While We Wait

While We Wait is an exhibition of a series of portraits focusing on the lives of women who have been forcibly displaced in Jordan and are awaiting resettlement to North America or Europe.

Rayna Carruthers, a photographer from Glasgow, lived in Jordan from 2022-2023. Over the course of that year, she took women’s portraits, heard their stories and learned about the conflicts which had forced them to flee. This exhibition speaks not only to the lives of these women in Jordan but also seeks to raise awareness around the inhumane and discriminatory asylum laws here in the UK and the role that Western countries and the climate crisis are playing in exacerbating forced displacement worldwide.

While We Wait runs from Tuesday 7th January to Saturday 29th March 2025. Exhibition is open during normal business hours. There will be an event in relation to the exhibition with a talk from Rayna on 20th March, 5.30pm to 7pm.