Black Heritage and Ridley Road

Future Hackney is a participatory arts project funded and supported by a range of organisations to help London’s communities to share and archive their own histories through documentary photography. Ridley Road Stories is a public archive of Hackney’s African and Caribbean communities on Ridley Road E8 around the market. The project is ongoing and the images are displayed on the streets. It was hugely enjoyable and rewarding to interact with local residents across intergenerational groups and document their stories in images.