I Live Here

“A touching, gorgeously produced, and thoughtfully edited compilation of stories from the world's trouble spots… Combines reportage, photography, fiction, and comics to create a group portrait of the lives of refugees and displaced people worldwide.”
— NEW YORK MAGAZINE

A groundbreaking 'paper documentary' THAT TELLS THE STORIES OF displaced people around the globe.

I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative—told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas—in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked, it is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.

The voices we encounter are those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists. The stories unfold in an avalanche: An orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A teenage girl falls in love in a city of disappeared women. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was taught to kill.

Mia Kirshner’s journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others.