In partnership with Fast Forward: Women in Photography, Autograph worked with seven women from refugee backgrounds who identify as LGBTQIA+ from the Rainbow Sisters, a network facilitated by the charity Women For Refugee Women.
The group were supported to develop creative story-telling and visual literacy skills to document their lives. Working in response to a poetry session led by Josephine Carter, participants considered how words and language can sit together with images, using the guided storytelling framework: I Was / I Am / I Will Be. The group then worked with artist Aida Silvestri to create polaroid images with a focus on gesture and pose.
Keep scrolling to see some of the works they produced, reflecting on notions of identity, cultural and sexuality, and ways in which we can utilise technical aspects of photography to support story-telling processes.
A collaborative mentoring programme, developing visual literacy skills and confidence, delivered in partnership with Fast Forward: Women in Photography and Women for Refugee Women
Find out morePutting Ourselves in the Picture engages with groups of refugee and migrant women and nonbinary people whose stories are the focus of this striking book
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