Piece Together: Documenting Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic is a documentary photography exhibition by ACAVA’s young and emerging photographers’ group, ACAVA Shoots. It charts the creation of the Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic public artworks alongside photographs of the community since the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy. The photographs were first displayed at ACAVA Maxilla Walk Studios in North Kensington in June 2022, and are now touring to The Photographers’ Gallery from 8 – 10 July.

The exhibition is accompanied by In Conversation: How can radical community documentary photography shift the power of the lens? With the decline of investment in local news, significant socio-economic barriers in a career in photography, and the domination of a mainstream media lens of the Grenfell community, this event will look at how ACAVA Shoots has empowered three emerging photographers to tell a different story.

Join Jolie Hockings, Curator, Schools & Young People at The Photographer’s Gallery, members of the ACAVA Shoots team and Ismahan Egal, Art Therapy Coordinator at Al Manaar to discuss what it has meant to the photographers to be part of a radical approach to career development and a collective producing this important body of work.

ACAVA Shoots supports emerging photographers from North Kensington to develop their professional practice and portfolios, through professional mentoring and paid assignments.

Read more about ACAVA Shoots here.

Further information:

Piece Together: Documenting Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic
Eranda Studio, The Photographers’ Gallery
Private View | Friday 8 July, 6-8pm
Opening hours | 8-10 July (Fri & Sat 10am-6pm / Sun 11am-6pm)
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In Conversation: How can radical community documentary photography shift the power of the lens? With Jolie Hockings, Curator, Schools & Young People at The Photographer’s Gallery, members of the ACAVA Shoots team and Ismahan Egal, Art Therapy Coordinator at Al Manaar.
Saturday 9 July, 12.30pm | Free entry