Backgrounds Pop-up studio @ Somerset House

Backgrounds was a pop -up studio inspired by Indian photographer Masterji's portraits of newly arrived South Asian immigrants and their families in Coventry. For this Project I worked with five young Magnum-trained photographers taking pictures over the course of the weekend and uploading the portraits live to a dedicated Instagram account. We collectively seated and shot over 70 portraits . These are a selection of images from the portraits I shot that weekend the project is a collaboration with Create Jobs, conceived by creative director Darrell Vydelingum as part of Kaleidoscope: Immigration and Modern Britain, a free photography exhibition exploring what it feels to live as an immigrant, or descendent of immigrants, today. You can see the rest of the photos and other photographers work here : @backgroundsproject