A Polaroid for a Refugee

21/05/2026

Time to book❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

12/05/2026

Pure enjoyment ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

07/05/2026

More info in the previous post❤️

06/05/2026

I started stitching as a way to hold onto images differently—
to slow them down, to touch them, to let them change.
From working with to raise funds through embroidery,
to intervening on personal photographs and found postcards,
this process has become a way of rethinking memory itself.
This workshop is an invitation to do the same.
We will work with thread, images, and fragments of personal stories—
exploring how an anecdote can shift into something visual, tactile, and layered.
No experience needed—just something you want to remember (or reimagine).

Embroidering Stories

St Mary Abbots Centre
Vicarage Gate
The Long Room London W8 4HN
Saturday 16 May • 2 PM - 6 PM

To book SCAN the QR code at the end of the Video❤️

23/08/2025

Dear friends and family, I’m finally back — ready to share with you what has happened to this beautiful project over these past few years.
Just last May, I went to visit Shima, Leila, Rohina, and Abir. It was an amazing experience to witness how their lives have unfolded. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing their stories — and so much more — with you.”

Thank you so much for following along, and please feel free to share if you like. A heartfelt thanks to all the people who have been part of this adventure.

16/07/2023

Mattel has reinvented its doll in the language of empowerment, but it’s a hollow, plastic form of feminism

13/07/2022

I m so excited to go and meet Abir and her family after so many years. And while I was waiting for my delayed flight to stuttgart , Abir was preparing dinner for my arrival.

26/05/2022

Finally, I am thrilled to be on my way to meet shima who I met in Serbia in 2017. Since then she managed to reach Germany with her two kids.

22/09/2021

I am extremely proud of my APfaR inspiring new /old ways to conceive instant photography as a social tool. Thank you to Manuel Beinat and for this. Good luck on Saturday

L’ultimo appuntamento con WJ Udine si terrà questo sabato 25 settembre, alle ore 18.00, e ci farà fare un tuffo nel passato con le fotografie istantanee 📷
Tramite l'immediatezza della Polaroid, Witness Journal Udine tenta di sviscerare la percezione che le anime di "Vento d'Estate" hanno del Bel Paese.
Lo scatto istantaneo viene accompagnato dalla scelta di una sola parola con la quale i soggetti ritratti descriveranno l'Italia, con l’intento di restituire un ritratto sociale e collettivo del Parco Martiri delle Foibe.

Ad ospitare il progetto “One Wor(l)d for Italy” sarà di nuovo il Circolo Arci MissKappa.
Chiara Dazzan si pone coraggiosamente dietro l’obiettivo.

Si ringrazia A Polaroid for a Refugee, che ha ispirato il lavoro proposto.
Courtesy: Giovanna Del Sarto “Ragazzino nel campo di grano”
Foto © Giovanna Del Sarto

02/04/2020

Hi, during this time of quarantine, I finally have time to dedicate to my project. Not only to the project in general, but, to each p person I reconnected with. A Polaroid for refugee gives me the opportunity to share amazing and inspiring stories by people who left everything behind him to pursue a new life, a better future. I am aware that the following statement sounds very predictable and fatigue. However, above all during this very hard time that we all share, it’s important to remember that human beings are resilient.

Not long time ago, I asked Shima, in Afghan woman who is living with her two kids in a close camp in Hungary, to tell me what it means humanity to her and that is an extract of her answer. 😘