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Jo Spence

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  • Jo Spence. A Woman's Place?

    Jo Spence. A Woman's Place?

    Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Belfast Exposed, Belfast 17 Oct - 21 Dec 2024
    Press Release - for immediate use New exhibitions at Belfast Exposed to explore 'a women's place' through the lens of photography Ground-breaking works by feminist phototherapist Jo Spence and British-Asian...
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  • Writing her own Script. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Writing her own Script. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Somerset House, London 10 - 14 May 2023
    The exhibition charts a course from the 1930s to the present and provides an overview of photography in Britain that focuses on two strands: a humanistic documentary tradition and a...
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  • The English at Home. 20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    The English at Home. 20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Centre for British Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023
    The exhibition takes its title from one of the most important twentieth century photography publications, Bill Brandt’s first book, The English at Home (1935) and proposes that to understand contemporary...
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  • Jo Spence. Fairytales and Photography at the Centre for British Photography

    Jo Spence. Fairytales and Photography at the Centre for British Photography

    26 Jan - 28 May 2023
    Fairy Tales and Photography , staged at the newly opened Centre for British Photography, brings together archive material from the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive and photographs from the Hyman...
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  • Visual Politics

    Visual Politics

    10 Jan - 28 Aug 2022
    This exhibition presents a curated selection of works from the Hyman Collection focused mainly on recent acquisitions. In tribute to the intersectional feminist bell hooks who died in December 2021,...
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  • A Different Mirror. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    A Different Mirror. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Photo Oxford Festival 15 Oct - 15 Nov 2021
    Specially curated for the Photo Oxford Festival in Oxford, A Different Mirror presents a dialogue between two generations of socially engaged photographers from the pioneering work of Jo Spence and...
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  • Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy

    Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy

    Arnolfini, Bristol 19 Dec 2020 - 20 Jun 2021
    Spence has been an integral figure within photographic discourse from the 1970s onwards. Throughout her diverse projects she is well known for her highly politicised approach to photography and the...
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  • A Picture of Health. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    A Picture of Health. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    Arnolfini, Bristol 14 Nov 2020 - 1 Jul 2021
    The exhibition, which runs from 14 November to 21 February 2021, and its accompanying programme have been co-curated by the Arnolfini and the Hyman Collection as well as Creative Shift...
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  • Modern Nature. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Modern Nature. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Hepworth Wakefield 13 Jul 2018 - 22 Jul 2019
    For the first time in human history, more people are living in urban environments than in the countryside, yet the impulse to seek out nature remains as strong as ever....
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  • The Hyman Collection Donation

    The Hyman Collection Donation

    Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, USA 16 Jan - 28 Mar 2018
    The Hyman Collection gift to the Yale Center for British Art includes prints by famed British photographers Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972), and Martin Parr (b. 1952), and it...
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