Engagement

Future Hackney works collaboratively with a wide range of photographers, artists, arts and youth organisations and local residents. We co-author and forge relationships within communities, creating opportunities within each project. Through including locals in what we do, the photographs and media produced reflect the streets and neighbourhoods we live in.

Current focus

Engagement of communities on Ridley Road by Don Travis and Wayne Crichlow - @futurehackney www.futurehackney.com. We work closely and co-author documentary stories and community dialogue on Ridley Road. We also connect the road to Hackney residents and look at a range of wider issues in the political arena. Our focus for 2021 – 2022 is to create an exterior exhibition reflecting the events of the last year and relevant people from the road and borough. More information to come.

Current Commission

We are currently working with ‘Create London’ www.createlondon.org (@createlondon) as part of Hackney’s Windrush initiative coinciding with Veronica Ryan’s up and coming ‘Fruits of Ridley Road’ statue Hackney Central from June 2021. We aim to exhibit our Ridley Road Stories as a part of this initiative in 2021. More news and images to come as we develop this.

Collaborations

We work closely with young people and co-ordinators from @Rise.365 - A community project based on Kingsmead Estate that has distributed food and essentials to the Hackney community suffering extreme hardship due to social distancing, isolation and Covid-19.

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. “We both have a special relationship with this street handed down from our mothers.”

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.