Ladan Osman

Sep 26, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Kimiko Hahn |Ladan Osman

Audio of Oh chanting in tongues, which is part of her process when working with wire and stone: https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0.Kyong-Boon-Oh-for-Offing.mp3◆I had set out on my way to find a waterfall. I had walked and walked through the desert. And suddenly I realized that I forgot why I had searched for the waterfall. Then even I forgot the fact that I had searched for the waterfall. Only walking itself remained.

Jun 10, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Ladan Osman |Kimiko Hahn

For this installment of The Offing FEATURES, we invited multi-hyphenate artist and former contributing editor Ladan Osman to share the process behind her photography. Here are her reflections on meeting Ashley, Michael, and Candace — portrait subjects in Osman’s series Halos in Harlem — through a 35mm lens. (We encourage you to click on each image for an expanded view.)◆Years ago, I’d look through photobooks and think: great composition, beautiful work in the darkroom, wow what a scene.

Apr 2, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Ladan Osman

Somalian American poet Ladan Osman presents her book Exiles of Eden, which looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to the experiences and traumas of displaced people over multiple generations.

Jan 26, 2024 | sites.lsa.umich.edu | Ladan Osman

They said: the men are enemies, the women are enemies, the children are enemies, the unborn are enemies, the cats are enemies, the fishing boats are enemies, the bakery and its bread are enemies, the hospitals and holy houses are enemies, the fuel is an enemy, the water is an enemy.