We Are All Brothers Here: Stories from the Bangladeshi Community by Paul Alexander Knox.Stay where There Are Songs by Ciara LeemingDocumenting the everyday life of a Czech Roma family from Middlesbrough.Commissioned by Side Gallery as part of the Homelands Project publicly funded by Grants for the Arts*THE HOMELANDS PROJECT: The North East has a number of long-standing ethnic minority communities – the South Shields Yemeni community dates from the end of C19th – but it was the UK governments asylum seeker dispersal policy in 2001 that began a radical cultural transformation in the region. With support from Baring Foundation and Arts Council England, Side Gallery has launched Homelands to generate new documentary production exploring the stories involved in this cultural shift. The new photography runs in parallel with work on Ambers new feature film, which is concerned with the same territory. Major photography-based multimedia commissions have been awarded to Peter Fryer & David Campbell, who are developing work in South Shields and Dean Chapman who is working with the Burmese Diaspora. Paul Alexander Knox and Ciara Leeming were awarded the two small scale commissions aimed at encouraging emerging photographers.
