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Make Yourself at Home Stories from Bradford 13 September to 20 December 2025 Bridging past and present, Make Yourself at Home weaves together newly commissioned photography with rich archival material to present a vibrant portrait of life in Bradford. The exhibition reflects on Bradford’s dynamic cultural landscape and celebrates the enduring communities at its heart. At its centre are five new photography commissions offering a contemporary portrait of the district. Starting with the idea of ‘family,’ each photographer set out to discover markets alive with conversation, homes full of stories, and communities rooted in shared experience. Laura Mate’s series A Fair Trade captures the vibrancy of local markets. Tori Ferenc’s Sěmьja draws on her Polish heritage, visiting Eastern European social clubs still alive with music, laughter, and memory. In From Hope, From Bradford, Anselm Ebulue meets people in chance encounters, photographing them against the district’s diverse and iconic backdrops. Nathan McGill’s Home Grown celebrates green spaces where asylum seekers and refugees plant, grow, and connect. While, Karol Wyszynski’s Under One Roof introduces eight families, and explores how family members share space and shape each other’s lives. Accompanying the newly made photographs is Bradford Family Album, an extensive community-sourced archive of family photographs. Built through months of dedicated community outreach, the archive brings together personal photographs from households, families, and community hubs across the Bradford district. From wide-lapelled 1970s wedding celebrations to garage-smoked Latvian meats, the photographs capture personal milestones, cultural traditions, and everyday moments of connection. This living archive is a collective record of how people have preserved heritage, adapted customs, and shaped new ones in the process of making Bradford their home.