Placing Voices - Voicing Places: Project Blog

New Londoners: Reflections on Home

New Londoners: Reflections on Home is a collection of photographs and stories by young refugees who have been mentored by a selection of London's most established and up and coming photographers.

The book was launched by Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, at the Tate Modern on October 20th.

The New Londoners come from around the world, with diverse experiences and backgrounds. They are aged from 13 to 23, and come from ten different countries. The participants all share one common experience: they are young refugees separated from their families and homes, who are re-building their lives in London.

Photographer mentors on the project are: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Gayle Chong Kwan, Marysa Dowling, Suki Dhanda, Jillian Edelstein, Liane Harris, Crispin Hughes, Anna Kari, Anthony Lam, Jenny Matthews, Jo Metson Scott, Sarah Moon and Ilona Suschitsky, and Othello de Souza Hartley.

The book has additional contributions by writer Hari Kunzru, broadcaster George Alagiah and curator Charlotte Cotton.

Through the work we glimpse a side of London little seen and understood, from the point of view of some of the city’s newest arrivals. It reflects on their experiences of home: both the place they have left and the place where they have arrived.

For further information about the New Londoners project, click here.

Labels: art, visual art

posted by Ian Alden Russell @ Wednesday, October 29, 2008