Photography + film

Marshallese students working with documentary filmmaker Sara Penrhyn-Jones.

Students working with documentary filmmaker Sara Penrhyn-Jones.

Several photographers and filmmakers were involved in the Marshallese Arts Project: Sara Penrhyn Jones, Christine Germano, Steven Holloway, Chewy Lin, and Dan Lin. You’ll find their work all over this website, and this page highlights some of their contributions to MAP.

Artist interviews

Interview with Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Interview with Solomon Enos


'Through Our Eyes'

‘Through Our Eyes’

While in the Marshall Islands, MAP photographer Christine Germano undertook the ‘Through Our Eyes’ project: teaching Marshallese students to use cameras, and asking them to make photographs of things important to them.

The galleries below show a selection of photographs taken by students at Central Middle School, Honolulu, and Majuro Cooperative School, RMI.

 

Nature and Architecture

 

Signs and Art

 

People

'Anointed'

Anointed

In February 2017, members of the MAP team travelled to Runit Island, where Dan Lin filmed Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner performing her poem ‘Anointed’.

Starchasers

The MAP trip to Runit features in the Okeanos Foundation’s documentary film, The Starchasers, which will be out later this year.