Photography

Reviews & Culture

“We needed to write our own history”

Known as the “Godfather of Black British Photography”, Vanley Burke was born in Jamaica and moved to Birmingham in 1965 at the age of 14. He spoke to Birmingham poet Kurly about his life, his photography, how communities had to respond to racism after immigrating, and his new exhibition at Birmingham Cathedral for Black History Month, Being Built Together.
01 October 2018
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Truth is in the eye of the editor

A decade of austerity and political crisis has led to a revival of interest in documentary photography. The cynicism about photography’s ability to expose truths about society, prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s, has waned. In its place is a growing awareness of the power of socially engaged photographic practices. Inevitably, past examples are looked...
02 July 2018
Reviews & Culture

Another Kind of Life

Another Kind of Life is a large and ambitious exhibition. There are works by 20 photographers, covering a period from the 1960s to the present. The people depicted cover a huge range of very different experiences, from the desperate homeless to neo-Nazis in the American wilderness, and many trans people across different societies surviving in...
26 March 2018
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Child’s Play

Child’s Play is a photographic exhibition featuring photos by Mark Neville that focus on the nature of children’s play. The exhibition has a very clear message that children should have more unstructured space in which to play freely. There are some very attention-grabbing photos taken in an adventure playground in Tottenham where children are able...
02 March 2017
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John Heartfield Photo montages

Tate Modern currently has a display of 54 works by the German artist John Heartfield (1891-1968).
01 September 2012