For this development I was inspired by the work of Idris Khan, a photographer who creates multiple layers of a single photo to create a blurring effect to distort reality and show the depth of the world. I felt that this concept was applicable to my thesis of multi culture as the layering of religious buildings represents the interconnections of different cultures in London. In my image I layered images of a mosque, a church and a Greek Orthodox church and decreased the opacity of the images to create a melting pot of religion. Khan creates these images through long exposures and movement of the camera making it seem as if the position of the London eye has moved. I used short exposures to capture each building and layered them using Photoshop.
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David Jimenez, Columbia. A first generation immigrant that fluently speaks Spanish and came to England to escape the corrupt government system in Columbia. He still see's his original country as a massive part of his heritage.
Angela Rrakaj, Albania . A second generation immigrant who has grown up in London all her life and speaks Albanian at home.
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Sophia Kyriacou, Cyprus. A second generation immigrant who has grown up in London all her life
Anais kafantaris, Greece. A second generation immigrant who has grown up in London all her life and speaks Greek with her family and still highly values her Greek culture.
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Neboska was an extremely interesting man to talk to. He left Yugoslavia just before the start of the wars in 1991.The Yugoslav Wars were a series of ethnically-based wars and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 2001 inside the territory of the former Yugoslavia. After the Allied victory in World War II, Yugoslavia was set up as a federation of six republics, with borders drawn along ethnic and historical lines: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. He left his country after falling in love with his wife to be Andrea and began his life in England. He spoke of troubles with his identity after moving to London. He was born into a country that doesn't exist anymore. After his parents died in Serbia he felt very disconnected from his past and found it hard to go back. He is happy in London as he is happy where ever his family are. To Londoner's, he is classified as Serbian which he hates. He will always identify himself as Yugoslavian. However when he travels back to what use to be Yugoslavia they identify him as English. It is fascinating to think how strange it must be, being stuck between two identities.
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