become more diverse and authentic.
The feedback given was to focus on more of an original piece to celebrate the new culture of the Eastern and Western society collaborating. It conveys the message well of social friction as well as empowering migration, it has a different approach which the media has not explored in pop culture.
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