The University of Liverpool is playing a key role in a city-wide photography project that sees imagery presented on campus with a complementary app designed by the University to help people explore this key part of EuroFestival.
In collaboration with Open Eye Gallery, the University campus joins other city-centre public realm sites to display a selection of six Ukrainian photographers who tell their stories about home through images. Displayed alongside the images are responding poems written by six UK poets including Professor Deryn Rees-Jones from the University's Department of English.
Deryn has also contributed to At Home, a special edition of Open Eye Gallery's in-house magazine TILT, which will be available at Open Eye. The magazine, produced in partnership with the University's Centre for New and International Writing, shows photographs by contemporary Ukrainian photographers and poems and essays created in response to them. Speaking about producing the zine, Prof Deryn Rees-Jones, Co-Director of the Centre for New and International Writing, said: "The work featured here is by current and former students of Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool, and one poet whose work is published by Pavilion Poetry. All the writers, who are at different stages of their lives and careers, have had a chance to reflect, in poetry or prose, on what home means, using the photographs as a bridge to their own memory and imagination. Working on the zine has given us all an important opportunity to reflect on the war in Ukraine and its devastating impact."
