Title:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon:
Four Journeys in Kosovo
In her 1941 classic of travel literature, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Dame Rebecca West undertakes a two-month journey through Yugoslavia in an attempt to better understand this complex, volatile South-eastern corridor of Europe, as for her it was crucial in beginning to understand, as she put it, “my own destiny.”
As a travel writer, my project was inevitably born out of a fascination and love for West’s prescient and spiritual writings, and my travels in Kosovo have taken me on an unexpected deviation as I explored the meaning sealed within her pages. Four Journeys in Kosovo is a narrative divided into four chapters: City, Fantasy, Memory, and Periphery.
Unlike West’s masterpiece, which is strictly nonfiction, my own photographs have collectively strayed into realms of fiction, horror, and even magical realism. In Kosovo, I began developing my photographs by hand at home before converting to color transparencies. What remains is evidence of a journey that explores the divide between reality and mystery, and poses the question of whether examining the past can lead to a revelation of our shared human destiny.
Feel free to interact with the projector to view the visual narrative.
Please turn off the power when finished viewing (switch is on the back of the unit).
Interlude is a group exhibition of the participants of the 2025 Program of Werkstatt Photo, a documentary and fine art photography school in Berlin, Germany.
