Dionne Brand's What We All Long For narrates the stories of immigrant families to Toronto struggling to experience belonging and find what has been lost on the way. In this article (that has later been developed into my Master's Thesis) I address the ways in which the photographic medium attempts to achieve stability and certainty in a constantly changing reality.

This article, as well as the Master's Thesis that followed its writing has become a prominent step in my reliance on  photography and phototherapy as practices that help individuals to reclaim their lived experience and piece together the lost pieces.

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Suggested citation: Futerman, Liza. “Rethinking the Evidentiary Quality of Photography through Dionne Brand's What We All Long For.” Non Sequitur: The Currency of English Literature. Vol. 2 No. 1 (Summer 2012).