Using social documentary photography to enhance community cohesion amongst young people.

拟议的研究采取参与式社区艺术项目的形式，使来自社会和文化不同背景的年轻人能够通过纪实摄影来表现和分享他们的日常生活。它的基础是大众观察对二十世纪三十年代日常生活的记录，特别是使用纪实摄影和自我反思(通过日记写作)作为记录和解释工人阶级生活的一种手段。这项提案再次提到了博尔顿的大规模观测“工作区”项目。这包括汉弗莱·斯彭德制作的一份记录博尔顿人们从事购物和工作等日常活动的纪实照片档案。这一独特且未被充分利用的国家大众观察档案由博尔顿博物馆持有，并构成了该项目旨在调查当今日常社区生活的起点。拟议的研究将侧重于不同社会和种族背景的14-19岁的年轻人，并使用社会纪实摄影来鼓励他们发展自己对自己社区日常生活的再现。它的目的是利用摄影表现来提高文化意识和社区凝聚力。在这方面，社区凝聚力不仅指不同族裔背景的年轻人之间存在牢固的社会和文化关系，而且还指年轻人和老年人之间的关系。社区凝聚力在博尔顿仍然是一个重要的社会和政治问题，在全国也是如此。博尔顿议会是首批认识到在其众多不同社区之间建立凝聚力的重要性的地方当局之一，并实施了一系列倡议，以鼓励社区之间更多的理解和宽容。学生将在博尔顿博物馆工作，并将以斯彭德工作室的藏品为基础，使年轻人能够在21世纪制作他们自己的博尔顿摄影记录。许多与年轻人合作的组织--例如学校、Bolton Connexion和Bolton Lads and Girls Club--将帮助建立和保持年轻人与该项目之间的联系。它将寻求促进对今天在博尔顿的“家”对他们意味着什么的思考，从而利用MO的方面，捕捉到一种地方感和归属感。然而，这与Spender的方法不同，因为学生将支持并使参与者能够创建自己的21世纪博尔顿日常图像，然后他们将定期会面，分析生成的图像--查看他们自己“团队”中的相似和不同之处。在该项目的最后阶段，不同的青年群体将与其他群体的成员分享他们的图像。与博尔顿博物馆合作，将制作这些照片的展览，在城镇周围的社区公共场所展出。这与博尔顿的其他社区艺术活动是一致的，也是这项工作的一个方面，受到了合作研究的组织的欢迎。学生将通过支持上文概述的社区影响，产生、实施和评估一种适合社会纪实摄影项目的方法，寻求在社区背景下吸引不同文化背景的年轻人。这项研究的受益者将是在社区艺术和博尔顿博物馆工作的年轻参与者、学者和从业人员，方法是加强社区对目前未得到充分利用的主要藏品的利用。进一步的成果将是Humphrey Spender Worktown收藏作为SIG的纪实照片档案的增强侧写

The proposed research assumes the form of a participatory community arts project which will enable young people from social and culturally diverse backgrounds to represent and share with others their everyday lives through documentary photography. It is grounded in Mass-Observation's documentation of everyday life in the nineteen-thirties and in particular its use of documentary photography and self reflection (through diary-writing) as a means of recording and interpreting working-class lives. This proposal re-visits the Mass-Observation 'Worktown' project in Bolton. This included the production by Humphrey Spender of a documentary photograph archive of people in Bolton engaged in everyday activities such as shopping and working. This unique and under-exploited element of the national Mass Observation archive is held by Bolton Museum and forms the starting point for the project's aim of investigating everyday community life today. The proposed research will focus on young people aged 14-19 of differing social and ethnic backgrounds and use social documentary photography to encourage them to develop their own representations of everyday life in their own communities. It aims to deploy photographic representation to enhance cultural awareness and community cohesion. In this context, community cohesion refers not only to the existence of strong social and cultural relationships between young people of differing ethnic backgrounds but also to relationships between young people and older people. Community cohesion remains an important social and political issue in Bolton as it does nationally. Bolton Council was one of the first local authorities to recognise the importance of building cohesion between its many diverse communities and has implemented a number of initiatives to encourage greater understanding and tolerance between communities.The student will be based at Bolton Museum and will use the Spender Worktown collection as a base from which to enable young people to produce their own photographic record of Bolton in the twenty first century. A number of organisations which work with young people - for example schools, Bolton Connexions and Bolton Lads and Girls Club - will help to create and maintain links between young people and the project. It will seek to facilitate reflection on what 'home' means to them in Bolton today and so draw upon the aspect of MO which captures a sense of place and belonging. However it will differ from Spender's approach as rather than a reliance on a 'professional' photographer, the student will support and enable participants to create their own everyday images of twenty-first century Bolton They will then meet on a regular basis to analyse the resultant images- looking at similarities and differences within their own 'group'. In the final phase of the project the various cohorts of young people will share their images with members of the other groups. In collaboration with Bolton Museum, exhibitions of the photographs will be produced for display within neighbourhood community public venues around the town. This is consistent with other community arts-activity in Bolton and is an aspect of the work which has been welcomed by those organisations collaborating in the research.The student will, through enabling the community impacts outlined immediately above, produce, implement and evaluate a methodology appropriate for social documentary photography projects seeking to engage culturally diverse cohorts of young people in community contexts. Beneficiaries of the research will be the young participants, academic and practitioners working in community arts and Bolton Museum through the enhanced community use of a major yet currently under-used collection. A further outcome will be the enhanced profile of the Humphrey Spender Worktown Collection as a documentary photographic archive with sig