Visualizing Translation: Photography Exhibit opens at Ann Arbor Public Library (October 9, 2021) – Translate Midwest

Visualizing Translation: Photography Exhibit opens at Ann Arbor Public Library (October 9, 2021)

In October and November 2021, the Ann Arbor District Library will host a photography exhibit, curated by UM Professor Kristin Dickinson.

Entitled Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund, the exhibit brings together photographs of Southwest Detroit (created by photojournalist Theon Delgado) and Northern Dortmund, Germany (created by photojournalist Peyman Azhari).

Shedding light on each neighborhood’s histories of migration, the exhibit offers an intimate look at immigrant-owned businesses; multilingual signage; and striking images of graffiti, street art, and other forms of visual creative expression. Together, these photographs prompt us to consider the many meanings of home and homeland from a multilingual perspective.

The exhibit runs from October 4-November 29, 2021 in the third floor gallery of the Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Branch (345 South Fifth Ave in Ann Arbor).

Click here to read a recap and watch a video of the live panel on October 9.

VISIT THIS LINK for more information and a glimpse of the exhibit.

Visualizing Translation:

Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund

A virtual panel discussion with photojournalists Theon Delgado Sr. and Peyman Azhari,

moderated by Kristin Dickinson and Alan Chin (Facing Change: Documenting America)

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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