Old Market Diaries

A community archive for Old Market, Bristol. Old Market Diaries is a participatory project delivered by IC Visual Lab. Through a series of open workshops we used digital storytelling tools with local residents to record the life of the community as it is now but also as it changes in the future. Old Market was selected for this project as it's one of Bristol's fastest growing communities with residents originating from over forty different countries. Yet, Old Market, with its changing worlds and its connected histories, hasn't ever had its stories told. Via the interventions of the IC Visual Lab collective of photographers and local participants, Old Market Diaries has been working as a catalyst to construct an archive of personal and local histories that enables and enhances greater community cohesion, both within the local community itself but also within greater Bristol as a whole.