UNREPORTED UPRISINGS

Frontline workers across all sectors of society - including arts, education, healthcare, housing, transport
Breadline workers cannot afford food from workplace canteens: the UK’s ongoing ‘Cost Of Living Crisis’
Picket line UK’s biggest protests of workers since 1926’s General Strike - almost a million protestors galvanised en masse in Spring 2024.

Exhibited at NOW Gallery 11th October - 17th November 2024
contemporary portraits and video curated alongside archive from with Getty, British Pathé, Kinolibrary

Currently available to tour
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HERE TO STAY

2018 marked the seventy year anniversary of Windrush Generation pioneers arriving in the UK, which led to the birth of the National Health Service, in 1948. Pioneers of the Windrush Generation were and continue to be the bloodline and backbone of our NHS. The NHS commissioned a series of photographic portraits and oral histories, months before the Windrush Scandal hit the headlines.

Here To Stay toured across London, Birmingham and the wider West Midlands (2018-2023)
hosting fifteen iterations. The exhibition and remains on permanent display at Sandwell Hospital’s Education Centre. Portrait sitters can be identified with aluminium nameplates below each photograph.

west indies to west midlands (2013 - 2015)

The beginnings of ongoing collaborations with pioneers of the Windrush Generation: a self-initiated documentary portraiture series of West Indian & West African war veterans who fought for the British military and now reside across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. No contextual captions are provided to respect veterans who requested their names, origins & details of their military service remained anonymous, to protect their identities.

Project participants leading a procession through the gallery space with battle standards, before presenting their censored history to the audience - in their own words.

Portrait sitters and project participants leading a procession through the gallery space with battle standards, before presenting their censored history to the audience - in their own words.

Exhibited at The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre from Remembrance Day on the centenary of WW1
(11th of November 2014 - 7th January 2015)

Balsall Heath carnival, BIRMINGHAM (2013-2017)

Sunny Intervals (2010 - 2012)
MOORPOOL, haRBORNE, bIRMINGHAM

Moorpool Estate was built according to 19th century, Arts and Crafts movement, Garden Suburb principles; sensitive planning with the aim of social reform. The Garden Suburb also drew on new ideas of Garden Cities, which were intended to be self-sufficient economic units, and they were a reaction to the
back-to-back housing that excluded light, air, and sunshine from urban dwellings.

DALAL ARCHIVE (SHORT FILM)

Dalal Archive (2014)
6 minutes 29 seconds

Directed and co-edited by Inès Elsa Dalal
Premiered at Midlands Art Centre

These photographs are a personal archive of from an album dated 1958-70, gifted to me by my German-Danish Grandmother, Meike. Narrated through a conversation / anecdotal family history with my father about the German-Parsi element of my ancestry.

Created in honour of my Parsi grandfather: Zarir Phiroze Dalal