Arts & artists

If you’ve been down to Roman Road’s café Quarantacinque recently, you may have noticed a photography display stuck humbly to

‘I wanted to meet people and hear about their experiences. Everyone’s got a story to tell, especially during this strange period, so I wanted to capture those stories visually.’

‘I’m going to be wherever I want to be and achieve whatever I need to achieve to feel fulfilled. Freeing myself of that need to belong has opened my horizons to so much more, because I just enjoy what is good and makes me happy,’ she says.

Local resident José’s photography project ‘Faces of West Ham’ records the faces, emotions and passion of The Hammers.

‘The drone allows you to see areas from a very unusual perspective and it has the power to completely transform familiar places. I look for the geometry within infrastructure sometimes and the pathways in the park provided that.’

You would be forgiven for thinking Hannah Brown’s natural landscape paintings – with their quiet lakes and light-dappled foliage – are placed somewhere in the British countryside.

Rohan is eleven years old and plays the clarinet. ‘I like that there’s different age groups, and we all play together, and hang out afterwards. I miss my friends, and I can’t wait to see them in real life when all this is over. But I’m glad we haven’t stopped our lessons, and we’re still seeing each other.’