So this is a post I wrote in 2015 which I never posted for some reason. We were doing a project on immigration in the run up to the general election. And now it’s 2018 and we are Conservativised and Brexiting and Trumped... sigh....
Looking through the website again, some of the things people say are really moving . Makes me sad that UK politics are so anti-immigrant. Please have a look at the stories: http://www.faceit2015.com/
ALL PHOTOS BY BEN MCMILLAN
Recently I’ve been working on a project called FACE IT 2015 with photographer Ben McMillan
the participants are photographed and put up on the website (www.faceit2015.com) with their thoughts on immigration in the UK/ identity or just how they came to be in the uk and what they are up to. go and read some!
We’ve been running around on buses trains/underground and the occasional uber with a black backdrop and one light, setting up shoots in the street, backstage at the southbank centre, in some conservative house in uxbridge, in a HUGE 漂亮的 sikh temple in gravesend, at thai new year, cambridge university, at a gurkha welfare centre in aldershot...
been so good going to talk to all these different people - so open and sharing their thoughts on quite personal things like migration, immigration, identity, family history .
it brings out an interesting side to people, because they know its an independent not for profit project that gives equal treatment to people with really different views, (boris johnson/ a North Korean refugee/ czech builder/ the first nepalese policewoman in england/ some really eloquent students/ a UKIP candidate)
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