Visualising Social Identities and Action: Lives in Britain Today

This project came about as an experiment to see what would happen if a photographer collaborated with a number of social science research teams in order to examine questions of identity. We commissioned London based photographer Chris Clunn to work with seven of the projects funded under the Economic and Social Research Council's Identities and Social Action Programme. We gave him and the teams the freedom to interpret the brief as widely as they pleased. We wanted Chris to capture something of the ways in which the researchers were thinking about questions of social identity and action in the early 21st Century.

We wanted to portray the complexity and diversity of identities and everyday lives in the UK now. We also wanted to explore what difference the visual makes to the stories researchers can tell about their work and to see how images of identity connect with a wider audience than would normally be the case with academic study.

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