About The Book
For over fifty years, families around This Golden Mile have had a shared experience of migrating to Leicester and have re-articulated their South Asian identity to exist within an English context. These experiences bond this community, and they bond them to me. I made this work to give voice to that bond, and I also hope it will contribute to the conversation around immigration to Britain. We have a multicultural society because Britain is the product of a multicultural empire. Communities like this are not an erosion of British values or its culture, but a vital artery in our intertwined and tangled colonial histories. Kavi Pujara
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About The Artist
Kavi Pujara (born Leicester, 1972) is a self-taught photographer. He works as a film editor for the BBC alongside independently making personal, long-term documentary photo projects. His work has been included in the touring group exhibition Facing Britain. British documentary photography since the 1960s which has been exhibited at Museum for Photography, Krakow, Poland, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany and Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany. Pujara was one of the winners in the British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain 2020 and recipient of a Martin Parr Foundation photographic bursary in 2020. This Golden Mile coincides with an exhibition of the work at Martin Parr Foundation.
Exhibition: This Golden Mile at Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol from 6 October-18 December 2022
Video: Where is the Golden Mile and who lives there? by Martin Parr Foundation (Youtube)
