How do they see themselves in the future? What do they draw strength and pleasure from? Cigdem features the answers in the photos.Ī New Beginning is part of the transmedia project Shadow Game, a project by Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel, made in close collaboration with journalist, researcher and translator Zuhoor al Qaisi. How would they portray that themselves? But she also looks at their vision of the future. To find the right images to tell their story, Cigdem asked the young people what feeling, image, shape and colors they envision when they think back to certain events during their journey, when they think about their fears, nightmares, the parents. Together with Cigdem, these young people have been looking for a way to tell their story. They look cool and tough, but they are also fragile.
Who were they before their flight, who they have become and what do they want to be? The young people express themselves through tattoos, poems, rap or Instagram posts. April 15 to May 6 at the Spui, Buitenhof and Hofweg, The HagueĪ New Beginning is a project by photographer Cigdem Yuksel about young people who, after their flight to the Netherlands, search for their (new) identity.
