Alissa Everett
California born, Nairobi based artist, Alissa Everett has visited over 130 countries and since 2003 has been covering and photographing conflict and ethnic issues that still remain today in places such as Iraq, Darfur, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most recently Alissa travelled to the Ukrainian border with The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to document the humanitarian response efforts. Here Everett tells Candice Tucker about her work and her latest solo exhibition, Covering Beauty
We Carried Our Work, Kigeme, Rwanda, 2012
Open to view at the Venice Biennale until 27 November 2022 is Everett?s solo exhibition Covering Beauty, part of the sixth edition of Personal Structures at the European Cultural Centre (?ECC?) for the 59th Venice Biennale. The aim of the exhibition is for people to see the beauty within these places of conflict that Everett has visited, which are normally only associated with destruction and sadness. Heading Home, Pakistan, 2008
“I would describe myself as a documentary photographer rather than conflict photographer. What speaks to me the most are moments of unexpected beauty that happen in our daily lives, in both conflict and non-conflict zones. The depiction of areas which are labelled by conflict are often skewed by the negative, and people rarely get the chance to see the moments of beauty which exist.
Transit camp for Ukrainian refugees in Hu?i, Romania.
The images in Covering Beauty o...