Photo Journal Monday: Alison Dias
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Images and Text by Alison Dias
Photo Edited by Yanting Chen
Alison Dias is an Indian multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Hong Kong. She is currently based in New York City where she graduated with a BFA Photography and Minor in Film Production from Parsons School of Design in May 2021.
"I was never able to articulate my understanding of the world until I picked up a camera. As a third-culture child who was shunned by my peers for being ‘different’, I often questioned my own existence and how it differed in my own versus another’s mind. Photography became both a tool and an outlet to express my deep struggles with my own identity that is rooted in the history of issues such as racism, colourism, sexism and childhood abuse and trauma. Not only does my work consist of self and familial documentation, but has also become a source for which people can come to learn the collective struggles of issues existing within the Asian community."
When you walk under the afternoon sun do you talk to your shadow? Do you walk beside it, or do you turn it away? Before I was born, I witnessed violence. It’s in the air. A constant string of manipulation, greed, self loathing and selfishness that consciously follows. By creating redactions of my father in my family archive, I acknowledge that he is in my shadow. I am exploring the effects of generational trauma through the lens of domestic abuse and love.
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