'I learned how to use an SLR camera, new computer skills and a lot about other people and cultures.' Mandy, 15

Members of the Brighton-based Refugee and Asylum Seekers’ Project (RASP) explored objects from Brighton Museum's World Art collection and worked with an artist to photograph them.

The photographs were transformed when projected onto participants, who worked in pairs as models and photographers.

The resulting portraits explore creative ways of connecting with objects. They are displayed at the south entrance to the World Stories gallery.

• Asylum seekers arriving in the UK are fingerprinted, security checked, photographed and issued with ID. They must report regularly to the authorities and can be locked up at any time.
   
• People seeking asylum do not qualify for council houses or housing benefit. They may be sent to detention centres or separated from their families.
   
• There is no evidence that asylum seekers are more likely than anyone else to commit criminal offences. They are more likely to be victims of crime.
   
• Asylum seekers aren’t allowed to work until granted refugee status, but receive just over half the weekly amount of income support given to British-born claimants.
   
• In 2011 less than 0.5% of the UK population were asylum seekers and refugees.