Virtual Exhibition: Make Yourself at Home

Explore our exhibition Make Yourself from Home: Stories from Bradford in this interactive 3D virtual tour.

This exhibition, presented as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, weaves together newly commissioned photography and rich archival material to present a vibrant portrait of life in Bradford.

At its centre are five new commissions offering a contemporary portrait of the district by photographers Anselm Ebulue, Tori Ferenc, Laura Mate, Nathan McGill and Karol Wyszynski. 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.

Accompanying the newly made photographs is Bradford Family Album, a community-sourced archive of family photographs built through months of dedicated community outreach.

These two strands come together to reveal how personal histories inform our present and shape our sense of belonging. Make Yourself at Home is a celebration of lives and legacies, it stands as a testament to the power of Bradford’s people to shape identity, preserve culture, and create a home.

The exhibition is the culmination of 18 months of collaboration, mentorship, research, and community engagement by New Focus: Bradford Young Curators. Working in close partnership with the team at Impressions, the young curators have crafted an exhibition that reconciles personal experience with collective memory and celebrates identity, belonging, and what it means to call a place home.

Curated and produced by Impressions Gallery and New Focus: Bradford Young Curators. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Image top © Faye Hatton courtesy Impressions Gallery.