Letters to Azan

Letters to AzanLetters to Azan is a monograph comprised of letters, photographs, and ephemeraa quiet archive of motherhood, displacement, and love that perseveres across distance. Shaped by grief and longing, the book unfolds as a deeply personal narrative of survival and resistance. The work traces a mothers journey through geographical, emotional, and legal boundaries, where time stretches and contracts depending on ones perspective. Intervals of togetherness

Letters to Azan is a monograph comprised of letters, photographs, and ephemera—a quiet archive of motherhood, displacement, and love that perseveres across distance. Shaped by grief and longing, the book unfolds as a deeply personal narrative of survival and resistance.

The work traces a mother’s journey through geographical, emotional, and legal boundaries, where time stretches and contracts depending on one’s perspective. Intervals of togetherness appear suspended, and separation holds yet another weight—not only between mother and child, but crossing generations. Through image and text, the book reflects on how love adapts and endures, even when bodies cannot.

While rooted in an intimate bond between a mother and her son, Letters to Azan speaks broadly to anyone who has experienced loss, migration and separation, all the while grasping on the fragile hope of return.

Lali Khalid is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, and text. Her practice explores the interstices between diaspora, identity and migration. Khalid holds an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute, has exhibited internationally, and is a Visiting Artist in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Author: Lali Khalid
Design: Caleb Cain Marcus, Luminosity Lab

ISBN: 978-1-959684-14-5
Dimensions: 6.7 x 9.5 inches
Number of pages: 144 pages
Binding: Hardcover Swiss