Go see the work of #globaldesigngraduateshow in collaboration with @gucci Winner Photography category Saskia Kahn @ohsaskia 📸📸📸 graduate Photography + Media & Society (MFA) at MICA Maryland Institute College of Art @marylandinstitutecollegeofart @micagrad is currently on view at the Falmouth Street entrance to Manhattan Beach Park, presented by NYC Arts in the Parks @nycparks - commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and acknowledges the profound impact of the storm on the lives of New Yorkers. ✨I CAN SMELL THE WATER ✨ Unearthing a photo album that was in the flood of my home during Hurricane Sandy instigated my series, I can smell the water. When I saw these family photos for the first time, the black and white silver halide prints were brutally pressed against small plastic sleeves on detached metal spines. The photos were of my grandmother in Palestine just a few years after surviving the Holocaust. In the majority of the pictures, she is smiling on a beach. I was struck by how many generations of my family have been living by the sea, working with it, getting joy from it, defining ourselves by it -- even my last name Kahn means small boat in German. Later, I learned that the sea was also the place where most of her family was killed during the Liepaja massacre in 1941, as they were ordered to face the sea before their death. The sea has complexities for me and many who come from diasporic histories. It heals wounds of displacement, but not without the recollection of collective memory. Link 🔗 to Saskia's website https://www.saskiakahn.com/i-can-smell-the-water-2 or from Image 🔗 link in bio See Saskia's winning series on ARTS THREAD Skatepark Baltimore https://www.artsthread.com/events/globaldesigngraduateshow/fine-art-photography-craft#/project/skatepark-baltimore AND read the interview with Saskia in @print_mag https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-remembering-hurricane-sandy/