{"product_id":"65469-louise-amelie","title":"Louise Amelie","description":"Louise Amelie's documentary series is an artistic exploration of the global phenomenon of migration and its many facets, which are often overlooked in the migration policy discourse in this country. Migration has existed since the beginning of human history and will always continue. Nevertheless, migration is portrayed as an anomaly, while the existence of national borders is rarely questioned. Although Kyrgyzstan nestles inconspicuously against Kazakhstan and China on the globe, locally the vastness and heights of the mountainous region seem infinite. Contrary to its natural state, huge prefabricated housing estates are shooting up in the capital Bishkek. Here lives a young and alert population that, despite all the adversities of post-Soviet reality, confidently faces the world. In a collection of portrait texts and photographs that focus on the essence of people, the book expresses solidarity and empathy for the fact that migration can mean both an opportunity and the painful loss of beloved missing members. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus of the artistic work of director and photographer LOUISE AMELIE (*1991, Berlin) is documentary photography. Her series created in the USA between 2016 – 2020 have been exhibited internationally and have won awards such as the German Photobook Prize. Since 2021, she has been exploring post-Soviet identity and migration in Central Asia and worked in Kyrgyzstan for two and a half months for this project.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49755247542536,"sku":"9783775755573","price":44.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755573_8c4cdd3f-6127-43bf-9a16-1af52eb52c9b.jpg?v=1744285820","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/65469-louise-amelie","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}