East
To West is a Â鶹Éç North documentary looking at the lives of those who
left their lives behind in South Asia to come to the district from
the 1950s to the present day. These are just some of the people featured!
Mohammad
Ishbaq was of school age when he arrived in Bradford.
While at school Mohammad was photographed taking part in school
activities and with his fellow pupils.
He says: "When I went to school, most of the local kids, the white
kids wanted to be friends with me because they'd never seen an Asian
kid as such, so I had a very good impression of this country, that
everybody was nice and it was a good place to be. I never thought
about race at all. I was accepted and I never paid it a second thought.
But in 1961 or 1962 a few more Asians started to arrive from Pakistan
and then I did start to notice thet change in attitude that started
to take place."
Â鶹Éç Bradford and West Yorkshire
National Museum of Photography,
Film and Television,
Bradford
BD1 1NQ
(+44) 01274 841051 bradford@bbc.co.uk westyorkshire@bbc.co.uk
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