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08 Oct 2020 - 23 Dec 2020

Unknown photographer, Black Power Demonstration and March, Notting Hill, London (1970)

This photograph depicts the arrest of activist and writer Barbara Beese. A member of the British Black Panthers, Beese was arrested for her involvement in protests against police targeting of...

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21 Feb 2020 - 06 Jun 2020

Iñaki Bonillas, Crucigrama 33 y 72 (2017)

This diptych is from a series of work entitled Crucigrama (Crossword Puzzle). The patterns that the artist uses for this series are taken from different crossword puzzles published in newspapers...

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17 Oct 2019 - 09 Feb 2020

Paul D. Barkshire, Berwick Street Market (1980)

There has been a market on Berwick Street in Soho for at least 180 years. Market traders at one time provided stock for some of the many restaurants in the...

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13 Jun 2019 - 05 Oct 2019

Antony Cairns, IBM LDN4_20 (2019)

This work is part of a series depicting sites in London at night. The image here has been shot on 35mm, with the negative partially developed, solarised and manipulated during...

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08 Mar 2019 - 01 Jun 2019

Dave Heath, Mummer’s Parade, New Year’s Day, Philadelphia (1951)

Begun in 1901, the Mummer’s Parade is an annual parade where local clubs compete in different music and costume categories in the Pennsport neighbourhood of Philadelphia, U.S.A.. Criticism arose over...

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25 Oct 2018 - 24 Feb 2019

Kim Kardashian, Instagram post, 2018

Reality television star and socialite Kim Kardashian West currently has over 100 million followers. Her Instagram account predominantly features selfies, alongside a mix of photographs of friends, family and brand...

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14 Jun 2018 - 13 Oct 2018

Photographer Unknown, Making banners for a Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU) Rally (1910)

The Women’s Social & Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. As a campaigning group for social reforms, whose motto was “Deeds, not words”, over 1,000 of its...

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20 Oct 2017 - 11 Feb 2018

Unknown designer, Mother India film poster (c. 1970s)

This poster is a hand-painted copy based on a still from the epic film Mother India. Released in 1957, at the time of the partition of India, it one of...

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22 Jun 2017 - 07 Oct 2017

Lucas Blalock, No Vacancy (2012)

Lucas Blalock is known to use a photographic process that shares much with drawing: creating and erasing layers of visual information to build playful and intriguing compositions. His approach encompasses...

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03 Mar 2017 - 11 Jun 2017

Susan Meiselas, Ritu, Room 12, Ruby House, The Haven, Wolverhampton (2016)

This photograph is from A Room of Their Own, a visual narrative combining images, testimony and collages. It was created through a series of collaborative workshops with photographer Susan Meiselas...

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12 Oct 2016 - 29 Jan 2017

Hayley Morris-Cafiero, Anonymity isn’t for Everyone (2010)

This photograph is from a series called The Watchers. Morris-Cafiero produced a range of self portraits in busy public places. Here she is seen sitting on the stairs in Times...

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20 Jul 2016 - 10 Oct 2016

Hilda Barerra Pérez, Untitled (Mexico), 2010

This photograph was created as part of a workshop run by Ojos Que Sienten (Sight of Emotion). Ojos Que Sienten exists to change perceptions about visually-impaired people. Its founder, photographer...

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20 Apr 2016 - 18 Jul 2016

Thomas Zummer, Study for a Portrait of ‘Simon Ironing’ (2005)

This study, by the philosopher and artist Thomas Zummer, relates to the series ‘Portraits of Robots’ where he creates drawings based on photographs of robots that date from the 1940s...

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29 Jan 2016 - 18 Apr 2016

Jolanta Dolweska, Lion (2013-2015)

This photograph is one of a series where Jolanta Dolewska presents photographs she has made alongside those taken by her father. She does this without identifying whose image is whose...

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07 Oct 2015 - 27 Jan 2016

Untitled (Crime Scene), photographer unknown, c.1950

This photograph purportedly comes from an archive in the Carlisle, Pennsylvania area of the USA. It was one of three prints listed on an eBay seller’s store, all depicting similarly...

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01 Jul 2015 - 05 Oct 2015

Randa Shaath, Under the Same Sky: Rooftops of Cairo (2002-2003)

The social use and occupation rooftops in Cairo has changed considerably over the past century. Once used solely by the family who owned the house, high-rise apartment buildings with multiple...

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01 Apr 2015 - 29 Jun 2015

Jason Fulford, Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006)

This double page spread from Raising Frogs for $$$ is from a photo book where a sequence of image pairs are juxtaposed and presented without captions. Jason Fulford describes the...

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08 Jan 2015 - 30 Mar 2015

Mohamed Bourouissa, Le Miroir (2006)

This work, from the series Périphérique, was made with the cooperation of young people from French suburbs in order to explore these specific social and geographical spaces. Bourouissa has said...

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01 Oct 2014 - 06 Jan 2015

James Casebere, Sea of Ice (2014)

This recent work is based on a painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Friedrich’s work, from 1823 - 1824, depicts a shipwreck locked in a broken sheet...

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02 Jul 2014 - 29 Sep 2014

Covered Stock Yard (c. 1916-17)

This item was selected to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. It depicts a steel foundry owned by William Shaw, who lived with his family...

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10 Apr 2014 - 30 Jun 2014

Lee Miller, Della Oake in “Fashion for Travel” Glamour, Waterloo Station, London (1949)

This photograph is part of the “Fashion for Travel” series Lee Miller produced for the U.S. magazine Glamour featuring Della Oake in a range of London locations. Like John Deakin...

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06 Feb 2014 - 30 Mar 2014

Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Eye-Catching Display (2013)

This display was a demonstration of a novel technique to show screen-based images in public spaces. It was developed by a team of researchers at Sharp Laboratories of Europe, located...

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07 Nov 2013 - 04 Feb 2014

Jessica Eaton, cfaal 312 (2013)

This photograph is from Jessica Eaton’s series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt. Eaton uses the additive, tri-colour process by placing red, green or blue gels over the camera lens to...

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07 Aug 2013 - 05 Nov 2013

Mitch Epstein, Lichtenberg, Berlin (2008)

This photograph is from the series Berlin. In 2008, Mitch Epstein was awarded a six-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin, where he set out to examine the city’s...

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01 May 2013 - 05 Aug 2013

Markéta Luskačová, Children in Horse Masks, Roztoky (2006)

This photograph is from On Death and Horses and Other People, an ongoing series begun in 1999 on the Winter Carnival in Roztoky, a small town on outskirts of Prague...

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31 Jan 2013 - 29 Apr 2013

World War I. Naval and Red Cross nurses training at Chatham Dockyards, Kent. Wounded from Zeebrugge having their wounds dressed (1918)

The British raid on the Belgian port of Zeebrugge in late Spring 1918 was intended to impede its use by German submarines by sinking ships in the waterways. British forces...

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01 Nov 2012 - 29 Jan 2013

William Eggleston, Untitled (Frond Outside Building) (1966-1974)

William Eggleston (b.1939, Memphis, USA) photographs scenes of everyday life with a ‘snapshot’ style. He is known for his use of the Dye Transfer process that enables greater photographic control...

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01 Aug 2012 - 30 Oct 2012

Raghubir Singh, Pavement Mirror Shop, Howrah, West Bengal (1991)

Raghubir Singh (1942, Jaipur, India – 1999, New York, USA) is considered a pioneer of colour photography. In the 1970s he was one of only a handful of prominent photographers...

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19 May 2012 - 30 Jul 2012

Jeff Wall, The Giant (1992)

Jeff Wall (b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada) has worked with photography for over forty years. He came to prominence in the 1980s because of his transparencies in lightboxes; they forged new...