-Amelia Bookstein Kyazze

A.B. Kyazze has been a photographer and humanitarian worker since 1996. The main theme of her photographs has always been humanity and landscapes. As a student in Nepal during an instable political period, she became fascinated by the communicative power of graffiti and by the country’s strong landscapes.

The relationship between dramatic reality and human relations became the central theme of her work (see the site entitled Humanity in the Landscape, abkyazze.co.uk). As a photographer, writer and political analyst, she is constantly inspired by language, gestures and landscapes. Her travels to over 40 countries, many suffering disaster or conflict, are always informed by the paradoxes of the human condition and particularly by the contrast between the barbarism of war and the tenderness between mother and child.

Many of her strongest photographs are portraits of conversations – the direct relationship between subject and photographer. She has always brought her political analysis to these personal conversations, but being respectful of human dignity. Despite the fact that many of her most surprising photographs were taken during times of war or during natural disasters, the images rarely convey sufferance.

Her works depict the severity of war, but at the same time, the contribution and resilience of the community in reconstructing a bridge, a market where people shuck colored beans and where refugee children dance. In recent years she has begun exploring urban landscapes and models of abstract nature. The artist lives in London with her husband and son.