Join us for a virtual 'fireside' chat to discuss visual storytelling, co-authorship and sharing our communities’ stories. We'll discuss questions including: Why is it important to place emphasis on engagement, transparency and co-authorship when documenting a community’s stories? What does it mean to exhibit the work as street art? Why is it important to document and archive community and cultural histories? What does co-authorship look like?

We will hear from Don Travis, Wayne Crichlow and Kennyatta Gerald from Future Hackney and Autograph’s director Dr Mark Sealy. Future Hackney documents social change in East London, working at the intersection of photography and social engagement, developing trusting relationships with participants that encourage and enable them to express wider societal experiences around issues such as mental health, exclusion, confinement and being non-binary as it relates to the African and Caribbean experience. The work produced is co-authored with the participants and delivered as large format street exhibitions.

Everyone is welcome to join us, and there will be an opportunity to join in and ask questions at the end in a Q&A.