Past Projects
Images and stories of urban history and social change, produced collaboratively with local youth, photographers and communities. The projects below are all unique and explore a range of themes using different technologies. Based in East London with feature series’ and locations in other cities and boroughs.
BLM London 2020 Image @israeljwilson
Black Lives Matter
Our 2020 youth initiative was documenting the Black Lives Matter protests, alongside young people and established visual artists. This is social change on the street, where young people are asking for institutional and structural reform. Both as subjects and crew this youthhood are demanding a system change for their generation. We will be continuing to photograph the development of this movement that has promised ’no justice, no peace'.
Polaroid Series
Future Hackney used polaroid cameras to produce instant photos. With a youth crew, we documented the near derelict indoor Harmer Market, based on Ridley Road. The instant processing and filmic look of the images reflects a time past.... and evokes feelings of nostalgia for a time when ‘Harmer’ was a vibrant space.
Contested Space
Working with ‘E5 Process’ Future Hackney set up a photographic studio and dark room in the derelict Harmer Market, on Ridley Road. Using 1940’s plate cameras and our own guerrilla styled printing space, we produced these close-up portraits. We worked with young people to document the local community an explored the concepts of social change and cultural displacement.
New York Stories
We took a detour to the Lower East Side, photographed the locals and listened to their lives and personal insights, finding similarities in the experiences of living in a city with rich cultural backgrounds. Cities undergoing rapid economic and demographic change.
Street Studios
Future Hackney set up professional photographic studios on Ridley Road photographing locals, residents and traders, whilst documenting their personal insights. Young people were trained in photography and assisted as crew to create these portraits and stories.