Govan through a social lens explores the social realities within a percentage of residents living in an area classified as deprived. Who are subjected to ongoing health, socio-economic, and environmental barriers within the Govan context. While, within this dispossessed context there is great resilience, strength and character from the Govan community on display.

The photographs are a visual engagement tool and a vehicle to widen the dialogue around the ongoing health, socio-economic, environmental barriers and the symptoms they create for many individuals on a day to day basis. We also believe it to be a method for social change, and to offer a clearer and deeper understanding of the lived experience for a number of individuals experiencing poverty.

In order to take this tool to a broader audience at the World Community Development Conference in Dundee this June. I am asking for help with transport and overall admission, which comes to £260.

Photographs stop time, giving the viewer a moment to think, to react, to feel, to soak in the details of complicated situations. Photographs are tools of exploration, passports to inner sanctums, and instruments for change.