These photos show northern Afghanistan, especially the area around Mazar-e-Sharif, from the years 2008–2010 when American and ISAF troops were in force and the war in Afghanistan was ongoing. Mazar is an ancient city, one which could be found centuries ago on the Silk...
How do we depict the lives of migrants? As they appear in news broadcasts, magazine covers, and documentary subjects, refugees express the vivid precarity of their movement. Sprawled across territories, standing together in camps, or facing yet another difficult...
At the tip of my tongue: Belarus. I was born there in 1986. I left it as many times as I returned, but since 2021 there is no coming back. I come from an artistic family. My grandfather, orphaned at the age of three, once took his grief-filled rhymes to the acclaimed...
Editor’s Note: Yelena K. is a pseudonym for the artist. Consequence Forum has agreed not to disclose the artist’s real name for fear of persecution for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. Only through art can I express the wound from the war within me.—Yelena K....
