Mindmap:

We started this project by making a mindmap of our ideas around the theme of ‘islandness’. After finishing it I decided I wanted to look at migrant families and their families, instead of looking at material things on the island. This is because I believe that the people on Jersey are very important to the island and its history.

Ideas:

• I could look at immigration on the island by photographing Romania/Portuguese/Polish (etc) people and interviewing them about their experience in Jersey. I’d convert those interviews to text and add them t my zine/film. Recording them would work well for a film. Could call it ‘Away from Home’ or something maybe idk.

• Compare the life of English people to the lives of immigrant people in Jersey. Could do this by photographing inside of houses and compare how they differ. Show different cultures. Photograph food, items of clothing etc.

• Look at my own private archive at home. Find pictures of my mum in 90s Romania and recreate them. Compare what life was like back then for her to what life is like for me now in the UK. I can also interview her and ask her about how it was to move so much at such a young age and how it has affected her (Romania > Greece > Jersey). Look at documents and government papers regarding our immigration status.

• Take self-portraits and explore the theme of ‘isolation’ and what being away from your own country is like. Could take pictures of my friends as well.