Portrait of Home (Arpita Shah)
Portrait of Home — Arpita Shah's 2014 photographs, commissioned by Creative Scotland for the Commonwealth Games. Diaspora, family, and belonging.
Arpita Shah, Portrait of Home, 2014, photography
Commissioned by the Creative Scotland to be exhibited as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme in 2014. Portrait of Home is collection of photographs of families based in Scotland who also have cultural roots in other Commonwealth countries. This work celebrates Scotland’s links to the Commonwealth, visually representing how migration between these countries has shaped the national and cultural identity of contemporary Scotland.