Picturing Food Justice with Kelly O'Brien
We’re pleased to announce that Kelly O’Brien has been commissioned to lead on a ten week participatory photography programme ‘Picturing Food Justice’.
Through this collaborative project, Off Centre Photography Festival, Himmah and Primary are working to address issues around food justice, particularly in Nottingham’s NG7 postcode area. Food justice is a holistic way to view the broader structures which affect people’s access to the food system. It begins on the basis that healthy food as a human right and the need to address the structural barriers to that right. By thinking about food justice, we not only aim to improve access to healthy food for all, but we also examine the structural roots of these disparities; racial and economic justice are therefore important interconnected issues that we address.
Starting in May 2022, Kelly will lead a ten-week programme of free and inclusive photography workshops. In this course, participants will learn new skills in photography and explore ways to visually communicate their own ideas and experiences.
Kelly O'Brien is a photographer and artist with over 10 years of experience as a socially engaged facilitator and educator. Kelly collaborates with non-profit organisations, universities and art institutions nationally and internationally. Her work has been widely exhibited and published and has received numerous awards.
Collaboration and participation are key elements of Kelly's approach, conveying both the personal and the political. Aiming to visually communicate unseen narratives and histories, her work explores the relationship between photography, representation, power, and the lived experience.
This project is part of Nourishment: A cyclical programme and is supported by Real Creative Futures.
Real Creative Futures – Digital, part of the Big House programme is part of the Creative and Digital Industries D2N2 Consortium for Increased SME Competitiveness. Providing support for business growth to the creative and digital industries sector. It is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund