This project results from a creative wellbeing commission undertaken by the Creative Health Camden organisation and myself. The project aims to highlight the diverse range of people who benefit from the services provided by Creative Health Camden, specifically a group within the organisation called Drawn Together.

This is done by facilitating self-portraits, providing participants with a platform to control how they wish to be represented and attempting to reaffirm their agency in the process. They were also tasked with bringing objects they felt represented their identities to be photographed, allowing them the space to discuss how their chosen objects relate to their identities and why they brought them. Thus, the act of photography becomes a medium to discuss well-being, mental health, and identity.

Creative Health Camden: We work at the intersection of community, health and the arts to engage individuals with creative and social activities that explore their wellbeing. We work in partnership with the James Wigg and Queens Crescent GP practices as part of a social prescribing model.

Drawn Together: is a creative community using arts practices to support connection, explore ways of seeing, sensing and experiencing ourselves and one another, and deepen our curiosity.