Maya launches blog gallery

Maya Haviland has announced an exciting new initiative called Side by Side Project Galleries. She writes: “This is an online gallery space featuring work from collaborative art and ethnographic projects around the world. These are projects that work collaboratively with individuals and communities to tell stories – of their lives, places, histories and cultures – using creative tools, such as photography, film, creative writing, visual arts…  The Galleries aim to feature work from projects that have not had a wide audience to date and have been established in conjunction with Side by Side blog – a blog about practices in collaborative art and ethnography I’m running to support my ongoing research into this topic. Please visit the blog  and follow the links to the Project Galleries. On the blog you can subscribe for regular updates, find more info about other projects, how to submit work to the gallery (we are welcoming submissions from projects that would like to be featured), and leave comments.

The initial projects featured are two participatory photography projects from Aboriginal communities in the West Kimberley, Western Australia. More will come in the future, so please keep visiting or subscribe for updates.