Alexandra Rose Howland

13/05/2024

Aleksandre had been working at Hotel Georgia, two days a week for many years as the manager. Built in the 50’s, this hotel was the most prestigious and luxurious of its kind. Now just two floors remain open, and just a handful of guests visit each year.

12/05/2024

Buried in the heart of Georgia sits a Soviet era Ritz Carlton. Equal parts Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shining, Hotel Georgia is a nearly abandoned hotel visited by just a handful of guests per year and maintained by 3 employees, all of whom hold IDP (Internally Displaced Person) status from the Abkhazia Conflict in 1992.

29/09/2023

Wafa and one of her brothers inside their home in Harsham IDP camp in Erbil, Iraq. Wafa, 15, suffers from a severe growth hormone deficiency and has lost much of her eye sight. The oldest of 10 siblings, Wafa and her family fled Sinjar in 2014 as ISIS took control.

21/08/2023

It’s been many years since I’ve published any of my paintings so to open this article by for with a new painting and an image from my work in South Africa is refreshing! The conversation talks about the current challenges facing artists as we attempt to present our changing climate and it’s impacts in a way that makes any sense. Pick up the latest issue from FOAM Magazine on Climate 🖤

03/07/2023

I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with for her podcast The Messy Truth this month. Gem is an incredible person to work with and I’m so thrilled to have this conversation out!

06/04/2023

“Leave and Let Us Go” is the culmination of Alexandra Rose Howland's photographic work across Iraq over the last five years. Her work seeks to expand our understanding of geopolitical events by offering firsthand accounts and personal perspectives. In this installation shot, we see a small selection of the roughly 350,000 images and videos Alexandra Rose Howland collected from people across Iraq, rearranged and narrated through the artist's interaction to present a modern and diversified view on daily life in a war-torn country.

Alexandra Rose Howland’s series is part of our exhibition “Foam Talent 2022” that is on view at The Cube in Eschborn until May 14. Check our website for more information.

Alexandra Rose Howland, from the series “Leave and Let Us Go” © Alexandra Rose Howland. Installation view at The Cube, © Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Photo: Robert Schittko

Robert Schittko

10/02/2022

When I first went to Iraq back in 2017, I never imagined that this would be the body of work I would come away with, nor that it would change me so drastically. Leave and Let Us Go has been a project 5 years in the making and it has redefined who I am as an artist and photographer.

I am deeply grateful to each person who trusted me with their images and for the continued collaboration throughout the last few years. To .aljaffal, who I have leaned on heavily to bring this body of work to life, and to , who made the impossible tasks remarkably simple, Im beyond grateful to you both.

, you took on this project and painstakingly laboured over each and every spread. Two years of skype calls and endless back and forth-I dare say we succedded.

Leave and Let Us Go can be purchased through GOST as well as on my website.

11/11/2021

Leave and Let Us Go
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At 14, we sat in a classroom and imagined the end of the wars.
Planning our futures, we sat and we laughed. We dreamt of what we could do and who we could be.
We tumbled out of school.
She collapsed, hit by a silent bullet.
She lay on the ground.
She bled all her blood.
All her thoughts soaked into the earth around her.
Our futures slipped out of her eyes, lost in the heat beating down on us.
I knew then it would never be so simple in my homeland.
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Breathing became something to hope for. The conflict doubled.
My neighbours, my friends, my families were killed.
My uncle abducted.
The head of my cousin’s husband delivered to our doorstep.
The charred faces of our brothers.
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They threatened to kill my father if I did not cover my head, so I stole my mother’s veil and I watched.
I watched them kill the innocent people of my home. From a hole in the wall, I watched them while I studied.
I watched them as they took one after the other.
I watched one of them plant a small seed in front of my house and I dreamt they watered it with the blood of the innocent.
The deep red flowing into the roots surrounding my home.
The seeds of evil soaking all around us.
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Fear has haunted me like a shadow from the first moments of war.
It clings to me like a lost child, nameless and with no identity, filling my heart. Sometimes I pity it and give it everything I have.
I never part with it.
It took the form of a wayward missile, as if wanting to play hide and seek.
Once exploding in our street and once in a nearby house.
It matured when we fled and it confronted me sternly when my uncle was martyred. I carried a charred piece of it the size of my palm to place in his grave.
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Today my fear has grown into branches that feed from my soul.
I fear breaking news and protestors being killed.
I fear mothers' faces as they rush to embrace the remains of their sons.
I fear our conversations of migration and the thought of saying goodbye.
I fear for my family and for the ones I love in such a monotonous, boring and automatic way,
I fear.
-Excerpt from I Dream of My Homeland by

18/09/2021

LEAVE AND LET US GO

17/09/2021

LEAVE AND LET US GO

09/09/2021

Opening September 17th at FOAM!!

Foam 3h presents the exhibition Leave and Let Us Go, an intimate portrait of Iraq, by Alexandra Rose Howland.