A painting of me

Waiting for my Children. ⇒

   26 May 2009, mid-afternoon

A collection of portraits. "There are parents in our community who are forced to wait for many years to be joined by their children, after they first arrived in Canada as immigrants or refugees."

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  1. I was one of those children back in the day.

    by radmila on May 26 2009, 4:12 pm   #

  2. When I saw Chien-Chi Chang give a talk in Toronto recently, he showed photos from a project he is working on now, which is about Chinese immigrants in New York. Most of the people he was photographing had been separated from their family for over a decade. It’s crazy.

    by ramanan on May 26 2009, 4:40 pm   #

  3. I was separated from my parents for almost 8 years.

    There are more of us than people think.

    My husband and his sister also stayed “back home” for almost a decade.

    There is a real bond that is broken with that kind of separation.
    My bond was with my grandparents. On a certain level, my mother and I never recovered from that separation.

    by radmila on May 26 2009, 8:50 pm   #

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