Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
I am browsing through my folders this morning, partly to self-soothe, partly just to keep my mind busy - to not feel what I am feeling right now. I find myself in a space where I don’t know how to be useful. Photography is my language, my gift in making people feel seen and heard. But today, I feel useless. I have no tools. Lately, I have been spending a lot of time just sitting in silence and meditating. Waiting for something to reveal itself - a shift, an answer, anything really. Portrait of Chrysea & Izak going through a breakup 2021
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@jonathancolton
My thoughts based on a previous chat we had about what's happening and feeling useless. You have always captured the beauty of humanity, telling your subjects stories, especially those of the often unseen. Why not apply those super powers to telling immigrant/migrant stories. You live in Florida which is loaded with many immigrant stories. America’s superpower has always been the combination of immigration and entrepreneurial drive. The list of immigrants and their descendants who founded iconic American companies is long—and still being written. Our new comers will someday be on the list of entrepreneurs, service members (1st responder and military), artists, nurses and doctors. Now is the time to tell immigrant stories so we can all reconnect with our personal stories and help others create theirs.
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Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
I thought about it, but, many people are in hiding now and I don’t want to make them feel even more compromised and endangered. I have to think about them first, and only as secondary thing what I think I can apply myself with. I have always been shooing in small local Latin grocery stores. Last two weeks when I go in I can feel how much things changed, everyone is rushing out of the way or lowers their eyes. I notice these subtle, but very noticeable changes. I do want to show the contrast of experience and the banality of evil - white FL people enjoying nightlife as if nothing is happening and all non-white areas being more eerie and less crowded at the same time.
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Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
By the way, I posted about immigrant on ig about a month ago and that post got shadow banned. How insane is that? Thats when I KNEW where we are going… (This portrait )
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