A Place To Call Home - University of Birmingham

In late 2022 I was approached to take photographs for a University of Birmingham exhibition exploring aspects of Home. It was a great project and opportunity to meet & photograph folk with very different experiences including homelessness, involuntary migration and social issues.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/the-exchange/exhibitions/a-place-to-call-home

…from the University website:

“About A Place To Home

In our recent interactive exhibition, Making Home, we invited you to respond to questions about home and homelessness. You told us that home is more than a physical place and that it can summon up strong emotions. Explore what we discovered about what home means to all of us in our follow up exhibition, A Place to Call Home.

We invite you to see homelessness, adult social care and displacement through the eyes of people who have lived experience, in a new exhibition that shares the University of Birmingham’s latest research.

Through this photographic exhibition meet people from the present and the past as they share their story”. 

George Melly

Taken at Southport Arts Centre in 1993 on a cold, wet night. He was late for the gig (he'd been relaxing in a nearby public house) but one of the band members had a word with him on my behalf, and he allowed me a few minutes to get some shots.