Audio description in galleries and museums aims to make visual information accessible using verbal description. The Photographers' Gallery has, for several years, also linked audio description to slow looking and to visual literacy. Scroll down to hear five audio descriptions for five works in the exhibition. A transcript of each audio description is also available.

These audio descriptions have been produced by Eleanor Margolies, a writer and audio describer. She has a background in puppetry and theatre design, with interests in ecology and the role of the senses in performance. She audio describes in museum, theatre and dance contexts.

About Daido Moriyama, A Retrospective:

For more than sixty years, Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) has used his camera to interrogate and revolutionise the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images. Moriyama’s pioneering artistic spirit and visual intensity remain groundbreaking. 

The exhibition traces the path of a photographer who transformed the way we see photography and questioned the very nature of photography itself.

Below: Tokyo, 1969. From Accident, Premeditated or not. ©Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Below: For the magazine Provoke 3, Tokyo, 1969 © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Below: Tokyo, c.1971. Daido Moriyama/©Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Below: Yokosuka, 1970. ©Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Below: From Letter to St-Loup, 1990. © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.