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in partnership with UAL Insights
An annual collaboration between Autograph and UAL Insights that introduces young people to photography through an artist-led programme
A programme for London-based students in further education and sixth form colleges
To provide access to professional artists, curators and mentors, as well as Autograph's collection to support a new generation of makers in pursuing a creative career
Common Ground is an annual collaboration between Autograph and UAL Insights which invites a group of local sixth form and further education colleges students to explore themes of identity through photography, with sessions taking place at Autograph and UAL's London College of Communication.
Created and facilitated by Adrian Wood and D Wiafe, this iteration of the programme used the cyanotype process as a starting point to explore self-identity and expression through classic and contemporary forms of creative practice. Students explored the question: how do individuals use style, objects and their bodies to reflect their identity and the wider community?
Engaged with the programme
Recruited to support the delivery
Sharing the participants' work with the public
Sharing work made by the participants during the project
We estimate that the artworks produced were seen more than 700,000 times at Old Street and online
Took place at Autograph and London College of Communication
Featuring video portraits of the project participants
Still life by Anastasia
Project meeting: week 1
Project display at Old Street Roundabout
Cyanotype by Jessica
The cohort
See some of the new work produced by participants of the Common Ground project in this online gallery.
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D Wiafe is the Course Leader on BA (Hons) Commercial Photography course at London College of Communication (LCC). He is also a Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Photography at LCC.
D's work champions the power and contributions of youth-led thinking to collaborative projects. He has an extensive background in developing project partnerships with brands and arts organisation that enable creative talent to contribute innovate ideas to the development of branded content, community initiatives, social enterprises and more.
Adrian Wood is Senior Lecturer for BA (Hons) Photography at London College of Communication. Adrian is a London based Photographer and has exhibited domestically and internationally, including at Victoria & Albert Museum, (London) Aperture Gallery (NYC, USA,) Rencontres de Arles (France), and Musee de Elysee (Switzerland).
Community Outreach and Participatory projects are a core element of Adrian’s practice. Working with community and arts organisations, schools and government agencies, his work focuses on projects that encourage young people to use photography as a new way of seeing their own environment and themselves in relation to their communities, society and the wider world. The camera is used as a device for investigating the lines between participants' current realities and their future potential.
Images on the page: Courtesy of the artists and Autograph, London. © The artists.
Autograph is a place to see things differently. Since 1988, we have championed photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice, sharing how photographs reflect lived experiences and shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
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