Mygrations
MyGrations was a year-long programme supported by SAMPAD and Creative Partnerships and linked a range of participating schools to involve both students and their families in an exploration of memories, origins and backgrounds.
I worked with Mayfield Special School in Handsworth, Birmingham. We started by using photography to explore self-portraiture, and then moved on to documenting home and family life using disposable cameras. After creating a celebratory slideshow that we set to music we decided that we wanted to make some kind of exhibition using the photographs we had made. We printed 40 photographs onto A3 fabric and then constructed light-shades out of the material with the aim of making the installation that can be seen in the images below.
The larger Mygrations project culminated in an event at the Drum in July 2006, and featured exhibitions of photographs, film, live performance, light installations and spoken word, that were created other workshops led by Basil Gabbidon, Jag Kumar, Ashok Mistry, Katrice Horseley, Dilwara Begum and Pritpal Rai, with additional input from Moving Hands Theatre.
