London exhibition honours 'human stories' of migrants
The Peninsula
London: Weeks after anti immigrant riots spread across England, a London exhibition is celebrating the impact immigrant communities have had on Britai...
London: Weeks after anti-immigrant riots spread across England, a London exhibition is celebrating the impact immigrant communities have had on Britain through photos, testimonies and art installations.
Migration is "often seen as something that's very divisive" but in reality "is just a part of our daily lives", said Aditi Anand, curator of "All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain".
"It's shaped Britain over the centuries and we want to get a sense of that long history and show that migration has always been happening," she told AFP.
The exhibition, which opened Thursday at London's Migration Museum, features 7,000 testimonies, 200 photographs and contributions from about 50 artists.
It aims to show the "human stories behind the headlines", added Anand, the museum's artistic director, who said migration had influenced Britain from food to fashion.
