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Free outdoor display
How can we use photography to share stories of diasporic experiences?
Old Street Digital Canvas,
Old Street Roundabout
London, EC1V 1JB
This outdoor display will be free to view from 27 September - 8 October 2025
Inspired by the notion of A Thousand Small Stories, the title of Eileen Perrier's exhibition at Autograph, we invited the public to join the storytelling process by sending us their images and a short text caption considering the diasporic experience.
We received over 600 images and we're delighted to share a selection in a new online gallery.
We're now taking eight of the photographs submitted to Old Street, a few minutes walk from Autograph's gallery. They will be broadcast six metres high on the Old Street Digital Canvas, located at one of London's busiest roundabouts.
Ebrahim Piperdi, Bollyqueer, from the series Threads of Resistance, UK, 2024
Priyanka Pattni, from the series May You Not Get Evil Eye, UK, 2024
Elroy Salam, Blossoming Traditions, Ghana, 2024
Shizza Majeed, from the series Babaji’s Britain, UK, 2025
Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova, from the series Not From Somewhere Else, Estonia, 2025
Antonia Adomako, Girl and Black Barbie, UK, 2019
Amy Sarr, Awaken, My Love, USA, 2022
Alex Paganelli, Kiami, Portugal, 2024
Considering the diasporic experience - from issues of cultural or ritual tradition to notions of home and belonging.
Read more This image gallery is a result of our Call for Photographs: Your Small Stories – Diasporic Experiences.
This Call for Photographs was programmed to coincide with the exhibitions Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories and Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond. A Thousand Small Stories is supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust. Belonging and Beyond is supported by Freelands Foundation and delivered in partnership with The Photographers' Gallery and Thomas Tallis School.
Banner image: Alex Paganelli, Kiami [detail], Portugal, 2024. © and courtesy the artists.
Display preview, all images © and courtesy the artists: 1) Ebrahim Piperdi, Bollyqueer, from the series Threads of Resistance, UK, 2024. 2) Shizza Majeed, from the series Babaji’s Britain, UK, 2025. 3) Antonia Adomako, Girl and Black Barbie, UK, 2019. 4) Priyanka Pattni, from the series May You Not Get Evil Eye, UK, 2024. 5) Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova, from the series Not From Somewhere Else, Estonia, 2025. 6) Amy Sarr, Awaken, My Love, USA, 2022. 7) Elroy Salam, Blossoming Traditions, Ghana, 2024. 8) Alex Paganelli, Kiami, Portugal, 2024.
Online gallery: Amelle Oboubé Sokamessou, Salut Amical (Friendly Greeting), Togo, 2024. © and courtesy the artists.
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