Yam Cams - Spring 2021 

After mentoring Tom through 3 exhibitions and a book launch we reconnected to work on Yam Cams, alongside 3 other local artists and photographers. 

 

Yam Cams was a photography project open to anyone, and ran in Spring 2021. Commissioned by Creative Black Country Yam Cams encouraged people of the region to take a closer look at their local environment and view it with a fresh eye.

We asked participants to submit images of any subject, taken in any format - as long as they were taken somewhere in one of the 4 Black Country boroughs - Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 

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Through involvement in the project, participants were introduced to documentary photography as an artistic practice and were shown examples of internationally known photographers who have worked in the Black Country. 

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The images were displayed in our online galleries and we selected a range of images for the Yam Cams photobook. 

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I was the Digital Content Creative for the Sandwell borough, which saw me work with local community groups to encourage participation, as well as selection and curation of the Sandwell images. 

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The Yam Cams instagram page can be found here and the book launch recording can be found here. 

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