Current Work

Youth Remit

Future Hackney will document the Black Lives Matter movement with established photographers alongside training and exposure for young talent. Images and narratives of the work are all available @futurehackney. This is a long term initiative highlighting social change across London and forms part of our youth culture project.

Community Engagement 2020

Ridley Road Stories ~ Part 1 Future Hackney presents local public photography exhibitions documenting and celebrating the life of Ridley Road. In the first phase of this initiative Future Hackney installs 10 large format images on Friday 6th November 2020. Red Cross, 92 Dalston Ln, London E8 1NG

Meet @elvineohlala……. We met Elvine on Ridley Road last year, model, seamstress and video creator, we funded her to produce a costume using textiles and fabric from the road. She created this outfit and modelled it onsite, photographed by @whatchristphersaw as part of the FH collective. This is a part of our youth remit scheme on Ridley, assisting young people in promoting their work and talent in the borough.

We collaborated with @sistahspace_ to organise a photo project on Ridley Road as part of our community remit. Ngozi and Rosanna run @sistahspace in Hackney. A safe space and support network for African and Caribbean heritage women and girls who have suffered domestic or sexual abuse. Their cause has become more poignant with the increase of domestic abuse during the confinement’s of Covid-19, the prolific rise of black organisations under the BLM movement and their recent campaign to stay located centrally in the borough. “We both have a special relationship with this street handed down from our mothers. Ridley Road is a social space where you can be ‘your authentic self’ and ‘back home’ – with your food and culture. It was a place where women united and took time to ask after each other. They may already have known each other through family, friends or church but this road, over time, provided a platform for female care.”

Street Artist @zabou has painted a large format street image inspired by one of Future Hackneys photographs from the Black Lives Matters protests in Shoreditch, as part of the city’s support of this growing movement.