Tatyana Vulin

Bread and Blood

This book is comprised of many collages, almost exclusively of photographs from my family’s archive and photos I have taken from the age of 12 onwards. Through these images, you can see much of one side of my family’s life, as my father is the first and only one from that side of my family to have immigrated to Canada when he was in his twenties as a refugee. The book is divided into three volumes: Learning Curb, Complexities, and Carbon Copy. The first contains a collage dedicated individually to my father, my brother, and myself as children and our growing up. The second contains a variety of complex situations and concepts that my family has dealt with or continues to deal with, such as religion, war, and personal relationships with different family members. The last volume, Carbon Copy, is emotion-based, with each collage representing a shared feeling between family members or how I feel. The cover is covered in crosses as a reference to the relationship between my family and religion, the Balkans and religion, and the current strongly religious society in the Balkans.