Image & Identity will be an exhibition displayed at the Museum of Oxford in late 2022.
The exhibition will use colonial period photography from Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Oxfordshire as a springboard for contemporary discussions and explorations.
Throughout the project, people of different backgrounds will engage with colonial period photography and together reflect on the links between those and current conversations around identity, post-colonialism, decolonisation, and the impact of the British Empire on private lives, both in Oxfordshire and globally.
This website is a companion piece to the physical exhibition. We will use it to collect digital versions of photographs from private and community archives, not just from Oxfordshire and Sri Lanka, but from across the world, from the period 1845-1930.
We invite everyone to contribute their photographs and stories behind those photographs.
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S.F. Amerasinghe, Cambridge Univ. Trinity Hall, Matriculation circa 1923. Cambridge, UK
S.F. Amerasinghe, Cambridge Univ. Trinity Hall, Matriculation circa 1923. Cambridge, UK
The Donald Obeysekere Family (My great grandfather)
The Donald Obeysekere Family (My great grandfather) - circa 1920s, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Grand Uncle Eric Amerasinghe
Circa 1930's Grand Uncle Eric Amerasinghe, Royal College. Colombo, Ceylon