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Exhibitions
2007
FOMACS, DIT Aungier Street
Publications
Mothers and Daughters: Portraits from Multi Ethnic Wales
A FOMACS catalogue featuring photographs and stories selected from the exhibition. It includes essays: 'The Art and Politics of Storytelling' by Áine O' Brien and 'Why Bother? On Photography, Women's Lives' and Respect for Difference' by Glenn Jordan (see PDF below for further details)
The Feminisation of Migration: Experiences and Opportunities in Ireland
This publication is available directly from the Immigrant Council of Ireland (See PDF below for details)
Biography - Glenn Jordan
Dr Glenn Jordan is Director of Butetown History & Arts Centre - Cardiff, Wales and Reader in Cultural Studies in the University of Glamorgan's Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries. An activist-intellectual, curator and photographer, Jordan's community-based projects have been exhibited in Ireland and throughout the UK. Glenn has published widely on visual culture, race, representation and immigrants and minorities in Wales.
Also by Glenn Jordan:
Somali Elders: Portraits From Wales >
Mothers and Daughters Catalogue
Mothers and Daughters: Portraits from Multi Ethnic Wales
Glenn Jordan's 'Mothers and Daughters', a series of portraits with accompanying texts, was exhibited at the Civic Offices, Dublin, and at FOMACS, in November 2007. This exhibition was opened in conjunction with the launch of the Immigrant Council of Ireland Report, 'Feminisation of Migration: Experiences and Opportunities in Ireland' by Jane Pillinger.
'The women in this exhibition are from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. For example, the selection of images portrays subjects whose parents or grandparents were Indian, Algerian, Maltese, French, English, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, West Indian, Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean - i.e., in addition to often being Welsh...I am interested in using photography and oral history to explore their journeys - their journeys across space (from one country to another) as well as across time (their experiences through their lives. I typically begin my interviews by asking: who are you? I record these interviews, so that their voices can be heard, together with their images' (Glenn Jordan, 2007).
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