Description

Alexandra Rose Howland – Leave and Let Us Go
Publisher: GOST Books, 2021
Hardcover, 324 pages, English
Size: 24x18cm
New in seal

Leave and Let Us Go presents a portrait of Iraq — a country often misunderstood and misrepresented. In this new book, Alexandra Rose Howland combines her own photographs with found images and written testimonies, Her aim is to challenge and expand the ways that geopolitical events are communicated. The publication of Leave and Let Us Go coincided with an exhibition of the project at FOAM, Amsterdam from 17 September – 5 December 2021.

Please be aware that this book contains graphic imagery.

Howland first moved to Iraq as a photographer in 2017 to try to understand a country and people she had previously only encountered through the media. She had been 11 when the Twin Towers were attacked and the conversation in the news agenda had shifted to the War on Terror and Weapons of Mass Destruction. When she arrived in Iraq, she found a country far removed from her expectations and was intent on creating work that communicated this. Whilst photographing her first 88km panoramic image of Mosul Road, her project began to evolve from using her own images to represent the country to attempting to add another perspective—that of the Iraqi people.

Leave and Let Us Go, is the culmination of Howland’s photographic work and archive created across Iraq from 2017–2021.
Published November 2021