We at The Polis Project are conducting our first ‘Decolonise Photography’ workshop in New York, from 19th to 23rd November, 2019. You can learn more about them by going to the link shown above, or here. The workshops are open to all. And they are completely free. Over the course of five intensive days of […]
Asim Rafiqui is a Ph.D. research candidate at the University of Delft, Department of Architecture. He is a member of the Topological Atlas project researching methodologies for producing visual counter-geographies at border sites. Asim’s research looks at the impact of development projects on Indigenous land and oceanic relations in Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Asim completed a MA in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, the University of London, in 2018. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Jackson, Mississippi, for his thesis. His research looked at the challenges facing community activists building a network of cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises in the inner city neighborhoods.
Previously Asim worked as an independent photojournalist for US and European publications. He was of an Open Society Fellowship in 2012 and a Fulbright Fellow in 2011.