John Perivolaris graduated from the Universities of London (BA Hons) and Cambridge (Ph.D.). He is a documentary and fine art photographer with a background in Hispanic cultural and visual studies. Collaborative in his approach, his work is concerned with migrant identities, memory and the regeneration made possible by the latter. He first began working with refugee communities in 1980, photographing Vietnamese boat people arriving to the United Kingdom, on behalf of the Red Cross. A selection of this work is included in Jordanna Bailkin’s forthcoming Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain (OUP, 2018). More recently, he has documented migration to southern Spain since 2003, work that formed part of a touring exhibition in Spain sponsored by the University of Almería, UNICEF and the Junta of Andalucía. In his capacities as photographer, documentarian, facilitator and artistic collaborator, he has increasingly been working with refugee artists to produce work that presents a more rounded representation of migrant experiences and spaces than that usually provided by mainstream media. This work has taken place in several locations in the United Kingdom and in France, particularly the Parisian banlieue. He has been enabled to undertake such work by being actively engaged in several national and international networks bringing together academic researchers, activists, artists and migrants themselves. Web address: http://thegrid.ai/a-map-of-my-own-making/
