“Don’t You Forget About Me” is a collaborative photo project with six children aged 5 to 11 from an asylum seeker center in Katwijk, Netherlands. The idea emerged when I overheard a conversation on the bus when children sat next to me and started speaking Arabic in a dialect I recognised. They were talking about music from back home, sharing their experiences.
The project evolved from winter to summer, navigating through changes, rotation and finding stability with the group of children. Sharing the camera among us was used during the workshops as a collective method for personal expression, with anonymity playing a central role.
With the camera, we got closer together and gave rise to conversations about shared passions in a language that everyone could understand across cultural and linguistic divides: photography.
A project devlopped with De Vrolijkheid.
