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\"Maolin<\/a>

Maolin Liao and Lin Sun. They came to Scotland from Langzhong, Sichuan in China to study. I photographed them in their flat in Aberdeen.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In my ongoing long-term project The Neighbours<\/strong> I am using photography to create a portrait of contemporary and multicultural society in Scotland.<\/p>\n

In today’s well connected world anyone regardless the nationality, cultural or religious background can be our neighbour. Historical and modern factors had big influence on how our societies look today. It is important to have a record of the current processes and also to remember about the past events, which shaped our world. Considering current political climate, when benefits of the diverse society are being slowly disregarded I want to remind ourselves about the significance of the cultural mosaic we are living in.<\/p>\n

Reasons for migrations are different and vary from political ones, economical to those driven by a curiosity. My goal is to show this variety by meeting and photographing people, who moved from their countries of birth and settled down in Scotland. By photographing and interviewing my sitters in their private environment I am trying to show a part of their life and to encourage the viewers to draw their own conclusions.<\/p>\n

We can’t forget about Scotland’s historical and contemporary links with Asian, African and Commonwealth countries-\u00a0which are often a direct result of the colonial past of the British Empire.<\/p>\n

To highlight that migration, and multicultural societies are not a new occurrence I am also portraying individuals and families, whose ancestors came to Scotland many years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polish soldiers who stayed here after the Second World War or Jewish families, which settled down in Scotland in nineteenth century could be used as a good example. My research proves that these examples\u00a0are just a part of a much wider and interesting multicultural story of this Northern European nation.<\/p>\n

The last ten years brought many changes to the Scottish society; many people from new EU countries settled down here what resulted in Scotland being even more diverse and multicultural. These people and their stories are also integral part of my project.<\/p>\n

We are all descendants of migrants or migrants ourselves and histories of all countries, even the most distant are bounded together by people who were, are and will be constantly on the move around the world.<\/p>\n

My main ambition is to continue in this project in the different parts of United Kingdom to create a body of work, which would be considered not only as a photographic work of art but perhaps a useful sociological document for generations to come.<\/p>\n

The Neighbours in today’s well connected world anyone regardless the nationality, cultural or religious background can be our neighbour.\u00a0Please feel free to contact me if you would like to share your own story, participate in the project or just say hello.<\/p>\n

Blazej Marczak
www.bmarczak.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mohammed

Mohammed from Yobe State in Northern Nigeria, posing in his flat in Aberdeen, where he is living and doing a PhD in chemistry. While talking about Scotland, his experiences of living in Malaya, politics and religion he quote this sentence from Quran: “(Show) kindness unto parents, and unto near kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and unto the neighbour who is of kin (unto you) and the neighbour who is not of kin (\u2026)”<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Sikh

Sikh communities in Scotland have a long history, which is going back to the 19th century when first Sikh families arrived here from India. Scottish Sikhs have their own tartan and can be seen wearing kilts made it from this material on special occasions. This portrait shows a family, which represent a more recent arrival of Sikh community members to Scotland. Gurinder and his wife Harpreet came to Scotland from New Delhi where their son Brahmjot was born as well. Their youngest baby, daughter Siaana was born in Edinburgh and I was also lucky to met Gurinder\u2019s mother Balbir who comes to Scotland every few months to visit and help her son and his wife with raising the family. All of them are very attached to their religion which playing an important role in holding a community together but this doesn\u2019t stop them from adapting some local customs like a Christmas tree for example. We were chatting over a Indian chai and Bombay mix and by the end of the day I was showed around Sikh temple in Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Lita,Laura

Lita,Laura and Jide. Jide is from Nigeria and he met Lita, his partner and future wife in Edinburgh. Their daughter Laura was born just two weeks before I took this portrait. Lita comes from one of the island of Cape Verde located off the west coast of Africa and speaks Portuguese and English. Jide brought a \u201cTalking Drum\u201d to Scotland with him. This instrument, which you can see on the left seating on the speaker, was used to send detailed messages between villages in some regions of West Africa many years ago and now it becomes a part of popular music in this region of the world.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dr

Dr Kazimierz Durkacz, from Poland, was born in 1919 in Drohobycz (today\u2019s Ukraine). Shortly before WW II he joined the Polish Army Forces while continuing his medical studies. After Hitler\u2019s attack of Poland, followed shortly by Stalin, his military unit was moved to Hungary. He and other soldiers were interned in a transit camp. The Hungarian government was under pressure from Germany and soon became anti-Polish but the people remained supportive. Kazimierz said that they helped him to escape from the camp and gave him money to hire a driver, which took him and his fellow soldiers to the border with Yugoslavia from where he travelled by train to France to join the exiled Polish Army. After few weeks in the military camp he was transferred to England and later to Scotland where he was protecting the coast as the German invasion was expected here. In 1941 he joined Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh. Now he is retired dentist and living in Scotland. One day when I was helping him with shopping, a Scottish lady (born to Ukrainian father) recognised him and said: \u201cI remember this gentleman; he was the best dentist in Edinburgh\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Tom

Tom Breheny in his home in Edinburgh. “My great-great-grandfather, Hersz Mordchajeicz-Einbaum, was born in Lodz in 1820. My Polish \/Jewish grandparents Isaac and Sarah were also born in Lodz. They left Poland round about 1904 and settled near Liverpool in England. When the 2nd World War broke out my Jewish relatives who had remained in Poland were murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. I was born in Manchester in 1949 but I have lived in Edinburgh whole my adult life and now consider myself more Scottish than English. My Lancashire accent disappeared many years ago. My grandparents are Polish, Irish and Welsh and my wife and children are Scots. My loyalty will always be to Scotland. This is where my heart is. I like the people and the country.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Uliana

Uliana from Sankt-Petersburg in Russia, her husband Adam from Bialystok in Poland and their kids Arsen and Lija. I photographed them in Aberdeen where they are living and working for about 6 years now. Adam is a lifeguard and Uliana is decorating private houses and offices across Aberdeenshire with a custom murals. They all speaking fluent Russian and Polish at home and English at work and school. It is worth of mentioning that Uliana had a Jewish grandfather and Adam ancestors were from Roma community.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Magda,Nicola

Magda, Nicola and Cat. Magda is from Poland and she is raising her daughter Nicola in Edinburgh. Nicola was born in Scotland but her father moved back to Poland.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Blazej

Blazej is a Dj from Poland. He is living and working in Edinburgh for last few years. I photographed him in his rented room, full of records and smoke. He came to Scotland after Poland joined the EU.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Polish

Polish student who came to Scotland to work and study after Poland’s accession to EU. I photographed her in flat in Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Couple

Couple Liina and Jakub. Liina is from Finland and Jakub from Poland. I photographed them in Edinburgh where they are working and living.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\""I\u2019m

“I\u2019m an illustrator born and raised in Aberdeenshire. My Dad\u2019s family are from the Isle of Arran on the West Coat of Scotland where my Grandfather was the head gardener at Brodick Castle Gardens. Much of the botanical inspiration of my illustration work has roots in the long summers I spent playing in those gardens. My Mum was born in British Guiana, South America to Chinese parents and emigrated to Britain when she was 6. “<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Andrea

Andrea – Designer from Colombia photographed in her flat in Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Ailie

Ailie was born in Edinburgh and is currently finishing her final year of study for microbiology degree. Science and Biology are her main interest but in a free time she loves to read a comics and to play on her X-Box. Her Mum is Glaswegian and Dad is English so I asked her if she feels British or Scottish? She answered: \u201d First Scottish then British \u201d but actually let Ailie speak by herself “I\u2019m a local from Edinburgh, and I get a bit passionate about my city – although I can\u2019t wait to leave when I\u2019ve finished my undergraduate degree. I am a bit of a big kid; I get very attached to my games, my cartoons, and my Transformers toys! The walls aren\u2019t as plastered with posters as they used to be, I don\u2019t really fancy having a \u201cstudent-y\u201d student flat if you know what I mean. Science fiction is definitely my thing, especially retro-futuristic titles like Fallout or Bioshock, or ridiculous films like The Fifth Element because things like that often have a dark, tongue-in-cheek sort of humour; I can\u2019t abide by anything too serious, especially if there are laser guns involved. I\u2019ve always ticked \u201cScottish\u201d on forms because that\u2019s what I always thought of myself as being, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve always been told I was. In fact, no one outside of the UK has ever called me \u201cBritish\u201d, and as a kid I got a distinct non-British feeling. All the television channels were planned to the English school dates, I didn\u2019t recognise any of the British landmarks (I didn\u2019t see London until I was seventeen), and no one \u201cBritish\u201d talked like me. However my father is English, and in primary school I got a bit of nastiness for it from other kids, though that usually subsided when I explained that my father is from Yorkshire which is far enough from London for most people to let me off the hook! Still, for all the anti-Englishness I was exposed to, my first long-term relationship was with a Londoner. But I have the accent, so I\u2019m the one ordering at the bar to avoid any cheeky remarks from the barman\u2026”<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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