Fatherland is a project in progress coming to terms with the reality of being a part of the ongoing human diaspora.

In 2009 I began to make images exploring the theme of how memory functions to help us to ‘never forget.’ I visited places that were official ‘genocide’ sites such as Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, but I also began to visit other places like Tol Sleung and Choeung ek in Cambodia. I also visited Holocaust museums and communities such as Skokie where large populations of genocide survivors had moved after the war. The images below are the beginning of an ongoing series, Mein Father.

While I didn’t incorporate my family’s story at the time, it was the beginning of the larger series that is now If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, which seeks to ask personal questions of my own life as an immigrant in Canada with a family, and how that connects to the history of diaspora, displacement and resilience of my people.