Wendy Ewald - Towards a Promised Land

1st edition published by Steidl, 2006

Format: Softcover, 200x260mm

Pages: 184

Condition: Very good

Towards a Promised Land documents Wendy Ewald's work with twenty-two children new to the British seaside town of Margate. Some arrived fleeing countries afflicted by war, poverty or political strife; others by following their families from one town to the next. Over 18 months, Ewald photographed her subject-artists and interviewed them about their past and present lives, while teaching them how to make their own photographs.

In July 2005  Wendy Ewald’s photographic portraits of the children appeared along Margate’s Sea Wall as huge, iconic banners. On 20 May 2006, the Sea Wall images were joined by the second and final phase of Towards a Promised Land with banner photographs hung around the centre of Margate; while the children's own projects formed an exhibition at a local gallery. Working with Wendy Ewald, the children have learned, through photography, to explore and understand their worlds and express different experiences of relocation and the search for a better life.