Jillian Edelstein, Here and There: An Expedition of Sorts

Here and There: An Expedition of Sorts

Jillian Edelstein

Publisher
GOST Books
Year
2024
ISBN
978-1-915423-00-9
Specifications
Hardback
245 x 190 mm, portrait
264 pages
166 images

The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. Here and There documents Edelstein's family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement. A shaman told Edelstein that her own ancestors were in conflict, fuelling her growing determination to untangle her family's hidden history. Thus Edelstein began a journey that took her from her home in London to the heartland of the Ukraine, and to her grandfather's birthplace in Latvia. In turn the journey led her to the shores of Lesvos, the West Bank, the Jungle in Calais, to the boat graveyard on the island of Lampedusa. Edelstein refracts images and stories of displaced people through the lens of her family's own mystery—reaching the refugee history we all have in common.

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