This multifaceted debut book is a personal family story about identity, kinship and belonging across borders. Joonam is a Persian word meaning “my beloved”, “my soul”, “my life”.
Rebecca Shririn Jafari (b. 1986), with a background in photojournalism and based in Norway, works with photography, text and collage, and explores – often through personal narratives – what it means to grow up between two cultures. Migration is a recurring theme in her work.
app. 90 color and 30 b/w images • Editing, sequencing and design: Gösta Flemming, Rebecca Shirin Jafari • Text: Rebecca Shirin Jafari • English/Norwegian + some Farsi • Translation to English: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight • Translation to Farsi: Benyamin Farnam • Final art: Johan Lindberg • Hard cover • 170 x 225 mm • 188 pages • Three headbands • Two pictures loosely attached with tape • 300 copies, hand numbered • Prepress and printing: Narayana Press • Binding: Buchbinderei Müller • ISBN 978-91-87939-92-1 • 2026
