Tag: photography
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Under Development What Happens When Cities Change?
Under Development is a documentary photography exhibition exploring how cities from Tyneside and East London have changed over the past 50 years. While both of these areas are over 280 miles away from each other they share a lot of similarities. Tyneside and East London both had extensive river trade and industry which then grew…
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Wall by Josef Koudelka – Photo book of the month
Wall by Josef Koudelka is a collection of panoramic landscapes of the wall built to stop Palestinians entering Israel. Described by some as a form of protection but by others a form of segregation. These photographs by Josef Koudelka are a beautiful but stark look into the harsh realities of marginalised people. Josef Koudelka Is…
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Brutal North by Simon Phipps – Photo book of the month
Brutal North: Post-War modernist architecture in the North of England is a look at the architecture in the north of England specifically documenting the Brutallist architecture spanning areas such as Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and more. This book tells a story of the post-war architecture in the north of England and in some ways shows the…
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Vandalism on a Grand Scale by Tish Murtha – Photo book of the month
Vandalism on a Grand Scale is a collection of documentary photographs depicting the poverty and unemployment crisis in working class communities around the north east of England in the 80s. These photographs are in some way a revising of her Youth Unemployment work. After people kept requesting more copies of the Youth Unemployment book Ella…
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Why People Photograph
Why do people photograph? For money, for fun, to get likes? Everyone has their own reasons for picking up a camera and capturing the world around them. I wanted to share some of the reasons that I photograph and hopefully it will inspire others to pick up a camera and start their own journey in…