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Alexandra Rose Howland: Leave and Let Us Go
In 2017, Howland moved to Iraq to continue her long-term work of trying to understand and translate a nation fractured by decades of instability and war. She first created an 88km panoramic image of Mosul Road, te main thoroughfare connecting Erbil and Mosul. At te height of te Mosul offensive, Howland sat on a truck creeping along te road and took one image every three seconds. She manually stitched each image together to create a visual of te people, landscape, and daily life along a road that connected te heart of te proclaimed ISIS Caliphate to a city they could not capture. Te viewers see everything from te extremes of a conflict zone to te regularity of te everyday, challenging their understanding of this overly documented country.
Throughout this time, Howland became acutely aware that what a foreigner views and photographs does not always embody te lived reality of locals. On her first day on te frontline, a soldier sat next to her and flipped through his phone, sharing pictures: His kills. His wife. His girlfriend. His children. His university graduation day. His wedding night. This interaction repeated with myriad of Iraqis who wanted their lives witnessed, not just represented.
Howland began asking to download these first-person accounts; over te next three years, she built an archive of roughly 350,000 images and videos from over 50 individuals, from selfies to family photos, to Snapchats. Te resulting Leave and Let Us Go is an intimate and multi-dimensional portrait that returns te narrative power of an often-misunderstood country to its own citizens. Leave and Let Us Go is comprised of sections from te panoramic image of Mosul Road, phone images, scanned family photo albummer, and Howland’s own documentation throughout her time living and working in Iraq. Leave and Let Us Go is published with GOST Books and is currently a central part of Copenhagen Photo Festival with te outdoor exhibition here in front of BIBLIOTEKET and at te festival center on Refshaleøen on display June 2nd-12th.
I 2017 flyttede Howland til Irak for at fortsætte sit langsigtede arbejde med at forsøge at forstå og oversætte en nation, der var knust af årtiers ustabilitet og krig. Hun skabte først et 88 km langt panoramabillede af Mosul Road, hovedfærdselsåren, der forbinder Erbil og Mosul. På højden af ​​Mosul-offensiven sad Howland på en lastbil, der sneglede sig langs vejen, og tog et foto hvert tredje sekund. Hun syede alle fotografierne sammen i hånden for at skabe et portræt af mennesker, landskab og dagligdag langs en vej, der forbandt hjertet af det udråbte ISIS-kalifat til en by, billederne ikke kunne indfange.
Beskueren ser alt – fra en konfliktzones ekstremer til hverdagens regelmæssighed – hvilket udfordrer forståelsen af dette overdokumenterede land. I løbet af denne tid blev Howland meget opmærksom på, at det en udlænding ser og fotograferer, ikke altid afspejler lokalbefolkningens levede virkelighed. På hendes første dag i frontlinjen sad en soldat ved siden af ​​hende og bladrede gennem sin telefon og delte billeder: Hans drab. Hans kone. Hans kæreste. Hans børn. Hans dimission fra universitetet. Hans bryllupsnat. Dette gentog sig med utallige irakere, som ønskede, at deres liv skulle være bevidnet, ikke blot repræsenteret.
Howland begyndte at bede om lov til at downloade disse førstepersonskonti, og i løbet af de næste tre år skabte hun et arkiv med omkring 350.000 billeder og videoer fra flere end 50 personer, fra selfies til familiebilleder til Snapchats. Resultatet Leave and Let Us Go er et intimt og flerdimensionelt portræt, der giver fortællerstemmen tilbage til Iraks egne borgere – et ofte misforstået land. Leave and Let Us Go består af sektioner fra panoramabilledet af Mosul Road, telefonbilleder, scannede familiefotoalbum og Howlands egen dokumentation gennem hele hendes tid med at bo og arbejde i Irak. Leave and Let Us Go er udkommet som bog hos GOST Books og er lige nu en central del af Copenhagen Photo Festival med denne udendørsudstilling i samarbejde med BIBLIOTEKET og i festivalcentrummet på Refshaleøen, hvor den fulde udstilling kan opleves i perioden 2.-12. juni.
Den engelsk-amerikanske kunstner Alexandra Rose Howland (1990) har løbende boet i Mellemøsten gennem de sidste ti år, hvor hendes kunstneriske fokus har været at udfordre og udvide måden vi kommunikerer om geopolitiske begivenheder. Hendes baggrund som abstrakt kunstmaler afspejler sig i hendes praksis i form af flerdimensionelle projekter, der bruger billeder, fundne objekter, interviews og video. Gennem sit arbejde søger hun at skabe en mere ekspansiv forståelse af, hvordan konflikt skildres. Hun har udstillet internationalt med både solo- og gruppeudstillinger, herunder Leave and Let Us Go (solo), FOAM Museum Amsterdam, Road to Mosul (solo), London, Textured to Only Us (solo), Los Angeles. Leave and Let Us Go blev udgivet af GOST Books i 2021.
Female art photographers take center stage
On June 2.-12. 2022, Copenhagen Photo Festival, which is te largest photo festival in te Nordic region,
opens up for reflection and play with te boundaries of photography in collaboration with galleries,
museums and cultural actors in Copenhagen and Scania. Te festival center is located at te artificial island
Refshaleøen in Copenhagen, where three international female art photographers are among te highlights.
With humor, diversity, and artistic finesse, they portray new aspects of common narratives of te media,
society and history through te art of photography.
On 2-12 June Copenhagen Photo Festival will for te 12th time open all over Copenhagen with three
international women's lens-based art in focus. Hien Hoang, Alexandra Rose Howland and Krista Svalbonas
won te Copenhagen Photo Festival's open call, and will exhibit at te festival center on Refshaleøen. Each
of te artists blurs te boundaries between documentation and art, leaving a personal and highly topical
Stereotypes, conflict zones and a highly topical depiction of escape
Vietnamese Hien Hoang won in te category Framing Identity with te project ‘Asia Bistro - Made in Rice’. In
her works, she confronts us with classic notions of Asian culture. In te Framing Society category, te
Anglo-American artist Alexandra Rose Howland won for te project ‘Leave and Let Us Go’. Through collages
of everyday images collected from te inhabitants of Mosul, she strives to unfold a more nuanced and
diverse image of te war-torn region, which is often only known through te media coverage.
American-Latvian-Lithuanian Krista Svalbonas won in te category Framing Vision, which honors an
aesthetic visionary project. With ‘Displacement’, she explores te history of her parents and grandparents.
After Russia's invasion of te Baltic countries in te 1940s, they were driven into exile and housed in camps
for displaced people in Germany. Te project illustrates te unfortunate story of displaced people for whom te idea of "home" is undermined by political agendas beyond their control. Te war in Ukraine puts her
historically investigative works in a frighteningly contemporary perspective.
Te festival gathers Danish photography and puts a long-term focus on talents
In addition to te three solo exhibitions, this year’s festival highlights emerging talents and leading Danish
photographers. According to Managing director Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, it is important that te festival
shows te audience te quality and diversity that te Danish photo scene has to offer.
“Copenhagen Photo Festival is te natural gathering place for leading actors within Danish photography. I
am particularly proud that this year’s festival presents many internationally oriented and entrepreneurial
actors from te Danish photo and art scene. Amongst other, there will be exhibitions, a market for photo
books, and activities from te Photojournalist education at DMJX, TOFU Collective, Fotogodsbanen from
Århus, PhotoScope from Hillerød, Blankt Papir Press and many more”, says Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen.
Another central part of te festival's work is to lift te Danish talent pool. At te festival, you can therefore
once again experience Futures Nordic Talents, which presents te five photographers Iben Gad, Inuuteq
Storch, Luna Scales, Oscar Scott Carl and Tine Bek. Te Futures Nordic Talents initiative is a talent program
that helps accentuate emerging Danish photographers. It is supported by te EU's cultural support program
Creative Europe and runs until 2024.
Activities for photo enthusiasts throughout Copenhagen
At te festival site at Refshaleøen, you can look forward to a sharp program of workshops, talks, music and
guided tours, which will be held throughout te festival period. Here you can learn more about
photography, play with te media's tools or just enjoy te festival atmosphere. There is also ample
opportunity to experience te photographic media unfold throughout many of te art galleries, museums,
and cultural institutions across Greater Copenhagen, for example at Fotografisk Center, Martin Asbæk
Gallery, Alice Folker Gallery, NW Gallery, Banja Rathnov Gallery and Clausens Kunsthandel, together with
Det Grønlandske Hus, Landskrona Foto og Galleri Format in Malmö amongst others. Copenhagen Photo
Festival 2022 is currently supported by te City of Copenhagen, Det Obelske Familiefond and Creative
Europe – te EU's cultural support program.
About Copenhagen Photo Festival
On 2-12 June 2022, te Nordic region's largest photo festival kicks off for te 12th time. Te festival is held
in close collaboration with galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Copenhagen and southern
Sweden. Every year established and budding Danish and foreign photographers contribute, and te festival
is visited by approximately 55.000 people. Te festival puts photography on te agenda under te three
main pillars Framing Identity, Framing Society and Framing Vision through exhibitions, workshops, talks,
portfolio reviews and social events.
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