“Marking Time: Photographs from Dheisheh refugee Camp,” is part of the project, “Conversations on the Periphery,” a study of the evolving conversation through murals on the walls of the camp. This selection of eight photographs was first featured in the exhibit, Waiting Rooms of History, at the Kunstverein Paderborn, May-June, 2016. An expanded version was shown in Woodbridge, Connecticut in 2018. Another exhibition is planned for 2020." (Olin 2014-18)
Margaret Olin introduces what she calls the “performative index” where the photograph performs a relation that may or may not depend on actual resemblance (2012). When families view my whimsical photos of these children facing opposition they may find a figurative resemblance to their own struggling child, OR at the same time make a connection to a ‘normal’ healthy, well adjusted child because of the nature in which the children in the project are illustrated in the home and final images; happy, hopeful, playful. Childhood and children’s imagination have cultural consistencies and because the children are presented in both lights, as struggling yet playing in ‘normal’ childhood ways, a broader connection can be made to a larger scope of people.
OLIN, Margaret. 2012.Touching Photographs. University of Chicago Press.
OLIN, Margaret. 2019-2018. Links to Ongoing and Past Projects [online]. Available at: https://touchingphotographs.com/photography/
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