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Pride 26

Pride 26: We're celebrating with an exhibition by pioneering LGBTQ+ photographer Alice Austen. Outdoors, in Mortimer Gardens 19 to 28 June....

Site Festival 26

Museum Display. Site Festival 26: Works by fine art photographer Rita Long and responses by some of the young people she's been working with...

YP Exhibition 25-26

Until 13 December: Youth Programme Exhibition by Ruby Harrison that explores an event that would reshape the cultural and legal landscape of the British countryside....

Cartes de Visite

 The carte-de-visiterevolutionised 19th-century portrait photography. A multi-lens camera made portraiture affordable and accessible....

Done Doing Time

Exhibition: The work of Hinda Schuman in her 2023 exploration of two women from one of the most vulnerable, most isolated demographics in America: women released from prison....

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Margaret Gross Michaelis-Sachs

Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…
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15th December 2022