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Director of Digital at
@ArtReview_
, En Liang Khong is a former BBC Young Composer of the Year. He writes regularly on art, human rights and politics. Here's a link to his
@FT
cover story on viral culture and the Hong Kong protests
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We are sad to learn that after 95 extraordinary years, Elliott Erwitt has passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family.
His images will continue to captivate and inspire for generations to come.
© Elliott Erwitt, New York City, Third Avenue El., 1954
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Today is the anniversary of the death in 2013 of Tish Murtha and tomorrow would have been her birthday.
Murtha's remarkable works documenting social deprivation continue to resonate to this day.
📸: Tish Murtha
Elswick Kids, 1978
© Ella Murtha, All rights reserved.
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📣 Photographers! Here’s a thread of grants, funding, bursaries & opportunities - we’ll keep adding to the list (but please feel free to update and share):
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"Bandele Ajetunmobi was one of Britain’s first black photographers – yet if his niece had not rescued his negatives after he died in 1994, we would have no evidence of his breathtaking talent."
#TPGHighlights
📷: © "Tex” Ajetunmobi /
@AutographABP
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"There is such dignity in these pictures of working class life. I was there, except in the Midlands, and I recognise my own experience in these scenes." - a visitor comment on Tish Murtha's Works 1976-1991.
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'Tish Murtha produced a body of work so powerful that in 1981 it was cited in the House of Commons as evidence of the raw deal offered to young people living in the north-east of England',
@financialtimes
, Snapshot: ‘Tish Murtha: Works 1976-1991’.
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#OnThisDay
14 January 1971, we first opened our doors, and 5 decades later we’re delighted to celebrate our 50th birthday!
#TPG50
🎂
📷 Sue Davies outside No. 8 Great Newport St. Photo: © Mayotte Magnus, 1977
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"Vishniac's photographs of the streets of Berlin appear as if shot through Fritz Lang's camera, creating a ubiquitous feeling of ill-defined unease." – Anna Dannemann
We're entering the final weeks of our Roman Vishniac Rediscovered show.
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“I was up all night drinking vodka. When I saw this view in the morning, all I had to do was press the button.”
Final weeks of Pentti Sammallahti’s When Winter Reigns. Available until 2 Feb in our Print Sales Gallery.
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"Wonderful stuff. I recognise this world from my own youth. A camera was a godsend to a creative working class teenager!" - a visitor comment on Tish Murtha's Works 1976-1991, showing until 14 October.
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In her interview to art college, Tish Murtha said she wanted to take photographs of "policeman kicking kids".
She was interested in photographing the reality of what was going on around her, not a media version of it.
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Retweet if you knew what The Red Room in Strangers Things was.
(Please, we're feeling very old right now)
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"It must never be forgotten that there are barbaric & reactionary forces in our society, who while having no intrinsic appeal to youth themselves, will not be slow to make political capital from an embittered youth."
Our Tish Murtha show runs until 14 Oct:
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To all the mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, and motherly figures, Happy Mother's Day to everyone celebrating today 💐
© Elliott Erwitt
New York City (Mother and baby), 1953
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Who are your favourite female photographers and do they have a Wikipedia page? Join us on Sunday for an Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, led by
@HemeraPhoto
, where we'll be creating & improving the Wikipedia pages of women in photography.
Free, register here:
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Upcoming Talk: On Susan Sontag
As texts like On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and Notes on Camp, continue to shape understandings of art, sexuality, conflict and loss, we'll be delving into Sontag's work with
@BenjaminFMoser
& Emily LaBarge.
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'She chose a career in photography with the stated aim of focusing her lens precisely on those people and places to which society had turned a blind eye, of bringing to public view the very circumstances that Murtha herself had grown up in',
@tankmagazine
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We’re excited to announce that Shoair Mavlian has been appointed the new Director of The Photographers’ Gallery!
Currently Director of Photoworks Shoair will join the team in Jan 2023, following Brett Rogers’ departure at the end of this year
Read more:
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The winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 is Susan Meiselas.
#DBPFP19
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We’re so sad to announce the death of our beloved & extraordinary founder, Sue Davies, aged 87, on Sat 18 Apr 2020. Sue’s vision, determination & passionate belief in photography are a constant source of inspiration.
Thank you Sue,
@TPGallery
owes you everything 🖤
#RIPSueDavies
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Very sorry to hear of the death of Chris Killip, one of this country’s most outstanding photographers. We are proud to have first shown Chris’ work in 1982 and again in 2013 when he was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
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Congratulations to Luke Willis Thompson who has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
#DBPFP18
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📷 Entries are now open for TPG New Talent. 📷
Continuing with our commitment to supporting new talent, this exhibition and mentoring programme invites applications from emerging UK based photographers and artists of any age.
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We’re thrilled that today
@MayorofLondon
launched
#BehindEveryGreatCity
, part of the campaign to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage and to continue to push for gender equality in the capital. Here’s a pic of Sophia Duleep Singh selling copies of “The Suffragette”.
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The winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 is Mohamed Bourouissa. 🎖
#DBPFP20
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"She wanted to create a space where photographers felt at home, surrounded by photographs"
A really lovely obituary for our founder Sue Davies (14 Apr 1933 – 18 Apr 2020) by Amanda Hopkinson for the
@guardian
.
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Who would you like to see added to this list of women photographers?
This is an evolving directory started by TPG Director Brett Rogers, of visionaries, many of whom have exhibited here and have shown us different, brave and inspiring ways of being a woman.
#IWD2018
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We're saddened to hear of the death of photographer, Dorothy Bohm (1924 - 2023).
Dorothy was not only a talented photographer and leading figure in the post-war British photography scene, she also played a central role in the founding of The Photographers' Gallery in 1971.
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing this weekend of Jean Mohr aged 93. As well as his collaborations with John Berger, Mohr was committed to the contribution documentary photography can make in global humanitarian efforts. He will be missed.
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"I want to make life as colorful as these Polaroids", visitor response to 'Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids'.
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Welcome to the world of Moriyama!
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective - the first UK retrospective of works by the acclaimed Japanese photographer is now open! Book now!
Exhibition supported by
@Bagrifoundation
,
@GBSasakawa
@DaiwaFoundation
@JPFLondon
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"The labour movement must now face up to a heavy and urgent responsibility as young people turn their minds to a way out of their present impasse" – Tish Murtha, 1980
Murtha's Works 1976-1991 runs until 14 Oct.
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Recorded to mark 25 years since Derek Jarman's death, Rupert Everett reads Jarman's vivid memoir of his life and the garden he made in Dungeness in the wake of his HIV diagnosis.
A poignant weekend listen!
#TPGHighlights
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To coincide with our Bert Hardy exhibition, the Print Sales Gallery, is offering lifetime silver gelatin and vintage prints from Bert Hardy, most of which are currently on display!
For print enquiries, contact printsales
@tpg
.org.uk
📷️ Liverpool Hostel, 1942.
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Photographer Catherine Hyland is taking over our Instagram this weekend, sharing pictures taken in the Caribbean, Mongolia and China.
Follow along at:
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All of the photographers here have given their permissions to share. We’re highlighting various photography from recent
#blacklivesmatter
protests. 🖤
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‘My pictures are not about the city but from the city. I’ve always seen it as a stage and I’ve always seen the people in the streets as being actors, not acting out a particular play or story, but somehow being the story itself…'
– Dave Heath
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"By hiding the identity of their subjects...they reveal and exaggerate the sickly, sinister nature of the 1950s American Dream...these grimacing figures distort and subvert the smugness of the era."
Aaron Schuman for
@MagnumPhotos
is our Saturday read.
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The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is honouring the work of the influential British photographer Chris Killip as “Chris Killip arrives in Eschborn, Germany.
The exhibition is on display until 19 May
Find out more about the exhibition programme on their website.
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Coming soon - a new digital archive!
We'll soon be launching a free online resource to discover the rich and varied past of the Gallery, stay tuned for more info
📷️
Installation image of The Black House: Colin Jones exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1977
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FINAL WEEKEND of Dave Heath: Dialogues with Solitudes.
Find out why you can't afford to miss this 'little-known master of the photo medium' here:
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Thank you to female photographers everywhere - your viewpoint matters.
@TPGallery
feminist since 1971
#IWD2017
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Seen in Soho?
We’re loving this test panel for our upcoming exhibition on
#Soho
, which we just put up today. This gorgeous image is by photographer John Goldblatt, from his series, The Undressing Room, 1968 & hasn’t been seen since first published.
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Happy 85th birthday to Daido Moriyama! 🎂
Moriyama was born on this day in 1938, in Ikeda City, Osaka, Japan as Hiromichi Moriyama, eventually becoming one of the world’s most innovative and influential street photographers.
Image: © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation
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COMING SOON💫
Sabine Weiss: Reflections
27 Jan – 19 Mar
Reflections celebrates the life & work of Swiss-French photographer, Sabine Weiss (1924-2021). Weiss, who sadly passed away last year, was a key figure in France’s post-war photographic landscape.
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“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
– Susan Meiselas
#DBPFP19
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We are pleased to announce The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 shortlist including:
Mohamed Bourouissa, Anton Kusters, Mark Neville & Clare Strand.
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"Society has withdrawn its contract from these young people, can they now be expected to live by its rules?"
On 24 Sep, exhibition co-curators Val Williams & Gordon MacDonald, & TPGs Karen McQuaid, will give a talk on the remarkable work of Tish Murtha.
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"Polaroids certainly have a quality like no other medium - ethereal and yet so rooted to a specific point in time", visitor response to our current show Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids.
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Its the opening weekend of The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018.
We're open all weekend and free to all before midday.
Today 10.00 - 18.00
Tomorrow 11.00 - 18.00
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David Bailey CBE: ‘Is photography art? Of course it’s fucking art’
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It's World Photography Day!
Take a look back through the
different histories and perspectives from the people that have worked and shown at TPG alongside key moments and artefacts from our archive
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"Incisive, humane and enchanting for all its bleakness. Coming from the North, the images are familiar but reminiscent of the 1950s I grew up in. Elswick of the 1990s is an indictment of our society." - a visitor comment on Tish Murtha's Works 1976-1991.
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Happy birthday to TPG! 🌟
Today is the 52nd anniversary of the opening of The Photographers' Gallery! We opened our doors for the very first time on 14 January 1971, with The Concerned Photographer being the first exhibition held at the gallery.
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We are saddened to hear of the death of photographer, William Klein, who passed away on Saturday 10 September, aged 96.
He was an esteemed photographer, filmmaker and friend of The Photographers’ Gallery.
We send our condolences to William Klein’s family at this sad time.
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@MagnumPhotos
continues its 75th-anniversary celebrations with a new Square Print Sales! The sale presents 120+ signed/estate-stamped 6x6 prints for just £100/€120/$100 + tax.
Full collection of prints are on display now and the sale opens 17 Oct, 1pm!
© John Hinde Collection
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In just under an hour, we’ll be joined by photojournalist and conservationist
@laurelchor
, and editor
@en_khong
in a special online artist talk. Book now:
📷: © Laurel Chor
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"Instantly makes me want to go on an epic road trip", visitor response to our current show Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids
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What better way to spend your Sunday than by seeing our current exhibitions, Tish Murtha: Works 1976-1991 and Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive, before they close at the end of today?
We're open until 6pm and looking forward to welcoming you.
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"A quietly powerful testament to one of British photography’s defiant free spirits."
Our previous exhibition, Tish Murtha: Works 1976-1991, makes the
@guardian
's top 10 photography shows of the year.
#TPGViewpoints
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Wishing you all a Happy New Year!
We’re back on 11 Jan 2022.
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We hope you're having a lovely start to your Bank Holiday weekend!
The clocks will "spring forward" this weekend, marking the start of British Summer Time (BST).
📷️ Sabine Weiss, Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1962
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"There is often a problem with documenting the working class that feels voyeuristic and exploitative.
Tish Murtha's work never feels like that."
- TPG Visitor
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We are closed until further notice to help protect everyone from risk of infection. Meantime we're busy on our digital channels to help make staying in a little easier. Stay connected for inspiration, solidarity and updates.
📷: © Sabine Weiss, Paris, 1957
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We are delighted to announce we will be re-opening to the public on Tues 14 Jul 2020 with an extended run of the
#DBPFP20
and
#JanSvoboda
exhibitions.⭐️
We look forward to welcoming you back. 😀
📸© Kate Elliott
👉
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In praise of Mothers everywhere. Here's a photograph from Elinor Carucci's series 'Mother' (Prestel, 2013). Work from this project was featured in our 2013 show 'Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity'.
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"This was a true THING, a singular object of its own, not a copy, not a print, not multipliable, not repeatable. You couldn’t help feeling that you had stolen this image-object from the world." Don't miss 'Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids', now in its final weeks.
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Only 3 days to go until our Chris Killip, retrospective exhibition opens! Advance booking is open so get your tickets online now (at a discount!)
In the meantime, check out the latest piece in The Guardian on one of Killip's featured images in the show!
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Our current Roger Mayne show is the first major exhibition since 1999 to show the iconic work of British photographer (1929-2014).
#dontmiss
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An ambitious survey of architecture & town planning took place in 1960s Britain within the Architectural Review - called The Manplan project.
A Brief Revolution is our third exhibition, sharing the photographic works from this project, opening 3 March!
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Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids is now open + don't forget we're open 7 days a week and free before midday →
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Some of Jan Svoboda’s finest works come from a place of isolation.
His tables series use one seemingly ordinary domestic object to explore all manners of tonality, form and abstraction.
#JanSvoboda
📸: Jan Svoboda © Artist’s Estate
Courtesy the Archive of Modern Conflict
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Support the publication of our current exhibiting artist
@tishmurtha
's seminal 'Elswick Kids' work.
The new photobook surveys Murtha's joyful and touching photographs of children in Elswick, a working class area of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s.
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#GregoryCrewdson
talks to
@CreativeReview
on differences in art & commercial
#photography
& on making his 1st movie
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It's your last chance to catch Shirley Baker's Personal Collection exhibition in our Print Sales Gallery before it closes at the end of this week.
Baker’s work traced communities in the North West of England throughout the 50s, 60s and into the 80s.
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It's your very last chance to see our current exhibitions. Tish Murtha: Works 1976-1991 and Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive close this Sunday 14 October.
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'Many feminist artists used photography & film because it's a distancing medium...painting was overlaid with the male gaze' Alexis Hunter
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"Bodies, sexuality, maternity, beauty standards + more are approached without inhibition"
#FeministAvantGarde
@TPGallery
on show till 2017
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“The worse the weather, the happier I am” – Martin Parr
We're dipping into our archive again and for November/December, we're looking at the work of Martin Parr! Bad Weather was a 1982 exhibition by the British photographer focusing on a great British obsession - weather!
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The Forgotten Photographer Who Captured Britain’s Social Crises
"Thanks to this new exhibition, Murtha’s idiosyncratic eye and resulting photography are afforded a newfound recognition."
Read the full review over on
@AnOtherMagazine
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The Gordon Parks Foundation are sharing photographs and stories from Parks' incredible archive on the TPG instagram this weekend.
Follow along:
Image: Untitled, ca. 1948
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Over the next 12 months, Kodak Alaris will be remanufacturing the film at Kodak’s factory in Rochester, N.Y.
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"The people that Killip portrays, and the landscapes they inhabit, are always shockingly, immediately alive, full of interest and possibility. Possibility that they are always denied, except through Killip’s photography” -Time Out
Visit the 5 ⭐️ Chris Killip show on display now!
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Instant Stories. Wim Wenders Polaroids, 4 Saints in 3 Acts and Wendy McMurdo - Indeterminate Objects (Classrooms) all open today here at TPG
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NOW OPEN
Welcome to Autumn at The Photographers' Gallery! 🍁🍂
Visit our new exhibitions: Chris Killip, retrospective, An Alternative History of Photography, A-Kin: Aarati Akkapeddi & Gohar Dashti: Across Land and Sea!
For more info on our programme👉️
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Hilary Robinson & Lynne Segal are discussing the power of women dancing at Greenham Common - the joy of protesting
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'Tish Murtha’s relentless vision can be characterized by a single trait: empathy. She unflinchingly investigated forsaken communities crippled by ineffective government policies and bleak living conditions.'
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Explore the work of Black women and non-binary artists and photographers in this 5-week online evening course led by researcher & curator Bolanle Tajudeen.
2 – 30 November
@blackblossomss
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"The isolation in this photograph is deafeningly loud & absolutely stunning" - visitor response to Gregory Crewdson's 'Father and Son'
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Don't miss our Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective exhibition tour on Thursday 9 November!
Join this tour, led by Senior Curator, Karen McQuaid, to find out more about the exhibition. Tour starts 6.30pm
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 & Roger Mayne open today here
@TPGallery
. Hope to see you in the gallery this weekend!
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"I want to make life as colourful as these Polaroids", visitor response to our current show 'Instant Stories. Wim Wenders' Polaroids'. Show closes 11 Feb.
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"An illuminating survey of a quiet American photographer who was a master of mood and sequence."
Really lovely to see 'Dave Heath: Dialogues With Solitude' acknowledged in the Guardian's list of the Top 10 photography exhibitions of the year.
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Missed out on our Killip exhibition?
Coming soon to
@balticgateshead
🌟 Explore the photography of Chris Killip from Saturday 1 April, who captured working class communities of North East England during the de-industrialisation of the 70s & 80s.
Visit ➡️
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