Alexander Komenda
Alexander Komenda is a Polish-Canadian graduate student undertaking photography at Aalto University, in Espoo, Finland. With the support of the Film Photo Award film grant, Alexander will be visually exploring the nuances of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz conflict in the Ferghana valley conveyed via long-form documentary. The goal is to implement photography as a bridging strategy to facilitate the process of peace-building, via collaborative practice and the dialogue created between photographer, subject and the wider community. Alexander is a strong believer in the power of listening, paying attention, discussing, and the multi-beneficial rewards of dialectic leading to the formation of picture-driven processes of reconciliation; allowing for the subjects to burgeon their history via photographic practice.
