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‘Emptied Lives’ - Sari Arraf (KCL, School of Law, Yr1)

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‘Emptied Lives’ - Sari Arraf (KCL, School of Law, Yr1)

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The interior of the old Mukhtar’s house in the destroyed Palestinian village of Deir el-Qasi, north of Palestine. The family that once lived here was expelled together with the rest of the village in 1948, making place for the erection of an Israeli Jewish settlement on its ruins. The jarring contrast between the lush frescos covering the ceiling and the detritus strewn on the ground conveys the essence of the Palestinian struggle: one that seeks to transcend the abysmal destruction of settler-colonialism towards loftier ideals of freedom and justice.

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'Rage and Resistance: A Vigil for Sarah Everard' - Isabel Stuart (QMUL, School of English  Drama, Yr3)

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'Rage and Resistance: A Vigil for Sarah Everard' - Isabel Stuart (QMUL, School of English  Drama, Yr3)

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I took this photo at Sarah Everard's vigil on Clapham Common in March 2021. It represents a moment of rage, solidarity, and resistance against state violence and violence against women. The photo also captures the calm before the storm. It was taken moments before the police used extreme force to silence and disperse the crowd. My research is about the value of feelings to the feminist movement, and the vigil was a moment to feel and grieve collectively in ways that were politically powerful.

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'So Tight', 2022, UV print and oil on linen, 20 x 40cm - Emily Sparkes (RCA, Yr2)

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'So Tight', 2022, UV print and oil on linen, 20 x 40cm - Emily Sparkes (RCA, Yr2)

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Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. - DELEUZE & GUATTARI

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‘The Historical Collections Room at the Natural History Museum London’ - Brad Scott (QMUL, CDA - English Department, Yr1)

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‘The Historical Collections Room at the Natural History Museum London’ - Brad Scott (QMUL, CDA - English Department, Yr1)

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This is the oldest part of the botanical collection in the museum, most of which was amassed by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), though collected by over 300 other people from Europe, Asia and most of the British colonial world. On the left is an annotated copy of John Ray's Historia Plantarum, which is a guide to many of the plants in the collection. The drawer contains part of the Vegetable Substances collection, thousands of boxes of seeds and other plant materials that couldn't be stuck in a book. The open herbarium volume shows some late seventeenth century plant collections, some XML descriptive data for which is being prepared as part of the project.

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'Call and response' - Gina Robinson (KCL, Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Yr 1)

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'Call and response' - Gina Robinson (KCL, Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Yr 1)

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This is an image of me playing capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form and the subject of my research. Capoeira is a mixture of martial arts, music, acrobatics, and dance. Two people 'play' a physical game, physically testing and challenging each other, in the middle of a circle. Games are accompanied by music and singing. In the image, the person I am playing with is calling me in a 'chamada'. I approach with caution, blocking his knee with one hand (so that I don't receive a surprise knee in the face!) and reaching for his hand with the other. 'Chamada' literally means 'a call'. It is used to 'reset' the game, to reconnect when there has been a breakdown in communication, when it is getting too heated or one-sided, or if someone has received a kick or take down. It is a powerful metaphor for the non-verbal negotiations and connections that arise when you engage with someone in the roda (circle)!

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‘A day in the life of a Black poet in Academia’ - Nicholas Makoha (KCL, English, Yr3)

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‘A day in the life of a Black poet in Academia’ - Nicholas Makoha (KCL, English, Yr3)

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Malika Booker Raymond Antrobus Mbe, Dr Keith Jarrett  recording poems at Spiritland Studio in King’s Cross for the Obsidian Foundation inaugural addition to the Poetry Archive.

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‘Emerging from a long confinement, the arms of a cactus unfurl themselves in the sun’ - Jonathan Egid (KCL, Comparative Literature, Yr 2)

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‘Emerging from a long confinement, the arms of a cactus unfurl themselves in the sun’ - Jonathan Egid (KCL, Comparative Literature, Yr 2)