Photography and video

Archived Projects

Exhibition of 108 modern prints on loan from Sotheby’s archive tracing Cecil Beaton’s career as a dandy photographer, concentrating on his treatment of glamour and artifice.

An exhibition of 75 facsimile photographs, taken by the children’s author and mathematician Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles Dodgson), over a period of 24 years. The work features portraits of close family and friends as well as landscape views of Oxford and includes portraits of Alice Liddell, the inspiration for his classic book Alice in Wonderland.

Exhibition of photographs drawn from archival press pictures and family snapshots, reflecting the artist’s own perceptions and emotional responses to what football means to him and football fans generally.

Exhibition of John Kippin’s documentary photographs selected by the artist for the first Dhaka Photography festival.

Photographs of Little Sparta, the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. The exhibition was curated and first shown at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and the international tour organised by the British Council.

Exhibition of panoramic photographs on loan from the artist documenting the coast of Britain at precise 50km intervals, completely encircling the island.

Martin Parr’s Home and Abroad, a selection of his colour photographs from 1983 to the present, draws on the contemporary idiom of the soap opera to tell a very different story. Not a celebration of personal events but a fable of our times, a cautionary tale about the homogenisation of Western culture towards the end of the twentieth century.

The starting point for this project was Mark Power’s belief that ‘photography shares with architecture a natural relationship with time and space’.

This exhibition features facsimile sepia photographs from the period 1850-75 representing the work of photographers who had aesthetic and pictorial links with the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Drawn from the extensive photographic archives of Ceylonese material held privately and publicly within the UK, this exhibition examines the first fifty years of photography in Ceylon. The bewildering array of subjects encompasses both the epic and everyday, from sublime panoramas of mountain landscapes to the exquisite detail of an individual bread-fruit.

This exhibition highlights some of the most interesting work being made in Britain at present in the medium of film and video, encompassing different trends within the media such as appropriation, performances to camera, observations or documentation, and the moving image's relationship to other media such as drawing and sculpture.

Reality Check is an exhibition inspired by real things in the real world - by events, people, relationships, places, things - while moving between differing levels of truth and imagination, perception and pretence.

In January 2001, Catherine Yass represented Britain at the 10th Indian Triennale, where she won a prestigious prize for Star, six portraits of famous Indian filmstars and four images of the auditoriums of cinemas in Mumbai.

A solo exhibition of photographs featuring the work of Madame Yevonde, the pioneering photographer who set up her first studio in London in 1914 and developed a method of producing vivid colour prints, particularly associated with her famous portraits of society women as Greek and Roman goddesses

Video works presented on three large ‘cinema’ style screens with surround-sound, enabling a  journey through the social landscapes of corporate commerce, fashion, youth and club culture, religion, employment and the interconnected information flow of the 21st century city.

The award-winning young British photographer runs photography workshops for young semi-professional photographers living and working mainly in countries within Africa. The workshops aim to enhance existing skills and develop a keener sense of good visual literacy as manifested in photojournalism and documentary practice.

For her first exhibition in Russia, Sam Taylor-Wood presents three photographic series alongside three video projections. This body of work continues the artist’s exploration into the physical and emotional limits of individuals operating in contemporary society.