Nadia Huggins was born in 1984 in

Port of Spain Port of Spain ( ; Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian English: ''Port ah Spain'' ) is the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago. With a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), an urban population of 81,142 and a transient dail ...

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. She now resides in

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the south ...

. Nadia Huggins is a self-taught photographer and

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who has worked extensively throughout the

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. She was awarded the Festival Caribbeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte Jury Prize in

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in 2015.

Early life and interests

Growing up in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Nadia Huggins was raised just a short walk from a beach. During her adolescent years, she enjoyed climbing and jumping off rocks with "the boys" she became friends with. She soon developed an interest in photography and bought her first camera. Huggins, became interested in photographing people and their experiences around the Caribbean. Her passion lies in capturing images in the sea, which allows her to see the beauty of not only by what can be seen above the surface, but also what you cannot see below. Nadia has learned to overcome her fear of the water by photographing herself inside in the water. She compares objects such as

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and underwater flora to her own body's texture and parts.

Career and work

Nadia Huggins co-founded ''

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'' in 2011. ''ARC'''s mission is to expand creative culture, within the visual arts industry across the wider Caribbean and its diasporas. Huggins, has most recently worked on ''Fighting the Currents'' project, which focuses on bodies underwater. Nadia, uses her own body, the ocean, and marine organisms to compare the similarities within. Huggins states, "Most people's experience with the sea occurs at eye level with the horizon and they are oblivious to what is happening below the surface. I am interested in the notion that 'just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there."

Exhibitions

*2011 – About Change, The World Bank Group

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, US *2014 – 2014 Frames: Projecting International Photography,

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, UK *2014 – (e)merge Art Fair: ARC + NLS collaboration,

*2015 – Fighting the currents single piece installation, Alice Yard AY24/7,

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*2016 – Featured artist for Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival, Miami, US(2016) Embodied Islands: A Caribbean photographic exhibition,

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, UK *2016 – Small Axe Caribbean Queer Visualities, Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Golden Thread Gallery,

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, UK *2016 – Vision Archipéliques, Fondation Clément,

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*2017 – Fighting the Currents, Centro de la Imagen,

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*2017 – Jamaica Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Jamaica,

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*2017 – Small Axe: Caribbean Queer Visualities,

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, Glasgow,

, UK *2018 – Arrivants: Art and Migration in the Anglophone Caribbean World, Barbados Museum,

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*2018 – Bodies of water, material detritus, and reclamation of used things and objects, Tempsspace,

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, Canada *2018 – Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling,

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, US *2018 – Caribbean Women Photographers and the Body Within

Landscapes and Seascapes, Addis Foto Fest 2018,

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, Ethiopia * 2019 – Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,

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, Maine, US *2019 – A Love Ethic, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada

Awards

*2015 – Festival Caribeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte – 2015 Jury Prize. Photographer. Awarded by La Région Guadeloupe.

Residencies

*2017 – Once upon a water,

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References

External links

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