Media4us photography project 2012

In June 2012, Jon Santa Cruz and I delivered a one day photography workshop during the MEDIVA Conference as part of the Media4us project:"New perspectives on migrants in the media". This is an innovative project with the aim of "helping migrants get their stories and photos published in the mainstream media." I look forward to see what they made of it.

Their unique migrant perspectives on the news will be showcased in an insert in The Metro on 20^th November 2012 as part of the Media4us project.  

Sara Wickert, project co-ordinator, says: “Migrants in the UK are often misrepresented in the media. Media4us provides an opportunity for migrants to get their stories told and the public read articles that wouldn’t normally appear in the mainstream press.”

Here a few images from the photo workshop the brief being "People and places in Holloway Road". The aim was to capture the diversity of London's Holloway Road.  I would like to thank Sara Wickert and Eugenia Markova for getting me involved. Read on below for more info on the project and contacts for the Migrants Resource Centre (MRC). The project is supported by the EU Integration fund.

Image © Zabihullah Liwal

Image © Makgano Bopape

            

Image © Angelina Papamichael

Image © Rebecca Soliman

The Media4Us project has developed migrants’ skills in creating news articles and using photography to tell their stories while also providing them with transferable skills for employment. MRC’s service users were given training in journalism and photography and encouraged to take part in an EU-wide journalism and photography competition. 

The project, run by the Migrants Resource Centre (MRC) and funded by the EU, is a partnership of agencies across Europe, all of whom will have an insert produced by migrants in The Metro newspaper on 20^th November 2012.

To see all of the articles and photographs produced by migrants as part of the project, visit:  www.media4us.org.uk. Also check out the insert in The Metro on 20^th November 2012.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PRESS RELEASE AND THE MEDIA4US PROJECT

Contact:  Sara Wickert on 0207 834 2505 Ext 106 or saraw@migrants.org.uk

FOR ANY TECHNICAL ISSUES

Contact:  Jasmin Bukic on 0207 8342505 or jasmin@migrants.org.uk

Media4usmedia4us is a European Integration Fund-financed project with activities in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Czech Republic and Germany. In the UK media4us is led by the Migrants Resource Centre

The Migrants Resource Centre

Migrants Resource Centre is a national charity based in London and was founded in 1984.  MRC works with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to effect social justice and change, and to enable users to fully participate in society in the UK.  MRC carries out the following activities for the benefit of its users:

• Legal advice services
• Community based training and educational opportunities
• Online centre
• Crèche support
• Health access advice
• Information, advice and guidance on employment and training
• Media and policy work.

Registered Charity No: 291789  Registered Co. No. 01911662

Registered Office:

24 Churton Street

London

SW1V 2LP

Tel: 020 7834 2505

Fax: 020 7931 8187