Exhibition
Kal-Aaj-aur-Kal

Venue
Silk Mill Museum

Dates
22 September to
22 October

Times
Monday, 11am to 5pm
Tuesday to Saturday,
10am to 5pm
Sunday, 1pm to 4pm

Flash
Artist's talk, 10 October

Nudrat Afza
Nudrat Afza lives and works in Bradford. Her photographs provide an insight into diverse communities in the UK and allow the viewer to see behind doors that might ordinarily
be closed to the general public. Afza’s work spans studies of local history, social documentary and oral testimony. Past commissions have allowed the artist to document the lives of members of the Jewish, Sikh, Irish, Polish, Vietnamese, Muslim, Ukrainian and Afro-Caribbean communities in her local area.

Kal-Aaj-aur-Kal (an Arabic expression meaning yesterday, today and tomorrow) is a body of work depicting older people from different communities. The photographs tell a powerful story of how older people with dementia, transformed by age and circumstance, are cared for within the NHS. The word ‘Kal’ in Arabic is ambiguous, as it refers to the past and the future; a suitable duality for pictures showing the aging process.

The project was devised in association with Blue SCI, an
organisation for people with mental health issues at risk of social and cultural exclusion.

The publication that accompanies this exhibition is available from the Format Information Centre.