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Blue Sky Days
Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold
Tomas van Houtryve
Tomas van Houtryve is an artist, photographer and author. In 2006 he was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 2008, and in 2010 he was named the POYi Photographer of the Year. His work has been exhibited solo and in collections around the world.
More about the author →Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold is a poet and journalist. She is currently a Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.
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Jamaica Kincaid
‘The place we come from, the place we call home, is the home of our suffering.’
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Living Rooms
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‘Before chintziness there was chintz, a fabric produced in India and imported to Europe by colonial traders.’
Sam Johnson-Schlee on what chintz means.
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Ira Mathur and Monique Roffey discuss memoir-writing in the Caribbean and the enduring legacy of colonial rule in Trinidad.
In Conversation
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Momtaza Mehri and Warsan Shire talk about nineties London, parentification and diasporic inheritances.
Brad Watson | Interview
Brad Watson & Patrick Ryan
‘This story did emerge from the single image of the mother, angry, vacuuming while her three boys watched television, a little dumbfounded and afraid. That’s a memory from my childhood that’s always stuck with me.’