Now a city project called The Way I See It is putting digital cameras in the hands of immigrants to capture their stories and to see the city through new eyes.
Recruiting recent immigrants through organizations such as Settlement and Immigration Services Organization, North Hamilton Community Midwives, Columbia International College and Hess Street School, the goal of the photography project is to give a voice to new immigrants to tell their Steeltown stories.
"Rather than all the negatives we always hear of the city, let's now see what other people think," said Arts Hamilton executive director Paul de Courcy.
"Let's allow those people a voice and let them use it."
The project plays on the idea of Photovoice, a global initiative that blends photography and social action by allowing marginalized communities to document issues affecting them.
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