I decided to create a photo-book about immigrants, more specifically Muslim women. I wanted to use portrait photography to show the different types of women. One of the things foreigners hear the most is “go back to your own country” or “go back to where you came from”. But half of us are born in the UK and its all we know is Britain.
My mother came to Britain aged 3 and was brought up in an environment which had no Islamic education. She has a sense of belonging the UK and felt at home. She visited the country she was born in at the age of 13 and felt like a complete foreigner. One month after her 20th birthday she had an arranged marriage back in Bangladesh and had to adapt her whole lifestyle. Once my dad came over here he got to …show more content…
Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist, specifically in race and the media as well as the one of the main proponents of the reception theory inspired and promoted the work. This project includes modern artists of African, Asian and Caribbean ancestry. Such as Rasheed Araeen, Sonia Boyce, Eddie Chambers and many others.
After doing more research I found that Tate had an exhibition ‘soul of a nation: art in the age of black power’. The exhibition begins in 1963 at the peak of the civil rights movement and its ideas of integration. Artist’s acted in response to these times by provoking, challenging and confounding expectations. Their strength and drive makes for a captivating visual journey. Vibrant paintings, powerful murals, revolutionary clothing designs, photography and sculptures. The mixture of artworks reflects the many perspectives of the artists and collectives at work throughout these times.
I had a look at Ingrid Pollards. Pollards original photo essay places urban studies and geography alongside issues of making and uses of the archive. The geographies of ethnicity and race are studied through the short-lived makings of video, place, crossing time and re-memory and the
My mother came to Britain aged 3 and was brought up in an environment which had no Islamic education. She has a sense of belonging the UK and felt at home. She visited the country she was born in at the age of 13 and felt like a complete foreigner. One month after her 20th birthday she had an arranged marriage back in Bangladesh and had to adapt her whole lifestyle. Once my dad came over here he got to …show more content…
Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist, specifically in race and the media as well as the one of the main proponents of the reception theory inspired and promoted the work. This project includes modern artists of African, Asian and Caribbean ancestry. Such as Rasheed Araeen, Sonia Boyce, Eddie Chambers and many others.
After doing more research I found that Tate had an exhibition ‘soul of a nation: art in the age of black power’. The exhibition begins in 1963 at the peak of the civil rights movement and its ideas of integration. Artist’s acted in response to these times by provoking, challenging and confounding expectations. Their strength and drive makes for a captivating visual journey. Vibrant paintings, powerful murals, revolutionary clothing designs, photography and sculptures. The mixture of artworks reflects the many perspectives of the artists and collectives at work throughout these times.
I had a look at Ingrid Pollards. Pollards original photo essay places urban studies and geography alongside issues of making and uses of the archive. The geographies of ethnicity and race are studied through the short-lived makings of video, place, crossing time and re-memory and the