The video carries many of the threads that run though Cammock’s work, such as using photography and documentary film methods to explore the intimate bonds of history, often of colonialism, racism and cultural appropriation—in this case, tracing the slavery trade created to prop up the now-disappearing sugar production in the Caribbean—and first-person accounts of the disjointed experience of those ‘subjects’ who moved from the West Indies to the UK.
The video carries many of the threads that run though Cammock’s work, such as using photography and documentary film methods to explore the intimate bonds of history, often of colonialism, racism and cultural appropriation—in this case, tracing the slavery trade created to prop up the now-disappearing sugar production in the Caribbean—and first-person accounts of the disjointed experience of those ‘subjects’ who moved from the West Indies to the UK.
Helen Cammock
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