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Artist Statement:

With support from the Summer Scholars and Artists Program at Binghamton University I was able to test run my interdisciplinary research methodology with a documentary style memoir based on my trip to Germany where I drifted my way through 9 different cities, towns and villages.

After returning from my trip to Germany I decided to juxtapose my reflections on history, primarily around WW2, with photographs I took in an attempt to stop time. This trip to the Old World was my first; and it revealed to me my ignorance. Some of my experiences moved me deeply, especially the ones at the Dachau Concentration Camp, where I began to accept that every horrible thing I had ever studied as mere history actually happened. These things weren’t just stories from a far away space and time.

During this trip I took photos with no goal in mind. When I came back with over 5,000 digital photos and 12 rolls of film it felt wrong to minimize my work into 1 by 1 inch squares for social media. What started as a photo book quickly matured into a memoir where the writing became as important as the visuals creating a symbiotic structure. Through this format I reflected on history, war, photography, film, sexual violence against women during war, the Holocaust, the Partition of India, propaganda, truth, trauma, time, loss, loneliness, and modernity. These topics arose organically through my research this summer and my photos served as the backbone that held these ideas together.

This book was my attempt at communicating with the past. A past that never talks back — and so these conversations feel more like a Rorschach test at times.

Artist Bio:

Qinza is a senior majoring in Integrative Neuroscience with a minor in Evolutionary Studies. She is also a filmmaker / photographer who enrolled at Binghamton University with the intention of constructing a research methodology for her creative work.

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Art Gallery Virtual Tour:
9 Days in Deutschland: A Documentary Memoir by Qinza Malik Khan

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