Word: almerisa
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...Dijkstra adds the effects of time on conceptions of the self in a beautiful series of four photographs, taken of the same Bosnian refugee in the Netherlands over a period of six years. The girl, Almerisa, sits on a chair facing the same direction in all four shots, though the chair and the room change in each picture...
...first photograph shows a tiny girl with a blank, almost intrepid stare ripe with meaning and emotion. The subsequent portraits show Almerisa slowly shedding both the exterior trappings of her homeland and of childhood. In the last photograph, she is coyishly defiant, slouching slightly on the chair with her legs apart and a very knowing expression on her face. She no longer looks the part of a refugee, and she is no longer a child...
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