Artist Talk | We Can Remember It For You
Join us with Oliver Farshi and Samir Abady as we dissect “We Can Remember It For You”
In conversation with Samir Abady, Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal, photographer Oliver Farshi will talk about what it means to find home in a new place. They will discuss immigrant family, belonging, and how home is pictured and remembered across photography and cinema.
In Oliver Farshi’s childhood home, rugs hung on the walls, carrying pattern, lineage, and the idea of a place he was not born in but belonged to. Living in the United States as an adult, he has watched those same symbols circulate as décor, export, and souvenir. Heritage flattened into commodity. By printing photographs onto cheap woven blankets, Farshi brings these histories into tension.
ON DISPLAY at the Peak Design New York Gallery
We Can Remember It For You, 2025
Woven blanket, dye-sublimation print on poly-cotton textile
ABOUT OLIVER FARSHI
Oliver Farshi is a British photographer based in New York. He is a winner of World Press Photo, American Photography, and CPOY. His photography has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, and New York Magazine, amongst others. Oliver's photographs reveal moments of vulnerability that are familiar yet rarely seen.
ABOUT SAMIR ABADY
Samir Abady is a documentary photographer and photo editor born and based in Queens, New York to Lebanese parents. His photo stories attempt to understand the worlds that people live in and explore his own. In the past he was a digital photo editor at Fast Company for News and Creativity verticals, where he occasionally had the opportunity to write about representation in popular media. He is currently a photo editor for The Wall Street Journal on the Breaking News desk.
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