We All Live Here, Exhibition Launch

Let's celebrate creativity and community at the We All Live Here Exhibition, as part of NAE's season launch

Come and celebrate the launch of We All Live Here

We All Live Here presents a series of photographs made by young people living in Mansfield, all of whom arrived in the UK as refugees and are now learning to use photography as a tool for storytelling.

Over the course of the project, the photographers turned their cameras towards their everyday worlds: the streets they walk, the places they spend time, the details that catch their attention, the moments that feel ordinary and important at the same time. Rather than focusing on where they have come from, the group chose to speak about presence, perspective, and their experience of living here, now.

The exhibition invites us to look at familiar places through new eyes and to consider how many different stories can exist within the same shared spaces. What emerges is not a single narrative, but a collection of personal viewpoints that are thoughtful, curious, playful, and quietly powerful.

We All Live Here is about belonging not as a finished state, but as something that is built, noticed, and lived every day. It is also about authorship: young people claiming the right to look, to frame, and to say, “this is my view.”

A special thanks to Maun Refuge and their collaboration on this project.

Live DJs and complimentary drinks on arrival*.