2021
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FEST
RE—CIRCULATION
Re-Fest 2021’s theme, “Re-Circulation” uses the literal and metaphoric phenomenon of circulation to explore strategies for exchanging art, ideas, and information in unexpected ways, fostering interconnection and creativity.
In an era when our technological platforms are susceptible to manipulation and personal devices can lead to feelings of isolation, Re-Fest brings people together to pose questions and challenge the status quo. Who controls the pathways, nodes, and points of access? How might we create more organic, empowered, safe, just, or empathic circulatory systems? What new tools, models, and practices might come forward?
Naomieh Jovin
Naomieh Jovin shares her experience as a Haitian American image maker, shaped by the resilient women in her family. “When I told my godmother that I wanted to become a photographer, she jokingly asked me, ‘So you can go to Haiti, be like all the other journalists and photograph just the bad stuff?’ This is every Haitian immigrant’s story: We are here in America and all we see in the news is a grim representation of the home we know and love.”
Produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and published in The Nation.