Immigrant / Migrant Project, 2011

New York City is a city of immigrants. Every wave of immigration left its marks on its neighborhoods and established its own unique patterns of living. Members of a particular group, specified either by ethnicity or religion, flock together as a means of enhancing their social-economic development. Residents mark their neighborhood space by their presence with mundane aspects of their daily lives.

My project aims to disentangle the social aspects applied to the visual representation of ethnicity in urban communities. It also questions the call of the anti-immigrant movements for submission to the dominant, national culture, which creates a constant state of tension between interpretations of the self and the other.