Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner „MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE“
Michael Danner
MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE
Photographs 2008-2017
With historical image documents of refugees and UNO satellite pictures from crisis regions
Design Anja Kaiser
Hardcover 20×31cm
120 pages, English
Verlag Kettler, Dortmund
Descriptions
"Crossing borders and stepping into the unknown can involve danger and fear. Migrants face exploitation, xenophobia or feel isolated because they have lost what we take for granted: shared language, social recognition, relatives and friends. They bring new perspectives and points of view through which host communities might feel challenged or threatened. Change inevitably leads to conflicts that societies must face, challenges that through confrontation can begin a dialogue. Investigating the construction and function of images can allow us to rethink our preconceptions on the issue of migration, an investigation which particularly applies also to such images in the media. We can create a space with the aim of continuing this dialogue, learning to empathize, and asking questions about our shared responsibility on such global issues.
Embracing the new by welcoming people from other countries can strengthen our societies by making them more diverse and flexible, we benefit from the drive and force to start new lives, which migrants bring. This experience can re-connect us to ourselves, to our own history and identity as well as it connects us to the newcomers. Our differences teach us that ultimately, the line between us and them is very thin: We are all migrants."–Michael Danner
Embracing the new by welcoming people from other countries can strengthen our societies by making them more diverse and flexible, we benefit from the drive and force to start new lives, which migrants bring. This experience can re-connect us to ourselves, to our own history and identity as well as it connects us to the newcomers. Our differences teach us that ultimately, the line between us and them is very thin: We are all migrants."–Michael Danner
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