Photome online exhibition

Where do you like to be? Where do you feel ‘at home’? What objects are important to you?

If you could only keep as many things as you can hold in your hands and your pockets, what would they be?

image of a camera Photome is an exhibition of photographs that explores and reflects on our sense of home and belonging: in London, abroad, or wherever we find ourselves, permanently or temporarily. In these striking photographs everyday objects become extraordinary: a light bulb, a radiator, a sofa, carpet. What we consider normal is different for us all.

WINNER! One of the participants of our Photome project was joint winner on the Refugee Week Photo competition 2007. Read the news story.

The Photome photographers are a group of young people who attend the Tuesday drop-in social evening held at the Refugee Council.

Online exhibition

Home

Photome's main exhibition is of photographs that explore and reflect on our sense of home and belonging: in London, abroad, or wherever we find ourselves, permanently or temporarily.

Portraits

The participants explored different ways of representing themselves, such as by not showing their faces, making a portrait with an object that is important to them, directing a photographer and using studio lights to gain different lighting effects.

Telling stories

During the workshops the participants were given various exercises to develop their understanding of how photographs can tell stories, how to create narratives by constructing a sequence of images and how the meaning of an image can change depending on its context.

Movement

As the workshops took place throughout the winter months it was possible to use the dark evenings to do some night photography and to experiment capturing movement in different ways using long exposures well as using the flash.

Photoshop

During the final workshops the group learned basic Photoshop skills, how to cut out certain elements, use filters and create layers and collages. They were given a brief – to design their own personal album cover using their photographs and incorporating text.

Homework

In between workshops the young people were given single-use cameras and ‘homework’ tasks in order to practise what they learned in the session.

About the Photo me project

The Photo me photographers are a group of young people who attend the drop-in social evening held at the Refugee Council.

Copyright

All the images on this online exhibition are copyright or the Refugee Council and Zoom-in and cannot be used for any other purpose.