Through the Looking Glass: Life Behind the Knife

Through the Looking Glass: Life Behind the Knife

Artist Emma Barnard and Waltham Forest Young advisors will co-design a programme of creative activities for young people with a lived experience of knife crime. They will have the opportunity to create photographic interpretations of life from their own perspectives and will be supported through the programme to discover and develop their creative skills in a safe space. 

Through peer-to-peer engagement in specially created workshops over one year and the creation of a body of artistic works, Through the Looking Glass gives the public a chance to view the impact of knife crime directly through these young peoples eyes. The finished photographic artworks will be exhibited in pop-up exhibitions across the borough.