Wet’suwet’en resistance
Wet’suwet’en have been living in balanced relationship with this glacial river as well as the salmon, the bear, moose and berries that depend on it, for at least 6000 years. The Canadian courts have recognized the territory as un-ceded—meaning Wet’suwet’en have never given it up and no treaty was ever signed. But, while Canadian discourse […]
Goodbye Padmini: A Portrait of Urban Memory
Goodbye Padmini is a photographic series by Aparna Jayakumar that reflects on the cultural and visual legacy of the Premier Padmini taxi — once the lifeblood of Mumbai’s streets. Originally introduced to India in the 1960s as the Fiat 1100D and later adapted by Premier Automobiles Limited, the Padmini became a beloved urban icon. With […]
A Lost Place
This project is a personal meditation on the wildfires in my home country of Australia that connects its colonial past with its precarious climate future. Through a series of landscapes and animal specimen images, this work is my attempt at coming to terms with the environmental and personal impact of the recent wildfires in New […]
Beyond Alluring Horizons
This series explores urban landscapes and architectural transformation through a distinct engagement with the panoramic format. Challenging conventional representations of architecture, the work highlights the temporal and spatial ambiguities of urban environments. Expansive horizontal compositions reveal the interplay between permanence and impermanence, horizontality and verticality, and the shifting dynamics of construction, decay, and renewal. The […]
“SON”
“SON” is a deeply personal and socially engaged photographic project dedicated to the life of my child with autism. As both a mother and a photographer, I faced the challenge—and the responsibility—of turning an intimate, often painful reality into images shared with the world. This work is a story about love, silence, and the search […]
Out of Gaza
Tells the stories of Palestinian wounded people who were injured in the recent war on Gaza, And those who receive treatment here in Qatar Fatima Abu Shaar’s 14-year-old son had just cooked his first meal, a moment of celebration at a time when celebration was scarce. “It tastes great,” she recalls telling him. Then the […]
Lignes de vie
This aerial photo series explores the salt marshes of Camargue, a unique South of France landscape where raw nature, human labor, and striking aesthetics converge. By rising above this land shaped by human hands, I sought to reveal the abstract beauty of these functional landscapes, often invisible from the ground. Through drawn lines, geometric basins, […]
Annotations in my grandfather’s Quran
This project explores how individuals use sacred religious texts especially the Quran to preserve personal memories and cultural heritage. At the heart of the story is my grandfather, Abdulredha Dhiaa Al-Deen, born in 1933 in Karbala, Iraq. Over the course of his life, he witnessed major historical turning points: World War II, the fall of […]
This Too Will Fade
A quiet hymn to the ordinary sacred – A mother’s gaze, tender and aching, traces the fleeting shapes of her family— the way her husband’s shoulders catch the light differently at forty. The way a child’s limb stretch toward an unwritten future. Fragile as breath, hold what time cannot: the soft collapse of a child’s […]
portraits of the Multiverse
“Portraits of the Multiverse” is a visual investigation between Sadith Silvano, master of the Shipibo “Kené’’ artform and myself. Started in 2022, the project generates a visual dialogue about the Amazonian multiverse by combining photography with ancestral Kené embroidery. Our collaboration addresses sustainability from an environmental and cultural perspective, questioning the colonial fracture that separates […]