Sent North (2023) is a collaboration between myself as photographer and community artist and a group of young people now known as Sent North Collective.
“The project is about photography and about Afghanistan, and ourselves, and the situation there and what it is like here. And we met together and talked and chatted”
Sarwan, Sent North Collective
The project offered a supportive, creative space, relieving the stresses of hotel life, and supported the group to express something of their experience of forced migration. The emphasis was firmly on the project process and the experience of ‘doing it’, as opposed to any concrete output or artistic vision. As such, the group attended a series of collaborative photography sessions, experimenting with self portraiture, collage, and the relationship between text and image, before co-curating their work and pulling it together into a self published book, Sent North.
