Nina Chen is a Chinese photographer and artist. At the end of 2017, she immigrated from Shanghai to canton Aargau, Switzerland. As part of the immigrant community, she is also an experiencer of immigrant life and an observer of this process. Since the spring of 2022, she has invited five immigrant women around her to read poems in their mother tongue to show the hardships and joys of their new life. She uses real and delicate film language to show the audience the private states of mind of these women from different cultural backgrounds, hoping that these ordinary individuals can gain the audience's under- standing and respect.
This immigration journey, whether bitter or joyful, is an experience worth remembering. Where will these immigrant women go and will they be able to put down roots in this country? Will this be their last stop?
Hopefully, one day their hearts will be firmer and more peaceful, and this place, here, will no longer be a foreign country.
Nina Chen was born in 1980 in Hubei, China. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Hubei Normal University in 2003 and worked as an art teacher, graphic designer and art director. In 2009 she became a freelance photographer and artist and founded Nina Chen Photography Studio in Shanghai. In 2017 Nina moved to Switzerland where she now works as a resident photographer at the Children’s Hospital in Zurich.
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