Photography
Our photographic projects combine documentary work with life histories capturing migration memories, places, stories and communities in transition. Over the lifetime of FOMACS, and working with a team of collaborating photographers, we aim to produce a substantive archive reflecting historic and contemporary images of migration into Ireland and beyond: exploring issues related to ‘family’, ‘youth cultures’, ‘journeys’, ‘neighbourhoods’, and ‘cultural identity’.
Each photographic project is tied to an exhibition plan, which takes the work to a variety of spaces and audiences outside the mainstream art gallery with further translation of the photographic work in the form of on-line resource packages and educational toolkits.
Please sample some of the photographic exhibits from the first year of FOMACS, Somali Elders and Mothers and Daughters, as well as work-in-progress, A Sikh Face In Ireland (working title).