A new tiny exhibition came in via post!
Together with this artist I worked in an educational publishing house. Here our interests crossed and from that this exhibition grew.
Iris Nibbering is a photographer who researched how the border in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, is influencing the life of the youth on the island.
The borders between North Cyprus and South Cyprus are not fully open. Which means that people – visitors (EU) and Cypriots – can freely cross between both sides of the island. The people from the Turkish side can't cross freely. How would this imbalance influence their way of living? Cyprus has been a divided island since 1974 when Turkey invaded the north in response to a military coup on the island which was backed by the Athens government.
Iris studies photography in The Hague. She is the first one presenting a series of photographs in the border gallery. She has many stories to tell you. She is looking from a perspective of social geography and wrote her master thesis about the area. She cares a lot about the life of the young people living on the island. Ask her and she will tell many untold and fascinating stories. Thank you Iris Nibbering for sharing your work here and bringing a new narrative of another border of the world to this borderscape.
The Borderscape Team
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