What Soho Wore

Thu 14 Jul 2016 - Sat 24 Sep 2016

What Soho Wore explores the area’s rich cultural history and the role that photography has had within the multiple scenes, movements and communities that have made Soho what it was and is today.

What Soho Wore (Image: Devon Buchanon). Courtesy Nina Manandhar, 2016

What Soho Wore

Thu 14 Jul 2016 - Sat 24 Sep 2016

What Soho Wore explores the area’s rich cultural history and the role that photography has had within the multiple scenes, movements and communities that have made Soho what it was and is today.

This event is part of our Past Programme

From July 2016, Nina Manandhar, photographer and founder of What We Wore archive project, will be in residence at The Photographers’ Gallery mapping the hidden cultural history of Soho through people’s photography and stories. As independent clubs and shops are increasingly lost from the centre of the city, What Soho Wore explores the area’s rich cultural history and the role that photography has had within the multiple scenes, movements and communities that have made Soho what it was and is today.

The images and stories will be presented on The Media Wall, online and during a final discussion event on 18 September.

Install shot

Related event

18 Sep 2016
Soho Social: Adrift in Soho

Join us for a day of discussion, image-swaps and other activities celebrating Soho style. Hightlights include:

SOHO + SHIFTING LONDON
How does the Soho shift reflect wider changes in the city of London?
A conversation between Nina Manandhar (What Soho Wore), Ben Judah (Author of This Is London), Clare Lynch (Soho Society) and Tom James (Artist and Founder of Spacemakers)

PICTURES -
WHAT SOHO WORE — IN FIRST PERSON
10 minute show and tells throughout the day with contributors to the growing ‘What Soho Wore’ archive sharing their fav Soho images and stories.

BE PART OF THE SOHO STORY
Have you got a Soho memory to share?
Add your story to the growing What Soho Wore
wall map. Bring in your Soho images to be digitised and added to the archive.

#WhatSohoWore