How are diasporic communities depicted in photography? What stories from the diaspora do photobooks tell? And how do images from the diaspora expand our view of society? The exhibition Paths in Flux: Images from the Diaspora focuses on photobooks that seek to use the medium of photography to capture and give visual expression to individual diasporic experiences and diasporic communities in Europe, North America and Asia.
The exhibition provides intimate insights into Chinese diasporic communities in Singapore and Malaysia, which the photographer Wei Leng Tay portrays in her book Convergence, it makes the history of a neighbourhood of St. Louis, USA, visible by presenting the historical photographic material by Black communities and families collected for the project North Webster: A Photographic History of a Black Community or shows the work of the Swiss-Vietnamese artist Thi My Lien Nguyen, who is researching the migration history of her own family.
