Abstract
2023 marked the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, an event that casts a long shadow over Jananne Al-Ani’s practice as an artist. This article is an edited transcript of an artist’s talk delivered at the Fast Forward Women in Photography conference held at the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb in November 2023. Al-Ani presented a selection of photographic and moving image installations highlighting preoccupations that have continued to inform her work over the last two decades, from the power of eyewitness testimony and the representation of contested landscapes marked by conflict, to the complex geopolitical relations that link Britain to the formation of the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the first world war. Alongside her own work Al-Ani presented a range of archival material, from reconnaissance photographs of the Western Front to the work of early pioneers of aerial photography and archaeology, in order to examine how historic visual material informs and influences how the present is represented and understood.
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