The Hyman Collection is administrated by the Centre for British Photography (CBP) (registered charity number 1190955) and is a vital source of material for the Centre’s exhibition programme and also for loans to national and international museums and galleries.
The Hyman Collection has never charged a fee for museum loans as it is committed to making the work as accessible as possible. However, under the terms of its loan agreement, the CBP charges an administration fee which goes to the charity and reflects the growing number of loan requests and the increase in registrar time.
In addition to loaning individual artworks to exhibitions across the world, the Hyman Collection also offers curated exhibitions for loan. These packages include curation, labelling and signage, framing etc. Some sample exhibitons are shown below.
For loan enquiries and details of our touring exhibition packages please contact Saray Garcia Alvarez saray@britishphotography.org
Past
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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 artist Arpita Shah use photography to challenge ideas on female roles and identity. Jo Spence: A Woman's Place? | Arpita... Read more -
Arpita Shah: Modern Muse
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 artist Arpita Shah use photography to challenge ideas on female roles and identity. Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place? | Arpita... Read more -
Arpita Shaw. Modern Muse
Oxford Festival of the Arts / Photo Oxford 28 Jun - 14 Jul 2024 Details can be found here: OXFORD The Modern Muse – Arpita Shah in collaboration with Photo Oxford 28 June – 14 July Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 4pm – 7pm Weekends, 11am – 4pm Drawing from, and subverting the conventions of Mughal and Indian miniature paintings from ancient to pre-colonial times, Arpita... Read more -
Uncharted Streets: Kurt Hutton, Bill Brandt, Edith Tudor-Hart, Charlie Phillips, Markéta Luskačová
Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Ben Uri Gallery and Museum 17 Jan - 8 Mar 2024 Curated by the Centre for British Photography for the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, Uncharted Streets: Photographers from the Hyman Collection presents five photographers who were born outside the UK but have been central to the development of photography in Britain over the last century. The title alludes to William... Read more -
Daniel Meadows. Free Photographic Omnibus
Centre for British Photography 5 Oct - 22 Dec 2023 Curator: James Hyman This exhibition is available for hire. On 22 September 1973, from the car park behind Impressions Gallery in York, Daniel Meadows set off on a long-planned adventure in the rickety 1948 double-decker bus that he'd repurposed as his home, gallery and darkroom. His mission? To make a... Read more -
John Blakemore. Seduced by Light.
Centre for British Photography 8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 The exhibition, held at the Centre for British Photography, includes black and white landscapes made in Wales and England. These range from early works that respond to the movement of water to later works taken in a forest that combine up to 48 exposures on a single negative capturing, in... Read more -
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 more personal, performative, practice. The exhibition takes its name from a large-scale photograph by Susan Hiller. It begins with political... Read more -
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 depictions of the home there is much to learn from exploring a lineage that begins with Bill Brandt and travels... Read more -
Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox. Spitting
Centre for British Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 In 2015 The Hyman Collection commissioned Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox to respond to the original Fluk and Law Spitting Image puppets of Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet Ministers in our collection. One of the most popular British television programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, watched by an audience of... Read more -
Natasha Caruana. Fairytale for Sale
Centre for British Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 Natasha Caruana's Fairytale for Sale is a recent acquisition by The Hyman Collection. The installation explores wedding customs in the UK, revealing the fantasy, performance and trophy moments of the traditional big day. The series consists of online adverts of brides wearing redundant wedding dresses. The smiling faces of the... Read more -
Heather Agyepong. Wish You Were Here
Centre for British Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 In 2019 The Hyman Collection commissioned Heather Agyepong to respond to early twentieth century postcard imagery reflecting the dance craze in Europe, The Cake Walk. The resulting series was named Wish You Were Here (2020). Artist's Statement by Heather Agyepong: 'Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it,... Read more -
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 Collection to explore the ways in which the fantasy of the fairy tale informs Spence’s critiques of class and gender, but... Read more -
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, its title references one of her best known publications on visual art. The works included address such themes as history... Read more -
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 Alexis Hunter, grounded in 1970s feminism, to the recent projects of three young artists: Heather Agyepong, Eliza Hatch and Bindi... Read more -
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 representation of her own struggles with cancer. From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and... Read more -
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 and Fresh Arts, Bristol's leading organisations, providing creative wellbeing activities, to adults who are experiencing or are vulnerable to, isolation... Read more -
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. This new exhibition of photographs by leading British photographers such as Shirley Baker, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Chris Killip, Martin... Read more -
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 introduces works by Bert Hardy (1913-1995), Roger Mayne (1929-2014), Fay Godwin (1931-2005), John Blakemore (b. 1936), Colin Jones (b. 1936),... Read more
