Sontag writes in ‘On Photography’ 'Photographs are, of course, artefacts. But their appeal is that they also seem, in a world littered with photographic relics, to have the status of found objects - unpremeditated slices of the world. Thus, they trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. They are clouds of fantasy and pellets of information.' Prelude- An analogue photo series by Dutch photographer Madeleine Kukic appealing to the themes of nostalgi

Preface Writing is based on lived experience. I was born in Kenya, studied in England and I’m currently working in Italy. These experiences which constitute my life so far have been made possible by immigration. It then naturally follows that my research on immigration will be biased. Knowing this I decided to re-approach it, to suspend my bias and instead look at the complex realities that constitute immigration today. To allow conflict instead of indulging in my idealised u