Aneesa Dawoojee: March of The Hummingbirds
Presenting the work of award winning portrait and social-documentary photographer Aneesa Dawoojee, March of the Hummingbirds is a compassionate and considered project that documents the rich histories and cultures of the Caribbean, along with Mauritius, whose histories are closely connected. This body of work stems from Dawoojee鈥檚 desire to show the power of community spirit and how cultures can crossover through shared values and acts of kindness.
Dawoojee鈥檚 strong belief in multiculturalism comes from her Trinidadian and Mauritian parentage. Places where African, Indian, Syrian, Chinese and European people could all be together in one place without judgement. Her home in South London is a similar meeting place of migrant communities who are creating their own fusion of British culture, where everyone has a place.
This project is in memory of all the elders whose ordinary lives were not reflected in textbooks. Inspired by her mother鈥檚 story, and extensive time spent in the Caribbean, Dawoojee has been moved to explore the deeper links between the West Indies and the UK, through themes of inter-race relations, indenture, gender, faith, love and feminism.
While she believes that there is no migrant story that comes without some painful recollections, Dawoojee鈥檚 photographs emphasises the importance in telling these histories by those who lived them. By sharing each story, she hopes to reduce racial tensions and divisions within modern Britain and to display the power in community.
鈥淢y hope is to one day have all this work go into every secondary school in the UK to compliment migrant history, as an alternative way of learning about one another, to encourage empathy (trust) and understanding.鈥� 鈥� Aneesa Dawoojee
Presenting the work of award winning portrait and social-documentary photographer Aneesa Dawoojee, March of the Hummingbirds is a compassionate and considered project that documents the rich histories and cultures of the Caribbean, along with Mauritius, whose histories are closely connected. This body of work stems from Dawoojee鈥檚 desire to show the power of community spirit and how cultures can crossover through shared values and acts of kindness.
Dawoojee鈥檚 strong belief in multiculturalism comes from her Trinidadian and Mauritian parentage. Places where African, Indian, Syrian, Chinese and European people could all be together in one place without judgement. Her home in South London is a similar meeting place of migrant communities who are creating their own fusion of British culture, where everyone has a place.
This project is in memory of all the elders whose ordinary lives were not reflected in textbooks. Inspired by her mother鈥檚 story, and extensive time spent in the Caribbean, Dawoojee has been moved to explore the deeper links between the West Indies and the UK, through themes of inter-race relations, indenture, gender, faith, love and feminism.
While she believes that there is no migrant story that comes without some painful recollections, Dawoojee鈥檚 photographs emphasises the importance in telling these histories by those who lived them. By sharing each story, she hopes to reduce racial tensions and divisions within modern Britain and to display the power in community.
鈥淢y hope is to one day have all this work go into every secondary school in the UK to compliment migrant history, as an alternative way of learning about one another, to encourage empathy (trust) and understanding.鈥� 鈥� Aneesa Dawoojee
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