by Ayan Bihi
my recent
insatiable thirst for all
things documentary
lead me to this find;
to be a high
maintenance of
glamour, regardless of
the complete
preoccupation to their
affliction,
the aesthetic is
minimal, allowing the
frame of the
subject to tell their
silenced
story.
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SHE
by ayan bihi
and so,
SHE
tried to undo the damages that had
been done by her past experiences,
SHE
watched from afar as the state
SHE
called home began to unravel like a
piece of yarn, gnawed at by a
ferocious feline
SHE
hides her concerns behind a caked
up façade, making sure no one could
see the ills stirring within her
anxious mind, what do you call a
woman that has no place to call her
own? One who is forced to drift,
placed aside
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HEROINES
an essay by paul ugor
Lincoln Clarkes
redefines
that social space;
from Vancouver’s
Downtown
Eastside as a site of
moral decay and
social
insecurity
to a sphere of
social struggle;
institutionally,
authorities
represent the Downtown
Eastside of
Vancouver and its inhabitants
as a
social
space where crime, addiction,
and poverty are “constructed
as choices”
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within a five-year period,
beginning in 1996, Lincoln
Clarkes shot four hundred
women with drug
addictions in Vancouver’s Downtown
Eastside.
when asked
why he concentrated only on women,
he responded:
“I approach it like Titanic going
down: women and
children first. I don’t have enough life
boats.”
(Smith 18)
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View Lincoln Clarkes photos here:
http://worldwidegreeneyes.com/category/heroines
Read Paul Ugor’s essay here:
http://worldwidegreeneyes.com/heriones-essay
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