FONDS (2022-24)FONDS was created in 2022, during a two year community based residency with Street Level Photoworks as part of their Culture Collective programme. Told using photography and in the participants' own words, FONDS is a project about how the evocative objects we keep connect us to the people and places we love. Residents of Govanhill, an area on the Southside of Glasgow, were invited to share an evocative object. It was developed in partnership with Greater Govanhill community magazine and Thriving Govanhill. In 2022, the images were shown in shop windows as an outdoor exhibition around the neighbourhood.
In 2024, in addition to a new series of photographs, we introduce the FONDS podcast series, produced by Flora Zajicek. Each episode unfolds over eight minutes, the time it takes for Morwenna to photograph the object in complete darkness with an innovative technique using a long exposure and moving torchlight. To subscribe, search for FONDS wherever you get your podcasts.
SONIA: Many, many years ago, our grandparents had a lot of jewellery featuring gold coins. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
FAREEHA: This plaster was given to me by my dad when he was visiting me. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
KATE: A lot of people aren't able to take a lot of things with them when they're leaving Ukraine just now. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ANNE: I remember seeing this figure in my grandmother’s house and I just really loved the glamour of it *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Tim: This is my first fountain pen. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
KELLY: This hat is from a 'free cap day' in July of 2018 at the Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles, where I was born and raised… *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ESRAA: Kuwait was very famous for sailing, diving, anything related to the sea. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Mohammed: I've always kept it safe because it represents a gift from my mum. My grandmother made it for her when I was little. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
EWA: This object reminds me of my power and my strength. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Najat: In 2007, this was the first photography camera that I bought with my own money. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Rachel: When I was younger, my relationship with my hearing aids was a fractured one. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Rhiannon: My grandmother was very open about death, even when we were young. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
Samuel: It feels like an artefact. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ARIJ: This perfume, it reminds me of my mum. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
DYLAN: I got to pick the colour of this object. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ENGELS: Back in 2018, there was a social political situation back in my country where we were just fighting for our rights and as a citizen, I felt I had the responsibility to support my people. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
JACK: I had one of those aunties, who’s not actually your auntie but you call her your auntie, called Jo. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
JANA: Wearing a chain with a cross means that God is protecting you. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
RAHELA: My son is now one and is my third child, but my first son. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ROSIES DISOBEDIENT PRESS: Me and my collaborator devised Sleeper during lockdown. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
SOFIA: It was one of those long and uncertain covid days in the first lockdown where you would try to fill your day andI sat outside with my partner teaching her to play Tavli (or backgammon). *Click on the image to see/hear more*
V: My sister was a fashion designer and she made it as a present for me when I would have my first baby, but I was only young then, I was still at school and I didn’t plan to have a baby. Unfortunately war broke out in my country and we had to run to save our lives. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
MONIKA: We Roma like to wear gold, because if you see it shining on us, we feel more expressive in it. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
URSULA: I first got this case when I was in Hong Kong with my family. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
TIM: I found my pipefish a few inches from my foot on a beach in the Lake District. It made me jump and maybe scream a little bit, before I realised it was dead and not a snake. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
SAMAR: The object has been in our family for a really long time. My mum got it from her aunt or her mum for her wedding, so around 30 or 40 years ago. *Click on the image to see/hear more*
ZAINAB: Picturing my dad, I know how difficult it was to come here in the 60s. There was a lot of discrimination, a lot of unfair policies. *Click on the image to see/hear more*