Vanley Burke has been living and working in Birmingham since 1965. He started photographing the community around him in 1967 and has continued to the present day. He has also undertaken two self-financed visits to record people and events in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Islamic Relief was founded in 1984 at a time of terrible famine in Ethiopia and the Sudan, it is now an international relief and development organisation with a multi-million pound programme sponsoring projects in over 22 countries.