| The Photographers Gallery

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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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