Long Term Project No place like home
Galery on request
Graduation cum laude Fotoacademie with the long term project
No place like home. Art Grant Materiaal / Kwadraat fonds for the exhibition
During the Dutch minority government (2010-2012) erroneous slogans about “free politics” became a real issue, as a more restrictive policy towards asylum seekers was implemented.
Expelling refugees from the Netherlands had more prior than giving them asylum.
This was illustrated by the decision taken in 2012 to diminish the number of available places at the COA shelters (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers).
The media estimated the reduction numbering between 1500 and 2100. Refugees were becoming an abstract object.
The photos portray the life of a single Somali woman who is 68 years old. She was the driving force that led me to follow the non-status refugees living in the Netherlands.
Fatima Omar wanders through the Dutch shelters.
She joined an organized group of refugees without status called “We are here” at the shelter campus Notweg in Amsterdam and at the Flight Church.
She has become entrenched to the Dutch Soil.