| The Photographers Gallery

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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...

Touchstone Display

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...

Touchstone Display

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...

Touchstone Display

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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