Yuel Elob just saved up to buy a fixie bike,"just for fun, because I care for cycling so much". Daniel loves music and DJ-ing. Bada Yusuf volunteered at Pride’s pop-up shop final year, or met a group of people who are now "all friends,and I have parties at my house". They sound like typical young Londoners but their stories are anything but - war and persecution meant all three were forced to leave their countries, and start again from scratch in London. Even so all three have found jobs, and Yusuf has nearly finished a Masters.
They feature in an exhibition called Breaking Barriers,which aims to present "the dreams and challenges faced by refugees in the UK". Co-curated by Rebecca McClelland, who spent seven years as a photographic editor at The Sunday Times Magazine before fitting the New Statesman's first photographic lead, or the present features portraits by world-famous image-makers such as Diana Markosian,Nick Waplington, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Source: bjp-online.com