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ReflectingYOU at work — portrait experiences delivered for organisations, institutions, and public spaces.
22 April 2025 - London
ReflectingYOU at Capital City College
ReflectingYOU was invited to participate in a Professional Development Day at Capital City College, focused on Diversity and Inclusion.
PD Days at Capital City College gather staff from across the organisation for a day of shared learning, reflection, and connection. As part of this programme, ReflectingYOU facilitated a participatory collective portrait experience with members of the college's staff community alongside a number of invited guest speakers — including a Māori cultural delegation and British actor and presenter Jassa Ahluwalia.
Sixteen portraits were created across the day, forming a collective chain that brought together participants from a wide range of roles, backgrounds, and experiences. Capital City College is the largest further education institution in London and the third largest in the UK, and that breadth of diversity made the ReflectingYOU process particularly dynamic — individual differences became visible through the portraits, while the collective form reflected a shared sense of belonging within the institution.
Rather than operating as a conventional workshop, ReflectingYOU provided a reflective space closely aligned with the day's focus on diversity, inclusion, and participation. The resulting collective portrait served as both a visual outcome and a moment of shared recognition among the people who make the college what it is.
26 September 2024 - London
ReflectingYOU at Nexus Studios
ReflectingYOU was commissioned by Nexus Studios, the London-based creative studio, to deliver a full-day participatory portrait experience at their London premises.
Twenty-four members of the Nexus Studios team took part, each contributing to a continuous portrait chain that captured the studio's collective identity. Individual differences were made visible through the portraits, while the resulting chain reflected a shared sense of belonging rooted in the people themselves.
Rather than functioning as a conventional team-building activity, ReflectingYOU created a space for genuine encounter — one in which participation was the experience, and the collective portrait its lasting outcome.
“A huge thank you to you and Pietro for coming in last week — it was a fantastic day, and everyone I spoke to really enjoyed participating.”
19 Sep & 10 October 2020 - London
World Mental Health Day
To mark World Mental Health Day 2020, ReflectingYOU partnered with Youmanity and KeolisAmey Docklands to deliver a public engagement activation at Heron Quays DLR station.
Over two separate sessions, travellers and passersby were invited to take part in a collective portrait experience in the middle of one of London's busiest transit environments. A total of 112 portraits were created across both dates — 64 on 19 September and 48 on 10 October — forming a continuous portrait chain that documented the human diversity passing through the station on those days.
The activation demonstrated how ReflectingYOU can operate in open, uncontrolled public spaces, turning chance encounters between strangers into a shared visual record. Participants crossed lines of age, ethnicity, gender, and background, with the portrait chain making those connections tangible and visible.
“ReflectingYOU promises to be an innovative interactive event in which two people become one. A great and simple way to demonstrate that despite our differences, we are made of the same substance, part of the same picture - or portrait! There won’t be any tricks. Just a mirror, a photographer and the concourse at Heron Quays. We are very excited to host such a project on the DLR network.”
Exhibitions & Events
ReflectingYOU in the world — selected exhibitions and participations since 2015.
Jan 2026 - A new visual identity for ReflectingYOU
ReflectingYOU introduces a new visual identity that brings the project’s core ideas into a single, recognisable mark.
The logo is built around three interconnected graphic elements.
The letter R takes on subtle anthropomorphic characteristics, evoking the human presence at the heart of the project — the individuals who participate and make ReflectingYOU possible. A second R is introduced to represent connection: the relationship between people, and the shared space that emerges when individual identities are placed side by side.
Both forms are contained within a square, a reference to the mirror used in the photographic process. The inversion of the two shapes reflects the logic of the mirror itself — an image that is never identical, but always relational. What appears is not duplication, but correspondence.
Colour plays a central role. The logo uses a gradient composed of the full spectrum of light. This choice reflects two fundamental ideas: the presence of diversity as a complete and irreducible whole, and the role of light as the essential material of photography. By breaking light down into its constituent colours, the logo recalls the basic principles of optics and photographic practice.
Together, these elements form a visual language that mirrors ReflectingYOU’s intent:
to represent individuality within a collective, and to make visible the human connections that already exist.
March 2020
We are delighted and proud to announce our partnership with Youmanity, a registered charity founded in London, designed to celebrate multiculturalism, support social integration and promote human rights.
“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consumed hatred. It can only be conquered by recognising and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.
Cultural diversity is at the heart of Youmanity. We believe that the differences between people and communities should be celebrated as unifying factors as opposed to devisive boundaries. People should be encouraged to keep their own language as well as being encouraged to speak the universal language of respect and consideration for others' customs and traditions.”
7 Feb > 10 June 2020 - London
@The Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital
Loudest Whispers is a London’s art exhibition for the LGBT community and is part of Camden LGBT Forum‘s programme of events for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month UK.
The exhibition will feature work by a mix of professionally trained and self-taught LGBT artists - the eleventh edition of Loudest Whispers has attracted a record breaking number of over 50 artists.
Don’t miss A Midwinter Night’s Dream, on the 7th February, the official launch of Camden & Islington LGBT History Month organised by forum+ and the opening of the eleventh edition of Loudest Whispers curated by The Arts Project.
Keep the date free for an evening inspired by poetry, prose and plays, and join us at The Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London NW1 0PE.
Monday > Friday : 9am > 5pm
29 Oct > 3 November 2019 - London
ReflectingYOU has been selected to be part of “Looking The Other Way 2”.
Following the 2018 success of Looking the Other Way, an exhibition by London Gay Photographers Network as part of East London Photomonth, the group presents an exciting new collection of work at Espacio Gallery > 159 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG London.
Building on the eclectic mix of styles and subjects in the 2018 show, this year’s exhibition, Looking the Other Way 2, once again celebrates diversity both in front of and behind the camera.
The Gay Photographers Network has provided a collaborative environment for its members to present, discuss and share photography for over 10 years with regular forums and exhibitions in central London and wider access through social media.
Tuesday > Saturday : 1pm > 7pm - Sunday : 1pm > 5pm
11 > 23 October 2019 - London
ReflectingYOU has been selected to be part of “Synergic” - an exhibition which is about achieving more by working together.
Art Number 23 and Ovalo Galeria de Arte are joining forces to create a cultural link between two continents - UK-based and Latin American galleries - bring artists together and embrace our similarities and differences.
Please, join us at The Old Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements rd, Block F, SE16 4DG, London on the 11th October 2019!
7 > 28 May 2015 - Bologna
ReflectingYOU presented its first public exhibition at Senape Vivaio Urbano, an urban nursery and concept store in the historical centre of Bologna.
Twenty-five portraits were exhibited across the space, creating a collective visual narrative set against the textures and forms of the venue itself. The combination of portraiture and living environment gave the exhibition an organic quality — one that underscored the relationship between human presence and the natural world.
The exhibition also functioned as a live participatory experience. A photographic studio was set up within the space, inviting visitors to take part in the process directly. Sixteen new portraits were created during the run of the exhibition, expanding the collective portrait with each new participant.
Bring ReflectingYOU to your organisation, community, or event.
Let’s create a collective portrait that celebrates the human beings who make your environment and culture what they are.