Secret Green Spaces Photo Walk

Join artist Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora for a free photo walk and reflective workshop discovering Birmingham city centre’s hidden green spaces.

Starting at the Library of Birmingham, this guided walk will explore the city’s underappreciated and ‘secret’ pockets of nature hidden between streets, buildings and public spaces, captured in the height of spring. Through gentle prompts and shared discussion, participants will be invited to slow down, observe closely and consider how photography can reveal overlooked urban environments.

Open to all experience levels, the session offers a chance to connect with the city‘s urban greenery, experiment with photography and reflect on the relationship between nature, place and everyday life in Birmingham. A Living Well Consortium Clinical Therapist will be joining the walk too.

This event is organised to coincide with Ikon’s exhibition What are the Odds? at the Library of Birmingham.

Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora is a multi-disciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice, working with local communities on global issues. She is interested in celebrating everyday people while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place.

Dhaliwal-Boora has recently received the RPS (Royal Photographic Society) Award for Social Impact 2025 in recognition of sustained excellence that highlights or contributes to demonstrable improvement in public awareness of social issues. Previous awards include British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain (2021-2024) and the LensCulture Photo Art Award (2024). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Wembley Stadium, UN Headquarters New York, Peckham24, New Art Exchange Nottingham and Manchester’s People Museum. Her work Birmingham Lockdown Stories (2020) is held in the permanent archive and collection of the Birmingham Museums Trust.

Living Well Consortium is the West Midlands’ leading mental health consortium, which consists of over 30 Third Sector mental health organisations. These consortium members each use their experience and networks to work in a cross-collaborative way, to ensure that those who are looking for ways to access mental health and wellbeing support can do so in an efficient way. These Third Sector members work to relieve the pressure felt by the medical services, by delivering free community-based and community-oriented services that focus on prevention, wellness, recovery, and resilience, in turn building a more sustainable and long-lasting solution.