Moving Pictures: Experiences of Migration
Photo Exhibition
Saturday 20th - Friday 26th March
Oxford Town Hall Gallery
St Aldate's, Oxford
Who counts as a ‘migrant’? Who are the people behind the statistics? Using real-life stories, COMPAS presents a thought-provoking and balanced view of migration, experienced by people as they move across countries and continents.
Moving Pictures is an exhibition held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science that is intended to allow the general public to access research usually only seen by academics and policymakers.
Winning entries from the annual COMPAS Photo Competitions will be displayed alongside photographs taken by academic research staff and artwork from invited guests.
The exhibition will illustrate different experiences of migration and challenge some of the widely publicised opinions about migration. The audience will be invited to take a closer look at the issues surrounding the subject and be asked to express their own experiences of migration and feeling about the exhibitions artworks.
This exhibition shows that debates surrounding issues of migration are not straightforward, but involve real people living real lives. While it is not possible for COMPAS to present every single person’s experience of migration, we hope to present a provocative view of many common experiences of migration and bring our research findings closer to the general public.
COMPAS Director, Professor Michael Keith
The variety of other contributors reflects the variety of ‘experiences of migration’. Notably, Shpresa Programme has contributed artwork made by Albanian speaking children from refugee, asylum and migrant backgrounds in London, in collaboration with Malcolm James, PhD Candidate at London School of Economics. A series of photos examining the localised migration caused by London’s 2012 Olympic Games, taken by Juliet Davis (London School of Economics), have also been included.
We hope you enjoy the exhibition.
Images of Moving Pictures: Experiences of Migration Exhibition