Photography at Millman Street

These photographs were taken by elders at the Millman Street Resource Centre, Holborn as part of a six month participatory photography project. Read more

: Self-portrait. Ibetsam Altahir

: This is my dancing group at Age Concern. I know they are not perfect dancers, but I like to watch them. Because of my legs, I can’t dance myself. © Marie Lipman

: Nostalgia for Baghdad’s sun that is more beautiful than any other. © Ibtesam Altahir

: I took this photo to ask someone what kind of salad leaves these are. © George Robertson

: Marie Lipman. I enjoy photographing others at the centre and capturing the expressions on their faces. The centre is for everyone – I like the togetherness. © Marie Lipman

: Self-portrait. I’ve been making cameras for years and years. I also help mend other people’s broken cameras. I specialise in making stereo cameras. I’ve made over one hundred of them. © George Roberston

: This is my upstairs neighbour’s flat. © George Roberston

: Self-portrait. © Oswald Joseph

: I hear voices now silent, I smell a Xmas tree, I see through walls, I touch my past and feel connected. © Jean Davis

: In the photo is my mother aged 14, with my grandparents, uncle and aunt in Vienna in 1914. © Marianne Wasser.

: Senate House, viewed from near Brunswick Square. This was where George Orwell worked when he wrote 1984. It was his model for Minitrue. © Helen Barnhill

: Exhibition of elders’ work in Queens Square as part of the Bloomsbury Festival 2012.

: Exhibition of elders’ work in Queens Square as part of the Bloomsbury Festival 2012.

: Exhibition of elders’ work in Queens Square as part of the Bloomsbury Festival 2012.

“We’ve been living living through the camera, seeing our history through the photographs we are taking. We are reviving memories and seeing things from new angles and points of view”.

The project, with members Millman Street Resource Centre in Holborn, used photography to engage elders at creatively in the present, helping them to share stories about their lives, and to be active in creating visual records and memories. The photographs became visual talking points that brought participants together, creating new friendships and conversations, increasing motivation and mobility.

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