Exhibit

Reda Semlani

These pictures have been captured during my fieldwork in the provinces of Agadir and Taroudant, Morocco. The pictures show the Argan plant in its different forms, and explain the many processes that the plant undergoes in today’s Argan oil market. Each picture illustrates new opportunities, such as income and environmental protection, but also depicts new threats and challenges to the local Amazighs’ relationship with the Argan tree. Upon viewing this project, I ask the audience to reflect on the compromises that the indigenous Amazighs have to consider in their involvement in this emerging market.

Frishta Qaderi

These photos present the view of the Amu River from both Afghanistan and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. By juxtaposing Afghan (and British) and Soviet representations of the river from the same period, I depict how one river existed in multiple imaginations. I challenge the viewer to unravel representations of nature and to consider how social, economic, and political aspirations are imbued within them.

Geri Augusto

If trees could witness, if waters could see, if construction-sites could speak...Don't they? My photos seek to capture landscapes and architectures, some ephemeral and ever-changing, some deeply rooted but contested, listening and watching for the human stories they impart, even as I shy away from capturing people in their frames.