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當言語變得模糊時，我將用照片來聚焦。當影像依然不足以表達時、我也只能沈默以對了。
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
～Ansel Adams
Alexia Webster is a South African freelance photographer born in Johannesburg. She has traveled widely through the African continent as a documentary photographer. Alexia worked as a photojournalist for almost ten years and grew tired of so often taking photos but so rarely giving them. In an effort to change this, she conceived of the Street Studios. She visited refugee camps around the world where she offered families uprooted by violence the chance to reclaim their heritage, dignity, and sense of belonging through professional photographs. Using a portable printer on site she made a print for each sitter, thus restoring an important possession that most were forced to leave behind when they fled.
The vibrant patterns and colors in her subjects' clothing and the studio backdrop enliven otherwise stark and somber settings---both the camps where the sitters live in limbo and the long-vacant exhibition space where the photographs now reside---and they hint at the indomitable spirit that shines behind each pair of eyes.
Alexia Webster's portrait photographs were originally taken in 2014 at the Bulengo IDP (Internally Displaced People) camp, Democratic Republic of The Congo. This photograph was seen on display at an exhibit of Webster's work entitled "Home Land Security" at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.