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“When cages fly” by

The underlying story, “Where Prison Is a Kind Of Freedom,” originally featured in sheds light
on the lives of women incarcerated for liberating themselves from abusive and violent marriages
through drastic measures. This book navigates the delicate balance between freedom and captivity,
both physical and metaphorical.

Divided into three compelling chapters with minimal textual intervention and accompanied with a
supplementary booklet, encourages viewers to engage actively in crafting their own
interpretations of the depicted reality. Central to the book’s thematic exploration is an enclosed
middle chapter, a metaphorical prison.

Softcover
127 photographs printed in full-color and tritone
225 x 175 mm
246 pages + 24 pages
Photographer/Author: Hayeri
Design: /
ISBN 978-1-7380935-0-2
1st edition - March 2024

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State of Emergency by

State of Emergency - Harakati za Mau Mau kwa Haki, Usawa na Ardhi Yetu is an ongoing documentary project in collaboration with Mau Mau war veterans and Kenyans who survived colonial atrocities. In the form of in-person reenactments, or ‘demonstrations’, together they (re)visualise the fight for independence from British colonial rule in the 1950s, manifesting their past experiences in the present with a future audience in mind.
With most of the colonial archives deliberately destroyed, hidden or manipulated, this project attempts to shine a light on this history’s blind spots by creating new ‘imagined records’ that fill in the missing gaps of historical archives.
State of Emergency interweaves fragmentary colonial archives, photographs of architectural and symbolic remnants from the past, mass grave sites, demonstrations and the testimonies of people who experienced and survived the war themselves.

Flexible hardcover
30 x 24 cm, 448 pages�
ISBN 9789082465563
Self-published by Max Pinckers, 2024�
Text in English and Swahili

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