ICON was a collaborative project between Arts at the Old Fire Station and Crisis Skylight Oxford. The project brought together Crisis members – people with experience of homelessness – to work in collaboration with internationally renowned photographer Rory Carnegie to recreate and exhibit a series of iconic photographs.
The exhibition took place at the Old Fire Station, 15 November – 23 December 2019.
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How do we understand the impact of ICON? We asked people to tell us their stories. See what we found out.
Read the reportTo help us understand the impact of ICON, we asked people who took part to tell us about the project. How did it affect their life? Why was it important to them? The stories were recorded, transcriped and then edited down to shorter versions – aiming to keep the teller’s ‘voice’ (using their own words).
These are the stories we collected. Where possible, they are read by the tellers. Some are read by actors. See above for the full text of each story.
Funders
Arts Council England
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Jordan Vanderhyde
Oxford City Council
Oxford Executive Coaching Ltd
Oxford University Community Fund
Pye Charitable Settlement
Zelga Miller & Stuart Miller
Supporters
Oxford United Football Club
The Kassam Stadium Management Company
Oxford City Council
Military Vehicle Solutions
St Peter’s College
The Bodleian Libraries
Ashmolean Museum
J James Ltd. Pallets and Wood Recycling
Emmaus Oxford
Shepherd and Woodward
Groovy Su
Oxfordshire Drama Wardrobe
Oxfam, Broad Street
Jean Genie Gloucester Green Market Stall
Creation Theatre
AJ’s wardrobe
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