UPCOMING CONVERSATION

Passport Photos with Suniko Bazargarid

Please join BAXTER ST 2025 Resident Suniko Bazargarid for a passport photograph pop-up on Saturday October 18th from 3-5 PM in BAXTER ST’s gallery at 154 Ludlow Street in response to Bazargarid’s solo-exhibition, Where would we find you if we need to find you?. On view from September 10, 2025 – November 12, 2025, the exhibition weaves together personal and archival imagery to explore the psychological, spatial, and bureaucratic tensions that shape the experience of migration and memory. Participants of all ages are invited to come and have a free passport photo taken by the artist in the gallery and to reflect on what it means to be seen in this mediated way. Participants will receive a printed copy of their photograph to take home. Photographs are free and the activity is first come first served.

Drawing on her own transitory upbringing between Boston, Singapore, Bangkok, and Mongolia, Bazargarid explores the contrast between intimacy and distance, reflecting her many departures and returns. Analog and digital photography, interspersed with documents such as passports, ID photos, and stamps, form layered visual essays that expose the logistical challenges of crossing borders. These are set against the emotional and spiritual weight of displacement—the desire to leave, the pull to return, and the uncanny experience of encountering one’s homeland as a visitor. Through these layered journeys, the work also gestures toward the evolving, and at times, elusive nature of diasporic identity, shaped as much by migration, memory, and landscape as by inherited tradition.