100 Images of Migration gallery

On board P & O Strathaird Australia, England, 1959

Colour photograph showing woman and two young boys sitting on a bench on the deck of a P&O ship, a lifeboat in view behind them. The woman wears a long tartan skirt, navy top and patterned scarf and looks directly into the camera. The two boys are dressed in shorts, blazers and long grey socks. The boy to her right is looking up from his book and the boy to her left is peeking up too, either shyly or squinting in the sunlight.

My family’s uprooting and exile to Papua New Guinea paradoxically catches me in reverse. Ostensibly a ‘native’ of PNG having been born there, my uprooting was at age 8, when along with my brother Ed, we were ‘repatriated’ to a life we had never known, so my formative years were broken up into one of… Read more

Defiance

In 1972, Leicester City Council took out an advert in the Uganda Argus advising the Asian community not to come to Leicester. This advert had the opposite effect. Read more

Commemoration service, Bradford City Hall, March 2007

Members of Bradford’s Caribbean community at the commemoration service at Bradford City Hall which marked the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. I chose this picture as this moving event drew together all the communities in Bradford to remember a significant chapter in the history of the Britain and its relationship… Read more