The project is a socially engaged collaboration between Stephanie Wynne and a womens group assisted by photography graduate Stephanie Fawcett.
Wirral Change, is a centre supporting disadvantaged and BME communities, come from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. Most of the group members are multi-lingual with English as a second language. To find a common language the work uses the universality of photography to communicate between the participants. It consists of visual responses with each member of the group finding an image, initially taken by the photographers, that resonates with them and then replying with another image. The women, responding to each other and the photographers replying to them, then produced whole conversations. These conversations are presented in long strips, occasionally linked, referencing pieces of film.The conversations, reveal the women’s love of home, colour, landscape and the environment, they also include images from the participants family archives and documentation of their journeys to Britain and around the world.
Additionally the women are represented in a set of formal portraits that give clues to their backgrounds. They are shown within images of their own mirror frames, or selected picture frames, to conjure the sense of contemplating their own reflection - looking how they wish to appear.The colour palette used for the panels is taken from the Della Robbia Collection. These photographs are then specific to the Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead and Wirral – linking the women to Wirral, their chosen home.