Back to Life - Jamaica Society Leeds
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2019 Eulogy Project commemorating first generation Jamaicans of Leeds who arrived in the 1940s – 60s.
Scores of black and white photos of the pioneering generation were collected for the project – photos taken before their arrival or in their new home city and sent to family in Jamaica.
Adding colour to decades-old black, white and grey photos illuminates their lives as young people; hints at the personalities behind outfit choices, allows us to see Leeds and Jamaica as they were in days gone by.
Colour brings a remembered generation back to life.