Photography
Artist embraces unease of being photographed in Shoreditch exhibition
Dianne Minnicucci’s series of portraits capture and revel in the discomfort of being in front of the camera
Read MoreIntersectional Grammar: Trees, Hackney Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Stop by this virtual forest’
The Lower Clapton venue has put on a display of arboreal photography to mark National Tree Week
Read MoreNever-before-seen artworks by Rotimi Fani-Kayode go on display in Shoreditch
The late artist’s ‘groundbreaking’ photography is on show at Autograph gallery
Read MoreColin O’Brien: Photographer, Chats Palace, exhibition review: ‘At once realist and lyrical’
The display in Homerton ‘reminds us how much of the public realm has been lost to contemporary lifestyles’
Read More‘We need more social housing’: Photographer Tom Hunter on Hackney’s evolution and the threat of ‘monoculture’
The artist, who lives and works locally, was speaking as his new exhibition went on display in London Fields
Read MoreLocal residents are the stars of new exhibition charting 50 years of life in Hackney
Hackney Museum’s upcoming show features work by the borough’s best photographers
Read MorePhotographer Carrie Mae Weems shows how art can reclaim history with emotive Barbican exhibition
Forty years of work are distilled into a show that has a ‘monumental effect’
Read MoreStreet Cries and Traders, Homerton Hospital, exhibition review: ‘Picturesque images of local life’
This selection of 13 images from the London Picture Archive are ‘well worth a peek’
Read More‘Impossible not to be curious’: Photographer challenges stereotype of nomadic Mongolians with exhibition on yurt-dwelling commuters
Despite being warned off, Cath Forrest documented the community of professionals who live in tents and work in the city
Read MoreHomerton Hospital unveils display of staff photographs in a ‘joyous celebration of living environment’
Local waterways and parks feature in a showcase of the ‘talent and ingenuity’ of health workers
Read More‘So many people want change’: Free photography exhibition in Hackney captures years of protest across the UK
Protest Stories by the Future Hackney collective is a comprehensive picture of the recent surge in activism
Read MoreAn English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’
Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’
Read MoreDexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’
The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’
Read More‘How can we shift the narrative?’ Photographs of smiling Black schoolboys go on display around Hackney as ‘call to action’
Exhibition by artist Kay Adekunle Rufai closes out this year’s Black history season
Read MoreTen artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery
Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak
Read MoreFuture Hackney collective returns with more stories and photographs from Ridley Road
Ridley Road Stories Part 2 goes on public display today under Hackney Central bridge on Mare Street
Read More#HackneyIsHome: Photographs by members of the public celebrate life in the borough
Shoreditch gallery Autograph unveils selection of submissions for project honouring a ‘brilliant place to call home’
Read MoreBrazilian photographer and activist Claudia Andujar set for major Barbican retrospective
Summer show will focus on Andujar’s work with Brazil’s Yanomami people, as curator says arts audiences must ‘take on ethical responsibility’
Read MorePhotographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition
Autograph gallery repurposes electronic billboard on Old Street for illuminating #HackneyIsHome project
Read MorePlight of local music venues brought into focus for charity photography book
Alex Amorós spent the November lockdown capturing the borough’s beloved stomping grounds, some of which are in a fight for survival
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