#gallery trip

The exhibition, now in its fifty-fourth year, showcases some of the best wildlife photography on the planet. This year's competition attracted more than 45,000 entries from professionals and amateurs in 95 countries.

Explore the world's best nature photography, exhibited on 100 exquisite light panels. Experience the changing face of nature and uncover the surprising, and sometimes challenging, stories behind the photographs. 

This was the presentational layout of how the images were shown, with its description, title, photographer and where it was shot:

Tigerland by Emmanuel Rondeau

In a remote forest, high in the Himalayas of central Bhutan, a Bengal tiger fixes his gaze on the camera. The path he treads is part of a network linking the country's national parks, corridors that are key to the conservation of this endangered subspecies but unprotected from logging and poaching.

Emmanuel and a team of rangers climbed rugged terrain, with enough kit to set up eight still and eight video cameras along one route, in the hope of glimpsing a tiger pass by (there were just 103 in Bhutan at the last count).

Printing and Framing Company

We went here to look at the different C-Types and G-Types papers that we could use for printing our own work, as well as different framing options which we had, especially if we decided to print with them.

Pro-lab printers, the largest selection of pro-grade fine art papers and hundreds of framing and mounting options to make your work look the best it possibly can.

     Street Photography International presents – LDN

Street Photography International was founded in 2015 and quickly established itself as one of the leading collectives in the genre. They now have the largest dedicated street photography account on Instagram with over 680,000 followers.

Championing the work of less-well-known photographers is the common thread in both SPi’s Instagram account and the SPi Street Awards. Curating to a standard, not to a name. Curated by photographers, for photographers.

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Tish Murtha: Works, 1976 - 1991

Floor 2

Tish Murtha: Works 1976 – 1991 is a new exhibition which charts the remarkable accomplishments of documentary photographer Tish Murtha and offers a tender and frank perspective on a historic moment of social deprivation and instability in Britain.

The exhibition surveys six major bodies of work; 

Newport Pub (1976/78)

Elswick Kids (1978)

Juvenile Jazz Bands (1979)

 Youth Unemployment(1980)

London by Night (1983) 

Elswick Revisited (1987 – 1991)

Tish Murtha uses both vintage and contemporary prints. In addition, the exhibition will also include personal letters and ephemeral material from the Tish Murtha Archive.

The earliest series in this show, Newport Pub, dates from this period – where Murtha photographed the realities of everyday life for the regulars of a typical public house, ‘The New Found Out’ in a deprived area.

This exhibition includes two bodies of work Murtha produced on the scheme, Juvenile Jazz Bands and Youth Unemployment. Juvenile Jazz Bands documented children’s marching bands, which were an important part of life in the North East. 

Murtha’s interest in unemployed youth grew out of her own experiences and an earlier project she had created in Newcastle for the housing charity Shelter. Made in West Newcastle, Youth Unemployment combines sharp social observation with a lyrical sense of place and form. Murtha witnessed the dereliction of young lives up close and the figures that populate her series were often friends, family and neighbours. 

These strong personal ties to the subject matter compelled her towards creating work that could help those being offered little assistance in times of mass factory and mine closures. Witnessing government policies beginning to take hold on her community, she used her photography to confront the reality and impact of the political decision making of the day. 

Youth Unemployment is undoubtedly Murtha’s most celebrated body of work. The Guardian’s photography critic Sean O’Hagan wrote: “There is much grittiness and poverty on display here… , too, and, everywhere you look, class rears its divisive head. Tish Murtha's black-and-white portrait of a couple lounging on a bed, watched from an adjacent cot by their curious child, is a study in enervation... [it] was taken in 1980. It could, though, be 1930.”

After the Youth Unemployment exhibition in 1981, Murtha moved to London where she was commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery to create a series on the sex industry in Soho for the group exhibition London by Night(1983). The work paired Murtha’s photographs with texts by her collaborator Karen Leslie who worked as a dancer and a stripper. Together the text and photographs still stand as a powerful critique of the sex trade.

The final series in the exhibition, Elswick Revisted touches on racism and the impact of increasing cultural diversity in the area she knew so well. As with all of her photography, the series is an impassioned investigation into the lived reality of political policies, living conditions and communities struggling to survive in austere and transitional times. It parallels to contemporary living conditions, austerity politics and growing social inequality, bring a timely urgency to viewing Murtha’s work.