JH Engström’s photography emerges from the tension between places, memories, energies, and uncertainty. Moving between rural Värmland and Paris, he has built a deeply personal practice that embraces accident, vulnerability, and mystery. Now exploring painting, film, and writing, Engström remains committed to staying close to what he does not understand.
For Oumayma Ben Tanfous, photography became a way of returning to Tunisia, twenty years after leaving. Her debut photobook, Between I and Lands, brings together images and journal entries shaped by childhood memories, distance and belonging. Through the work, she explores the fragile relationship between place, identity and the feeling of home.
Olgaç Bozalp discusses growing up disconnected in Konya, discovering photography through acting, and rejecting the “hybrid” identity label. He reflects on photographing his father, diaspora communities, and Islamic countries where using his middle name “Mustafa” brought unexpected belonging. He explores fashion versus art, diversity’s uneven progress, and his patient, relational approach to portraiture.
In this interview, photographer Thana Faroq discusses her Yemeni roots, unconventional academic path blending politics with photography, and acclaimed book ‘I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows’. She reflects on exile, identity, and long-term relationships with subjects in asylum centers, her use of text as image, mentorship of women photographers, and her debut film ‘Imagine Me Like a Country of Love’.
From the trauma of the 1993 Sivas massacre to documenting wars, displacement and political upheaval across Turkey and the Middle East, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen reflects on memory, conflict, hope and the responsibility of bearing witness. A deeply personal conversation about photography as history, evidence and an enduring act of conscience.
For more than four decades, Ed Kashi has documented some of the world’s defining human, environmental and social crises through photography and film. In this conversation with Emaho, the acclaimed National Geographic photographer reflects on visual storytelling, long-form documentary practice, climate change, conflict, multimedia journalism, and why bearing witness remains one of photography’s most enduring responsibilities.
