Jillian Edelstein was forty when she encountered a photograph of her great aunt Minna, a relative whose existence she had not known about. The discovery prompted a search into her family history and led her to an unfamiliar branch of the family living in Ukraine. Here and There follows that personal journey while extending beyond it to photographs made throughout her career.

Human displacement connects the family investigation with the wider body of work. The publisher introduces the project through a question about having only twenty-four hours to leave home: what to take, whom to go with, how to leave, and whether to leave at all. Against that question, the rediscovered photograph becomes more than a genealogical clue. It opens a way of thinking about belonging, separation and the relationships that survive geographical distance.

Published by GOST Books in 2024, the 264-page hardback brings Edelstein’s family odyssey into conversation with her sustained photographic attention to displacement. The personal history supplies a point of entry into a subject that recurs across her work, linking the search for relatives with broader experiences of leaving home.