Belfast photography project 'breaking stigma' on trauma for residents

A community in Belfast are breaking the stigma and silence that exists in their area surrounding substance use, trauma, and mental health issues through a photography project.

Áine Brady, the lead worker on the project, said it has already achieved results in its early stages. She said: “It was great to see people coming together to share their stories about life in the Market, what it is like to grow up here, to live here and to raise their families here. The arts based workshops helped them to open up and discuss important local issues. It was powerful to see residents from different generations get involved and share their stories.

"That's when we started getting into the nitty gritty of what's going on in the Market from our perspective, because obviously we're the younger people. Not a lot of people think us young people see a lot of the things that go on in the Market, like the stuff with addition, people don't think we see what's going on.

Molly said: "I lost my mum recently about a year and a half ago, and it was stuff we were talking about in the group. I was interested in getting involved as it's stuff that has happened in my past, and I can share my story with other people and hear their stories about their life, to see how they feel.

"We're trying to take the bad things that happen and trying to cope with it in a way we're actually creating something along the way. That's what we were doing with the photos. "But we're trying to show people we are not the bad people, we're just trying to speak about what actually goes on and don't listen to what you hear to be honest. It's a good place, we love it, I love being from it, and I honestly don't think I'd want to live anywhere else. I've spent my whole life here, made so many friends, so many memories, and my whole family grew up here.

"We want them to see how it's thriving, how we have fun days, how we raise so much money to have these things going on. We really want the positive perspective to come through as it's so hard when the negative has been so prominent for years."

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