Alex & I: Against Indifference
This text and photo essay concerns a series of portraits made with a community of Tamil refugees living in Bangkok who refer to themselves as ‘the Bachelors.’ The project was initiated by refugee and one-time media figure, Sanjeev ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah who hoped his peers would tell their own storie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/4715 |
| Summary: | This text and photo essay concerns a series of portraits made with a community of Tamil refugees living in Bangkok who refer to themselves as ‘the Bachelors.’ The project was initiated by refugee and one-time media figure, Sanjeev ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah who hoped his peers would tell their own stories to an ‘international community.’ With reference to Judith Butler’s Frames of War (2009), I have sought to ‘discursively frame’ the images by considering the discrimination these young single men encounter living in the margins of this South Asian metropolis, awaiting the outcomes of their re-settlement applications.
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| ISSN: | 1837-5391 |