Blackfriars Photography Project

The Blackfriars Photography Project at Blackfriars Settlement began as one year experiment “to investigate the uses of photography in community development”. It aimed to make art collaboratively, with and for communities, in ways that reflected local needs and culture.

The project provided equipment and film processing facilities for local people to use and to promote and represent their point of view on threats to their local environment.

“PHOTOGRAPHY CAN MAKE YOU CARE HOW THE WORLD IS RUN"

Young people 8 to 18 learned to develop and print their films in the Settlement dark room. These informal sessions, run by volunteers recruited through ‘Time Out’ magazine, grew into regular fixtures four nights a week.