Beth
The young people in these photographs participated in film-making or photography workshops facilitated by the Strand Arts Centre, Belfast. Both workshops focused on capturing the theme of ‘freedom’ and took place in the former Strand Spinning Mill in East Belfast: a unique, unchanged industrial space which overlooks the city and survived the Belfast Blitz, despite extensive damage in its locality.
Lucy
Both workshops focused on capturing the theme of ‘freedom’ and took place in the former Strand Spinning Mill in East Belfast: a unique, unchanged industrial space which overlooks the city and survived the Belfast Blitz, despite extensive damage in its locality.
Anna
All of the participants were born after the Good Friday Agreement, which marked the beginning of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Hearing their perspectives on what ‘freedom’ means to them was therefore particularly compelling.
Timothy
Their reflections — shaped by personal, local, and global contexts — were both insightful and profound, prompting consideration of the fragile balance between freedom and peace, and what our collective future may hold.
Callum
Chad Alexander is an artist from Belfast, N.Ireland. His work focuses on the impact conflict and control have upon people and their environments. Through his work and everyday surroundings he explores friction and harmonies, between place and identity.
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