Organised by The Photography Foundation
We welcome you for an inspiring evening celebrating Pride 2024 at The Photography Foundation Studio in North Greenwich.
This special event will feature a discussion with author and queer activist, Sharan Dhaliwal. Known for her impactful work and advocacy within the LGBTQ+ community, Sharan will lead engaging discussions with the audience and read selected passages from her book, Burning My Roti.
This event is a celebration of diversity, inclusion, and self-expression. Anyone can join and we particularly welcome people from the LGBTQIA+ community. See you there!
About the organisers
The Photography Foundation was created to provide pathways to professional photography for less advantaged young adults in London by offering education, practical experience, and routes to a career in the creative industries. The Photography Foundation acknowledges that commercial photography can be a stressful career and feel isolating at times. Our events are intended to promote wellbeing and the importance of making time for inspiration and creativity in your practice in order to maintain a sustainable career.
Sharan Dhaliwal founded the UK’s leading South Asian culture magazine Burnt Roti, which is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others. She is also the Founder and co-Director of Middlesex Pride, an annual free family friendly event centering and celebrating the unheard LGBTQIA+ community in the heavily immigrant Middlesex area.
She created Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night, and has had bylines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019. She has also been on the Diva Power List 2022 & 2023, Attitude 101 2023 and nominated for Broadcast, Journalist or Host at the British LGBT Awards in 2023. Her debut non-fiction, Burning My Roti, about how her Asian identity and queerness came up against capitalism and white supremacy, came out in March 2022 by Hardie Grant.
Image credits © Sharan Dhaliwal
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