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📍 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 On emptiness “If the news photographer romanticized and aestheticized ruins, owners of single farmsteads, rural residents, and local government officials exhibited different affective orientations. For them, the ruins were not only nostalgic objects of the past and the past’s futures but also harbingers of the dystopian futures inherent in the present. They did not observe but rather actively lived the pasts and futures that these ruins both enabled and foreclosed”, in “Emptiness and its futures, Staying and leaving as tactics of life in Latvia”, written by Dace Dzenovska (2018) Much as in Dzenovska’s work, we have also taken photographs and videos of “emptiness”, ruins, barren lands, abandoned businesses and innumerable signs informing the houses were for sale. Yet “one must allow for the seemingly paradoxical possibility that leaving might be a form of staying”. ✨ Here’s a look behind the scenes from our campaign "𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞-𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡" 📸 Explore the visuals and insights on Instagram: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dm6FrSVp 👉 https://lnkd.in/dbUra5h6 🌐 Learn more about the themes behind the campaign on our website: https://lnkd.in/dWwTzFkk #RePlaceProject #VisualResearch #Migration #Mobility #UrbanStudies #CommunityStories