No Stranger Place

Portraits of refugees and their hosts in Austria, Germany, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Read more

No Stranger Place is about relationships and what becomes possible when people form them. It challenges us to think about the labels we use to describe people and why it feels radical when people respond to a crisis from a place of trust rather than fear.

While the refugees get a safe home, new friends and family, as well as a head start learning the language, the hosts, too, have their preconceptions challenged and learn about new cultures and ideas, as well as their own. As Edgar Rai says: "I can't imagine how else I could've taught my children the things they have learned through living with Bilal and Amr."

This ongoing project, developed over three years in partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, continues to reach broad and diverse audiences through publication in print and online, live interviews on broadcast television and radio, as well as social media and exhibitions in public venues across the world.

"I’m interested in developing partnerships with people and organisations who share my emotional response to the world,” says Wade about working with UNHCR. “It’s important to me to seek vehicles with which we can connect the ideas that are embedded into the work to audiences across the political spectrum."

To read the full stories visit www.nostrangerplace.org.

 
 
 

Exhibitions

No Stranger Place has been exhibited in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg and Montreal. To engage diverse public audiences Aubrey and the project team designed and installed bespoke exhibitions in major public venues across Europe, including Berlin Central Station, St Martin in the Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square, and Ground Control at Gare du Lyon in Paris.

 
 

Publicity

No Stranger Place has been featured in the Guardian, Zeit Online, AJ+, CNN international, NowThis, the British Journal of Photography, and many others. Interviews with Aubrey and selected participants have also been broadcast on CNN, Sky News and ORF (Austrian TV and radio). The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, launched their ‘compassion series’ with No Stranger Place, which was seen in 80 countries in at least eight languages. The project has its own website: www.nostrangerplace.org

 
 

Take part

Have you been affected by the war in Ukraine or been forced to flee your home for other reasons? Are you hosting refugees in your home? We want to hear from you!

We are travelling throughout Germany, Poland and Moldova this summer, working to make the project as inclusive as possible by reflecting diverse experiences, nationalities and backgrounds.

To take part or find out more, please visit the project website, send us a brief email or text message, or call us on +49 176 8817 9192. More information in German or Ukrainian is available here.

 
 

Team

Throughout this multi-year project Aubrey has worked with a team of talented people. Special thanks go to Stjepan Sedlar for the assistance throughout, to everyone at UNHCR, and to Nadine Alfa and Clementine Baron for the insightful interviews that accompany the portraits. They can be found on www.nostrangerplace.org.

There you will also find links to local organisations supporting refugees and locals to live together in all five countries, as well as three short films produced by Tiger Nest Films.