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Her overarching interest lies in people and their stories, with childhood, youth, place and belonging often explored in the people and places photographed.\n\nShe often photographs children and young people - people in the midst of establishing a sense of self; sometimes being in transformation from one state to another: child to youth to adult. The inner and lived worlds of others are central to her photography with her work seeking to portray the individual and their experience(s).\n\nHer work has been exhibited widely, including at the European Parliament, Street Level Photoworks and at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.\n\nWork has been featured on Firecracker and she was a finalist in the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2017."}},"object":{"id":12790,"status_id":2,"user_id":26893,"cover_block_id":113920,"place_id":148453,"started_at":"2016-01-01 00:00:00","ended_at":null,"is_ongoing":1,"is_unpublished":1,"title":"In This Place","slug":"in-this-place-67009f1c9f","slug_hash":"67009f1c9f","excerpt":"<p>This 2016\/17 series revisits the grown-up children from an earlier work Family (1994). In this updated series Margaret Mitchell looks at how life has turned out in the present day, in a personal yet universally relatable story of family, loss, love & survival within a wider socio-economic context.<\/p>","excerpt_raw":"This 2016\/17 series revisits the grown-up children from an earlier work Family (1994). In this updated series Margaret Mitchell looks at how life has turned out in the present day, in a personal yet universally relatable story of family, loss, love & survival within a wider socio-economic context.","body":"<p>\u201cIn This Place\u201d looks at family and home, connections and place, touching on issues of social and personal inertia.<\/p><p>Over 20 years after her first project, Family (1994), Margaret Mitchell returned to photograph her sister\u2019s three children\u2014Steven, Kellie and Chick\u2014and update the story of where their lives have taken them in adulthood. The resulting work traces the narrative of their present-day lives and that of their own children. In the intervening years, their mother has died, and all the children from the earlier project have moved from one estate poised to undergo urban regeneration to another, where they live in pockets yet to be touched by redevelopment.<\/p><p>\u201cIn This Place\u201d raises questions about choice\u2014do we have choices in life, or are some predetermined or made for us? Where a \u201cplace\u201d can be both mental and physical; a place we put ourselves and where we are put, sometimes by others and sometimes by circumstance? What puts us there, what keeps us there and do we want to be there?<\/p><p>Life feels somewhat static in the housing estates of central Scotland; as the world changes, the lives portrayed here remain relatively still and immobile. Within this social landscape, movement has occurred\u2014but only from one area that scores high in government statistics on deprivation to another. A simple bus ride across town.<\/p><p>This is a personal yet universally relatable story of family, loss, love & survival set within a wider socio-economic context. Against a backdrop of parental loss and limited opportunities, there is a glue that binds the original three children together now as adults\u2014living in similar flats, in the same area\u2014intertwined and interdependent as they were as children in 1994. The family renews; it endures.<\/p>","body_raw":"\u201cIn This Place\u201d looks at family and home, connections and place, touching on issues of social and personal inertia.\n\nOver 20 years after her first project, Family (1994), Margaret Mitchell returned to photograph her sister\u2019s three children\u2014Steven, Kellie and Chick\u2014and update the story of where their lives have taken them in adulthood. The resulting work traces the narrative of their present-day lives and that of their own children. In the intervening years, their mother has died, and all the children from the earlier project have moved from one estate poised to undergo urban regeneration to another, where they live in pockets yet to be touched by redevelopment.\n\n\u201cIn This Place\u201d raises questions about choice\u2014do we have choices in life, or are some predetermined or made for us? Where a \u201cplace\u201d can be both mental and physical; a place we put ourselves and where we are put, sometimes by others and sometimes by circumstance? What puts us there, what keeps us there and do we want to be there?\n\nLife feels somewhat static in the housing estates of central Scotland; as the world changes, the lives portrayed here remain relatively still and immobile. Within this social landscape, movement has occurred\u2014but only from one area that scores high in government statistics on deprivation to another. A simple bus ride across town.\n\nThis is a personal yet universally relatable story of family, loss, love & survival set within a wider socio-economic context. Against a backdrop of parental loss and limited opportunities, there is a glue that binds the original three children together now as adults\u2014living in similar flats, in the same area\u2014intertwined and interdependent as they were as children in 1994. The family renews; it endures.","published_at":"2017-05-31 17:00:05","is_legacy":null,"legacy_id":null,"position":1,"created_at":"2017-05-15 10:04:46","updated_at":"2017-07-02 15:30:38","user_attributes":{"id":26893,"firstname":"Margaret","lastname":"Mitchell","username":"margaretmitchell","name":"Margaret Mitchell","profile":{"avatar":"\/users\/26893\/avatars\/oq1hzu1173a3e763.jpg","cover_image":null,"nationality":"Scottish","currently_in":{"id":59414,"city":"Glasgow","region":"Scotland","country":"United Kingdom","country_code":"GB","continent":"Europe","lat":"55.86515","lon":"-4.25763","verified":1,"created_at":"-0001-11-30 00:00:00","updated_at":"2015-11-27 21:51:01","name":"Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom"},"bio":"Margaret Mitchell is a photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her overarching interest lies in people and their stories, with childhood, youth, place and belonging often explored in the people and places photographed.\n\nShe often photographs children and young people - people in the midst of establishing a sense of self; sometimes being in transformation from one state to another: child to youth to adult. The inner and lived worlds of others are central to her photography with her work seeking to portray the individual and their experience(s).\n\nHer work has been exhibited widely, including at the European Parliament, Street Level Photoworks and at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.\n\nWork has been featured on Firecracker and she was a finalist in the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2017."}},"meta":{"is_liked":false,"like_count":0},"activity_attributes":{"place":"Scotland, United Kingdom","image_filename":"\/users\/26893\/stories\/12790\/oq1jloe3eee26e10.jpg","video_service":null,"video_code":null},"url":"\/margaretmitchell\/story\/in-this-place-67009f1c9f","comments":[],"cover_block_image":{"id":113920,"story_id":12790,"image_id":137846,"video_id":null,"caption":"Steven close by both his and his youngest sister's flats (2017)\n\nSteven is the eldest of the three siblings. 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