Common Grounds is a new collaboration between We Live Here and award-winning photographer Allie Crewe working connecting local and refugee/asylum seeker communities in Medway and Essex through themes of landscape, nature and belonging. It will explore women’s experiences of landscape and nature as places of solace and health, but also places of risk, danger and threat, both real and symbolic.
WE LIVE HERE
Founded in 2022, We Live Here develops, creates and presents public realm projects that build deeper connections between communities and the natural environments around them. Based in North Kent, We Live Here works with local, national and international artists to create ambitious projects that are rooted in place, but which connect with people from around the world. We Live Here asks how the arts can serve as a catalyst for conversations between local communities, nationally and internationally, about the environmental challenges that face our planet and all of us who live on it.
Allie Crewe is a photographer who seeks narratives of survival and resilience, exploring the stories of those who grow, who build a new life and embrace change. Through an intensive, research-based approach, she identifies tenderness, beauty and vulnerability in her sitters.
‘Photography is a poetic force to create stories, with a magical capacity to reveal a person's inner landscape and identity. There is a tender beauty in this vulnerability.’
www.allie-crewe.uk
Project Photos by Allie Crewe.
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