Donna Bassin is a photo-based artist, filmmaker, psychologist, professor, and author whose work confronts the fractures of contemporary life. Born in Brooklyn and now rooted in New Jersey, she creates long-term projects that listen closely to trauma and resilience—bearing witness to the aftershocks of war, racism, and social injustice, and more recently, to the wounds we inflict on our environment. Through her lens, what is broken is named, and what endures is given space to be seen.

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Dollhouse 2: “Gimme Shelter”

A broken dollhouse — its paint faded and walls crudely mended — stands as a fragile relic of home. Once a child’s toy, now a meditation on belonging, loss, displacement, and the unjust promise of safety. I invite you to step inside — to step inside the question: Where do we belong when home no longer shelters us?