Graduation Dresses
series of photographs

'Graduation Dresses' is an ongoing project consisting of a series of photographs I take of young women, in Banja Luka (Bosnia & Herzegovina), who have completed recently their high school education. All of them have had a dress made by my mother (for their graduation ball), and nearly all the dresses are based on an image of a celebrity or a model wearing a famous designer dress. I photographed them in their homes, their personal spaces, wearing their graduation dresses.

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Clothes for Death
series of photographs and short films

'Clothes for Death' (Odjeca za Smrt) is an ongoing research based project documenting women in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina who prepare clothes in which they wish to be buried. Deeply moved upon hearing about this relatively unknown and quite private custom Kern set out to research it further, taking the ritual as a window into exploring questions related to social and cultural constructions of death and dying. As well as reflecting on wider contexts the resulting works intimately engages with the lives of women whose identities have been shaped by turbulent historical, political and cultural currents.

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