Ricochet is an artist-led project designed to increase opportunities in Edinburgh using photography, video and digital techniques. The ambitious programme of tasters, projects and traineeships started in 2005 and focused on working with people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

In 2006 Ricochet developed in parallel with the Stills’ exhibition Cinémathèque de Tanger / Among the Moderns and worked around the practice of Lead Artist Leena Nammari. Drawing upon and complementing these themes, Stills artists worked with people from ethnic minority backgrounds exploring the subjects of home, belonging and the emotional realities of migration.

We worked with mums and daughters from Saheliya, asylum seekers and refugees from the refugee centre at St. Georges West run by Cyrenians, Ricochet trainees and individuals from local shops in and around Leith walk and Nicholson Square.

Lead Artist
Leena Nammari led the workshops corresponding to the themes that are inherent in her work, the themes of belonging and home. She is Palestinian, and her work has always focused on the idea of what is home, how it feels to be a foreigner in another land, through the medium of photography, printmaking and film. Because of this intimate and personal approach, she was able to drive forward the theme with inspiration and personal sensitivity to the subject.

Ricochet Co-ordinator - Maria Harper
Riochet trainees - Arpita Shah, Wen Hui Foo, Rose de Larrabeiti
Ricochet groups - Saheliya, Cyrenians, shop keepers from Leith
Walk and Nicholson Square