Lets Eat (children & diet) for the Bradford Institute for health research photographs by Ian Beesley poem by Ian McMillan

Abstract

In 2015 Born in Bradford started working with Bowling Primary School, Usher Street Bradford, on a series of collaborative arts projects.
The first was a project looking at food. Born in Bradford had been donated a number of smart phones which, once their sim cards had been removed, made excellent digital cameras.
Year 6 pupils were taught how to use them and then were asked to photograph what they had for breakfast, what they had for dinner and what they had for tea.
The images were projected in class for all to discuss.
Ian McMillan, poet, helped them construct this poem around these images whilst Fay Darvill Beesley, a performance artist helped to create movements to accompany the words.
The strength of such a collaborative approach is that it enables us to see into a child’s personal environment from their singular viewpoint, whilst empowering the child in the artistic and editorial performance of the work.