{"id":766,"date":"2008-12-01T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2008-12-01T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:55:19","slug":"aliens-order-by-sam-hofman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/aliens-order-by-sam-hofman\/","title":{"rendered":"ALIENS ORDER BY SAM HOFMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reviewing portfolios at Rhubarb Rhubarb’s Cultivate<\/a> event in Nottingham last week I came across the work of graduate photographer Sam Hofman<\/a>. His project Aliens Order, deals with notions of his heritage and family roots, in much the same way as Adam Golfer’s<\/a> work, which I discussed in this blog<\/a> post.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a9 Sam Hofman, 2008<\/p>\n

I asked Sam to explain the ideas behind Aliens Order, and this is what he told me:<\/p>\n

“Poland has always been a place of curiosity to me, ever since I was young I was proud to be of Polish blood. My Grandfather Eryk, came to England when he was 20, but not out of choice, he came here by war and could not return to Poland because of communistic regime. Times have changed and people come and go as they please. There is a difference of intent with the new migration to England, a choice. The expansion of the EU meant thousands of Polish could brighten their future in England by working. Their relationship to England is different, to that of Eryk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. In this project, I have been exploring notions of my Polish heritage, and the Poles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 relationship to England. Poland is a strong Roman Catholic country and their mass migration to England has revived many churches.”<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a9 Sam Hofman, 2008<\/p>\n

“By visiting my unmet family in Poland I began to uncover my Grandfathers life back in Poland before he was conscripted not far from my age. By photographing his remaining siblings, the landscape, and the house where he grew up, which was very much untouched. I have used photography as a tool for a deeper understanding of self-reflection, but at the same time discovered the wider context of current Poland, both culturally and politically. As well as their movements in England, I have juxtaposed images taken in Poland as well as in England, to break down the borders of the two countries. I find it interesting the fact that they have left behind their country in search of something more. Other people in Poland I met wanted to stay in Poland and make it work.”<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a9 Sam Hofman, 2008<\/p>\n

You can find a larger selection of images from this project on Sam’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reviewing portfolios at Rhubarb Rhubarb’s Cultivate event in Nottingham last week I came across the work of graduate photographer Sam Hofman. His project Aliens Order, deals with notions of his heritage and family roots, in much the same way as Adam Golfer’s work, which I discussed in this blog post. \u00c2\u00a9 Sam Hofman, 2008 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}