Commissioned by Creative Black Country as part of our Creative Connections commissions, Yam Cams encouraged ordinary people across the region to take a closer look at their local environment and view it with a fresh eye.

Creative Black Country has been working with communities across the region to share creativity, fun and positivity via its Creative Connection Commissions. From small ideas big, inventive projects grew including poetry group Connect Dudley and Instagram photography project Yam Cams who are both featured in this short film.

Commissioned by Creative Black Country as part of our Creative Connections commissions, Yam Cams encouraged ordinary people across the region to take a closer look at their local environment and view it with a fresh eye. The results of the project are now recorded in a new book called ‘Yam Cams: Picturing the Black Country’.