Photo series: Immigrant Landscapes

3/5 Immigrant Landscapes: a photo series in Southall We are walking in the footsteps of our parents and grandparents, who made towns like Southall, Brampton, Richmond Hill, Surrey and Fresno their homes. They cure their pain by seeing us soar.

1/5 Immigrant Landscapes: a photo series in Southall I remember speaking to a Canadian who found the name of this gambling spot hilarious. I find it captures the area’s juxtaposition well, especially next to a suit.

4/5 Immigrant Landscapes: a photo series in Southall Immigrants often have to take their security into their own hands. Police are rarely seen as friends but more like patrol squads from out of town. Anytime an outside threat appears, locals come out in masses to resist, protect and keep law and order. Thug life since the day they arrived.

5/5 Immigrant Landscapes: a photo series in Southall A place of limitless stories of human triumph. Most people leave immigrant melting pots for the suburbs and do their best to forget where they came from. Even if you were never from places like Southall, failing to see their beauty is the same as ignoring the community’s beauty, and therefore your own beauty. Southall isn’t just a place, it’s a state of mind. Southall pride ਜ਼ਿੰਦਾਬਾਦ.

2/5 Immigrant Landscapes: a photo series in Southall Growing up I often heard the term ‘freshie’ blasted around to describe recent immigrants and as an insult to each other. We were wrong, these folk are soldiers defying the odds. His eyes say it all: heartaches and hard work.