Jagdish Patel

Studio A4

Jagdish Patel’s practice is research based, involving photography and visual arts on issues related to socially engaged art, anti-racism, and archives. His work is firmly located within the realms of portraiture and documentary, but through a process of collaborative art practice. Much of his practice involves working within working class communities, and he is keen to ensure that the process of making images is empowering for the people taking part in the projects.  Over the past few years he has undertaken projects with people from the Gypsy community, Asian football clubs, Muslim War Veterans, and Punjabi bar owners in the Black Country. 

He is currently researching the interconnections between socially engaged art, archives and anti-racism. Recent commissioned work includes Digital Diaspora: BAME stories of COVID-19, ReFramed (2020); Breaking Ground, Newarke Museum and Gallery (2020); Living Memory: Life Stories and Photography Collections, The Black Country edition (2020); When the Snow Melts: Muslim Soldiers and the aftermath of war, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2019).

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Picturing Food Justice
Picturing food justice, Jagdish Patel, Kelly O'Brien, Himmah
Picturing Food Justice
Picturing food justice, Jagdish Patel, Kelly O'Brien, Himmah

‘Picturing Food Justice’ is a participatory photography project let by artist Kelly O’Brien, that addresses issues around food justice, particularly in Nottingham’s NG7 postcode area. The project is supported through a collaboration between Off Centre Photography Festival, Himmah and Primary.

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Picturing food justice, Jagdish Patel, Kelly O'Brien, Himmah
Jagdish Patel | Asian Activism in Nottingham
Jagdish Patel, Asian Activism in Nottingham, Making Place
Jagdish Patel | Asian Activism in Nottingham
Jagdish Patel, Asian Activism in Nottingham, Making Place

An exhibition, meal, and walk led by artist Jagdish Patel, bringing together stories of people from the South Asian disapora who settled in Nottingham and challenged everyday racism through activism.

September 2017 - June 2018

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Jagdish Patel, Asian Activism in Nottingham, Making Place