Tamira Sawatzky is an architect and artist working in Toronto. She was raised in Winnipeg and holds a BA in English from the University of Winnipeg and an M.Arch from the University of Manitoba. She has been working for the award-winning firm MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects since 1998, designing community centres and libraries. Most recently, she has been collaborating with Elle Flanders on What Isn't There, a photo installation project about Palestinian villages that ceast to exist with the establishment of the State of Israel; Road Movie, an in-progress 12-screen installation on the Apartheid Roads of Palestine; and Road Shots, a series of still photographs with etched screens.