Kaleidoscope: Immigration and Modern Britain
Interesting exhibition at Somerset House of photographers who draw on their experience of being immigrants and descendants of immigrants to Britain. I loved the description on the handout that these works “present a view of British identity, not as a single monocultural lineage, but as an accumulation of multiple perspectives and memories, ethnicities and racial origins.” It was nice to see Chris Steele-Perkins “The New Londoners” series again. They were shown earlier this year at the British Library. He is trying to photograph a family living in London from every country in the world in their living rooms. I loved Mahtab Hussain’s portraits of the community around a mosque in Tipton, West Midlands, that was nail bombed. My favourite piece, shown here, was by Kurt Tong a multi-layered work that traces her family from China to Hong Kong and then the UK. She combined new photographs with found images and pages from family albums. I loved the sense of the present being sup...