The Milaya Project: Embroidering Resilience in Uganda’s Largest Refugee Settlement

The Milaya Project: Embroidering Resilience in Uganda's Largest Refugee Settlement Milaya Project 20201211Nora Lorek 0005 2

When Swedish/German photojournalist Nora Lorek first set foot in Bidibidi, northern Uganda—one of  the world’s largest refugee settlement, home to over 250,000 South Sudanese—she did not expect to discover a textile tradition that would transform her work. It was 2017, and she had come to document Uganda’s refugee response, curious to understand how a functioning […]