Photography Down The Line with Flannery O'kafka (recorded 14 April 2020)
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Flannery O'kafka. Based in Glasgow, O\\u2019kafka is a mostly lens-based artist engaging with themes of motherhood, religion, disability, comedy, resemblance, and suffering, often working within the medium of domestic snapshot photography. Having begun as a small-town scandal in the Summer of 1976, Flannery O'kafka was adopted and raised on the banks of the Ohio river. In January 2018, she traveled back to the American Midwest to trace the story of her conception--as Artist-in-residence at the Dubois County Museum. This ongoing project is titled Thin Blood / Thick Water. A selection was exhibited at Stills Centre for Photography in Edinburgh in July 2018. O'kafka graduated in 2018 from Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art and since then has exhibited in the UK and internationally as well as attending artist residencies at Project Ability and Hospitalfield House. Three of her images have been acquired by Edinburgh\\u2019s City Art Centre as a part of their Scottish Photography Collection.
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