Common Grounds - Pitsea

A largescale outdoor photographic exhibition displayed in Gillingham and Pitsea for Estuary 2025. Common Grounds is a new collaboration between We Live Here and award-winning photographer Allie Crewe connecting local and refugee/asylum seeker communities in Medway and Essex through themes of landscape, nature and belonging. It explores 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. 

The photographic exhibition has been produced for Estuary 2025 in partnership with Estuary Festival and LV21. It creates a hub for public discussion and debate around themes raised in the project, in particular, who has access to natural landscapes and on what grounds, what barriers do people face in accessing the benefits of nature in their own lives, and how can engagement with nature foster a sense of community, connection and belonging.

Project Image: Photos by Allie Crewe.