The stories of “Lost & Found” are about people and places stuck in time, pending for change and abandoned. Through powerful photographic essays Effendi offers a rare glimpse into contemporary urban life in post-Soviet Azerbaijan, including the award winning work, Mahalla: Faces of Change. A Question and Answer period will be included in the program.

Rena Effendi is a Regional Winner of the 2004 FiftyCrows IFDP Central Asia and the Caucasus competition visiting the Bay Area from Baku, Azerbaijan. Effendi has photographically documented issues ranging from orphans with bone tuberculosis to post-Taliban Kabul, to condemned communities in Balakhani. A member of the Caucasus Agency of Photojournalists (PATKER) since 2002, her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications as well as promotionally for the World.