Londoni Memoirs, a new photography and audio-visual exhibition by Seema Khalique, will open at Four Corners, Bethnal Green, this September. A collection of portraits, curated ephemera, artifacts, heirlooms and video-interviews of 12 Bangladeshi migrants from 1950s- 70s, documenting their exodus from genocide during the 1971 liberation war and watching their motherland’s independence from afar while making UK their home.

“This exhibition is personal journey into my family history inspired by the lack of memory of my late father’s early life in the UK and reflects the experience of a whole generation and community where once again we’re asked who we are and where we come from?”  Seema Khalique, Artist and Curator

Seema Khalique is a photography and moving-image artist, curator and producer whose practice explores memory, identity and personal history through documentary and portraiture. She studied BA Media Culture and Communications at the University of Greenwich and has worked across television and film, as well as teaching Media, Film and Photography. Knock The Door Down: Londoni Memoirs Aug 26 Her photographic series Ma was selected for The London Open 2022 and exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery. Her work has also been published in The London Open 2022, Photomonitor and From Sylhet to Spitalfields, as well as the zines Ma and Lost in the Soot. Khalique curated About Then, a group exhibition for the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in London, which also featured her work Lost in the Soot. Her socially engaged practice centres marginalised communities, using creative practice to give voice to their stories and develop new forms of community engagement. Her recent commission by Open Eye Gallery, Our Freedom: Then and Now, launched at the Southbank Centre before touring 18 venues. Khalique is also curator of Migration Quest, an immersive and interactive art exhibition at the Kobi Nazrul Centre, Brick Lane, in August 2026. She is a Photoworks Photography Champion for Medway and a Board Member at Four Corners.