Old Roots - Nu Shoots saw the young people work with curators to explore the collections of the V&A and in particular make connections with items on display in the museum's metalwork and fashion and textiles collections.
The result was a series of curated photographs and a film made by the young people in the response to their chosen items.
In the first week participants worked with historian Peter Ashan and photographer Othello De’Souza Hartley to create photo-documentary images of their chosen Museum object.
During the second week they learned to transfer these skills to film making with Patrick Dickinson of Story B Films to create a short film of their work. V&A stores participants visited were Word and Image Department, Metal Work, Fashion and Textiles and the stores at Blythe House Olympia.
Old Roots - Nu Shoots was supported by the British Council Youth in Action Scheme
Find out about the project in more detail and discover some of the objects the students chose to re-interpret. Old Roots - Nu Shoots in detail
Watch a Powerpoint presentation of the work
This is a 2.5 mb Powerpoint slideshow, of some of the work from Old Roots - Nu Shoots is best viewed using Internet Explorer. To view the pictures, you need Microsoft Powerpoint installed on your computer.
Download the file, there be a short wait while the file downloads, then your browser should show the pictures.
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, download the file and open locally with Powerpoint. You'll find the slides run without opening a browser window.
Clicking on the screen while the pictures scroll should allow you to go back and forth through the images.
Coming soon - watch the Old Roots Nu Shoots film
The students also made a dvd of their experiences, which will shortly be uploaded to this site and hosted on YouTube. You will be able to find it on YouTube by searching 'Old Roots Nu Shoots' or you will be able to simply watch the embedded link below. (Link to follow).
