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I call this place home


In the late 1960s, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson spent two years working on what would become one of his most famous projects, ‘East 100th Street’. Exploring the interior spaces and life on the street of the inhabitants of a block in New York’s East Harlem, his black and white images are acknowledged as a classic documentation of the American ghetto. The work from the finished project was displayed in the city’s Museum of Modern Art and published in 1970 as a book of the same title.
Cities change, areas even more so. With her project ‘I call this place home’, Tanya Ahmed explores the place she has called home for 14 years. We meet the people who are her neighbours, the current residents of East 100th Street.
Tanya, who is British, had her first photographic spread published in The Reading Evening Post when she was 16. After studying for a BTEC in photography at Berkshire College of Art and Design, she worked as a freelance photographer in the UK, Australia and the US, moving to the US in 1993. She is currently completing her level 3 studies at the OCA.
‘I call this place home’ is the first exhibition in a new collaboration between innovative cross-disciplinary Sheffield arts centre Bank Street Arts and the OCA. The exhibition runs from 6 to 16 June and OCA assessor and tutor Maggy Milner will be running a study visit at the gallery on Friday 15 June. The visit will start at 11am. To book a place students should email enquiries@oca-uk.com.


Posted by author: Genevieve Sioka

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