LIVERPOOL DEMENTIA NETWORK GROUPS +

Open Eye Gallery and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in association with Liverpool SURF and other Dementia Network groups across the city region came together to work with photographer Tahdg Devlin over the course of two years to explore a visual narrative of someone living with dementia.

As the group could at first only meet remotely and online with Open Eye Gallery staff and Tadhg, the focus of their initial collaboration aimed to reach out to people across the country who might be facing similar circumstances over this time.

The group reached out to people across the country living with dementia, inviting them to take part in ‘Dementia Eye: A View to Remember’. This was an opportunity for people living with dementia to share photographs of their ‘view’ over the past 12 months whilst we had all been in lockdown. Images sent in were then shared on our Openstories platform, social media and Digital Window Gallery.

One of the main topics which came through the images sent in was around the importance of feeling connected in difficult times.