About Sheila Chakravarti
Sheila Chakravarti is a socially engaged photographer, long time educator, and activist. Her current work centres around her own experiences - and that of other people of colour - of racism in Northern Ireland.
Chakravarti uses photography as a tool to promote change in her community. By exploring the universal experiences of people who have come to settle here, Sheila hopes to encourage public engagement and awareness of the many complex issues involved.
“The British took over India when it was one of the richest countries in the world. And they left it one of the poorest. And that to me is is what colonialism is about. I think we see it reflected in our modern times. In that since the British ruling classes of no, you know, colon-, attack us taxpayers and loot us in much the same way the money goes through to Tory donors and what have you. I think this is something that they’ve learned. And it’s I also think the roots of the sort of racism that we experience are also based in arise from a colonial past.”
In Conversation with Sheila Chakravarti
Sheila’s photo of her grandfather . She writes,
“His name was (still is I suppose!) Dinesh Chandra Chakraborty. My father changed the spelling to Chakravarti when he came to Cambridge”.
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