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A book page with a person lying down with a dog sat on their stomach.

A Young Person Recommends... Périphérique

Abiba Coulibaly reviews the photobook Périphérique by Mohamed Bourouissa

Talks & Events‚ Online

Close up of a screen with the "Get / Justice" text on it

6:00pm, Wed 09 Feb 2022

WATCH: Screen Walk with Doreen Ríos

Watch Doreen Ríos in an online exploration of the early days of the internet and tactical media in Mexico

A collage of road signs and a double decker bus.

TPG Activity: Colours of the Street

This activity, created by Anna Foxabbott, invites you to interact with your outdoor environment in a new way through creating a colour restrictive photo collage.

A landscape pink rectangle tagged as 'bowl' and a portrait red rectangle tagged as 'fruit'

6:30pm, Wed 16 Feb 2022

Online book launch & talk: Andrew Dewdney & Joanna Zylinska - Forget Photography

Join Andrew Dewdney in an online conversation with Joanna Zylinska about his new book Forget Photography

Talks & Events‚ Online

An installation view of an exhibition on a gallery. There's a sculpture in the middle of the image, a built wall painted in green in the back, a large vertical screen on the left and other art works on view.

6:00pm, Wed 26 Jan 2022

WATCH: Screen Walk with Juan Covelli

Watch Juan Covelli in an online exploration

Group of six people standing in an open field facing right

6:30pm, Thu 27 Jan 2022

Artist Talk and Screening: Jasleen Kaur

Join this discussion and short screening of the film series Gut Feelings Meri Jaan by artist Jasleen Kaur

Black and white photograph on a person walking on a street in the distance.

TPG Activity: Fantastical Framing

This activity created by Yazid Rowe-Habbari invites you to create a series of photographs that frame the reality of street photography in unique and imaginative ways.

A book placed in green ivy.

A Young Person Recommends... Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller: Leben und Tod

Abigail Marlow reviews the photobook Leben und Tod by Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller

A person standing in the left of the frame presenting in front of photographs in frames on walls.

Teen Tours: Manon Petit

Manon Petit leads a 20-minute tour of the Helen Levitt retrospective In The Street

Talks & Events‚ Online

A forest under the snow in black and white

6:00pm, Wed 15 Dec 2021

WATCH: Screen Walk with Rosa Menkman

Watch Rosa Menkman in a live streamed performance

A person with no hair sat at a desk wearing a suit.

A Story Behind A Photograph by Jennifer Forward-Hayter

Jennifer Forward-Hayter shares a story behind the photo project They Were Ours

A taxidermy cat pokes its head through a square hole in the ceiling

6:00pm, Mon 13 Dec 2021

Negotiating the Art-Documentation-Industrial-Complex

An evening discussion exploring how artists negotiate the work of documentation in contemporary network culture

a photograph of a person standing in front of photographs hanging on the wall.

Teen Tours: Oscar Blair

A young person offers a fresh perspective on the Helen Levitt: In The Street exhibition.

Images from Jessa Fairbrother's Coordinate series, 2019

6:30pm, Wed 08 Dec 2021

Artist Talk: Jessa Fairbrother

Examine the intersections of performance and photography in the work of artist Jessa Fairbrother

Two freestanding walls at a right angle, covered in an optical black and white pattern, sits in a dark exhibition space with smaller optical works on the walls

'Everything was on the move’ by Anne Braybon

A photograph of a book cover on a wooden table.

A Young Person Recommends... Small Town Inertia

Josephine Ellis reviews the photobook Small Town Inertia by Jim Mortram

A photograph of a person sat on a dog cage with a distorted edited face.

TPG Activity: Dystopian Portraits

This activity, created by RAKE Collective, invites you to imagine yourself as a futuristic street photographer.

Landscape format portrait of a man wearing a green striped suit with a brick wall in the background

3:20pm, Thu 25 Nov 2021

Artist Talk: Mahtab Hussain

Explore ideas around immigration and self-hood through the portraiture of Mahtab Hussain

Light skinned mannequin displayed on black book cover. Figure is presented without arms and legs and with portions exposing more anatomical representation

6:30pm, Wed 01 Dec 2021

Artist Talk: Penny Slinger

Hear renowned artist Penny Slinger talk us through her 50-year-long career in this special talk

Bust of a boy, courtesy of Antonio Roberts

3:20pm, Thu 02 Dec 2021

Artist Talk: Antonio Roberts

Explore the tension between copyright and creativity in the work of Antonio Roberts in this new event

Our Curated Themes

A photograph of a crowd of people holding lights in the night.

A Story Behind a Photograph

A digital unicorn in human clothes walks along a 2D digital forest landscape

Screen Walks

A young photographer talks to a room of people

Artist Talks: Watch and Listen

Large 50th anniversary ident

50 Exhibitions for 50 Years

Dafna Talmor, Untitled (NE-040404-1), From the series Constructed Landscapes, 2015

Photography and Landscape

Returnings, David Rickard & SJ Fowler 2016

Photography and Poetry