Beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush Generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. Once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a Better Future for themselves and their families. When they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr
Beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush Generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. Once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a Better Future for themselves and their families. When they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr
We have a mission in a way. i didn t see it as such, but i deeply held something in there saying, i have a mission to be in these places so that i can, so that black people could be in these places. and then we started making our own situation, you know, own companies and helping the other person and so on and so forth. but it was difficult and very frustrating. wonderful. i was very fortunate to be constantly working at something or other and in some other capacity, some other group, some other something at the edinburgh festival, something groundbreaking for us to be seen in this. in that capacity, i was always there. out of that series of stills, i ve chosen an image that i hope she ll like.
We have a mission in a way. i didn t see it as such, but i deeply held something in there saying, i have a mission to be in these places so that i can, so that black people could be in these places. and then we started making our own situation, you know, own companies and helping the other person and so on and so forth. but it was difficult and very frustrating. wonderful. i was very fortunate to be constantly working at something or other and in some other capacity, some other group, some other something at the edinburgh festival, something groundbreaking for us to be seen in this. in that capacity, i was always there. ifound her and photographed her. out of that series of stills,
Itjust seemed, well, you know, it s these are early days. we have a mission in a way. i didn t see it as such, but i deeply held something in there saying, i have a mission to be in these places so that i can, so that black people could be in these places. and then we started making our own situation, you know, own companies and helping the other person and so on and so forth. but it was difficult and very frustrating. wonderful. i was very fortunate to be constantly working at something or other and in some other capacity, some other group, some other something at the edinburgh festival, something groundbreaking for us to be seen in this. in that capacity, i was always there.