"Identity cannot be defined by what the observer notes on the outside... the colour of one's skin. It is a combination of external and internal factors, from one's nurtured environment to the influences of one's peers, but most importantly identity is the essence of being that can only come from within". Dorothy S. Dady

Dorothy Sheryl Dady is my name and I was born in the East End of London of Anglo-Indian parentage. My mother Merle arrived in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1966 with £3.50 in her pocket, two children by her side (having left my elder brother with her parents to travel at a later date with my father) and me on the way. Sadly, my father Stanley never made the journey as he was to die in Bangalore, Southern India, two months prior to my birth on April 05, 1967, an event that has had a profound effect on my life and one that has driven me to where I find myself today. For it is through the infinity of loss that I have been able to hold on to and embrace what the heart and soul of being an Anglo-Indian in these modern times equates too.

I, like many of my generation of Anglo-Indians, have been caught up in the whirl-wind of change of global consumerism and post-modernism. But, I would like to think that wherever we reside within the world we share a primal belief that our proud race deserves its place in history. Therefore my intention was to produce an anthology of photographs that would be accompanied with text to illustrate what has become known as the Diaspora of the Anglo-Indian community and to show the unique relationship that has been sustained between the two great nations both prior to and since the end of Colonial rule and the recognition of Indian Independence on August 15, 1947.

The main juxtaposition of images have been combined to incorporate my passion for both people and photography. My aim was to photograph a wide spectrum Anglo-Indians from around the world, be they rich or poor, dark or fair in order to give them the opportunity to express their innermost feelings on what it means to personally identify to being Anglo-Indian. I hope that now that my journey has has come to an end and Scattered Seeds: The Diaspora of the Anglo-Indians has be brought to fruition it will prove to be a comprehensive and unbiased exploration through history, identity and photography of a dying race of people who deserve to be recognised.