TRANSPARENCY

A PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

‘The cameras helped to exercise our minds, to think differently about various images in our daily lives and what they represent, symbolise and how they are interpreted by different people’
  
Transparency was a ten week photography and digital media project commissioned by GemArts and conducted by artist Meera George with a group of women from The Angelou Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne. 
 
The women who participated were from asylum seeker and refugee communities and had recently moved to Newcastle. Some had not used a camera before. The group learnt about different kinds of cameras, their uses and techniques from pinhole to digital media. 
 
Overcoming initial inhibitions and gaining confidence in their medium resulted in an exhibition of hopes and aspirations of what the future holds for them in this city and in their respective lives. 

The final work was exhibited at The Arts Works Gallery in July 06.