Fast Company – The Migration Museum Wants To Show That The Refugee Crisis Is More Than Just Statistics (22/06/2016)
See the enormous French migrant camp known as the Jungle through the eyes of the people who live there.
See the enormous French migrant camp known as the Jungle through the eyes of the people who live there.
‘A new exhibition on the quiet resilience of the people stuck in that Anglo-French limbo – Call Me By My Name, which recently opened at the Londonewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch, east London – highlights again the way in which inflammatory abstractions (“Immigration chaos!”; “Take back control!”) can trounce ordinary human responses.’
‘Images of people living in make-shift shelters, mud and squalor, have exposed the world to the living conditions in Calais’s refugee camp, known as “the Jungle”. But despite intense media coverage over the past year, it can be hard for outsiders to gain a true perspective on life in the camp, which has become a town in its own right.
For this reason, architect Shahed Saleem embarked on a project to map the Jungle… The finished work is being shown in London, as part of a wider exhibition by the Migration Museum Project on the refugee crisis in Europe running through June 22.’
Metro featured Call Me By My Name in its To Do List column.