Since 2022, I’ve filmed the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, where thousands of migrants cross one of the last primeval forests in Europe to seek asylum in the E.U.



Beginning in 2021, Belarus, a Russia-propped dictatorship, artificially created new migration paths—which some describe as state-operated human trafficking—as part of its hybrid attack against the E.U. Since then, thousands of migrants— mostly from Africa and the Middle East —have crossed Białowieża, one of the last primeval forests in Europe, to seek asylum in the E.U.

Since 2022, I have, on and off, documented the efforts of local women who volunteer to provide aid to migrants. In 2025, I was able to interview seven migrants from Kurdistan, Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, and Congo. I’m currently working on a short video essay that pairs my conversations with migrants about their experience of crossing and four years of recordings of the local community and the mark the crisis leaves on them.




This project is supported by the Queens Arts Fund (2023), the Puffin Foundation (2023), CUNY Adjunct Incubator (2025) and NYSCA (2026).