Skip to content
Hackney Citizen
  • Sign up to our free newsletter
  • E-Edition
  • Get in touch
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Community standards

Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems shows how art can reclaim history with emotive Barbican exhibition

By Marion Weaver | Wednesday 30 August 2023 at 16:16

Forty years of work are distilled into a show that has a ‘monumental effect’

Read More

Street Cries and Traders, Homerton Hospital, exhibition review: ‘Picturesque images of local life’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 4 August 2023 at 10:23

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

By Marion Weaver | Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 12:02

Despite being warned off, Cath Forrest documented the community of professionals who live in tents and work in the city

Read More

Homerton Hospital unveils display of staff photographs in a ‘joyous celebration of living environment’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 12:00

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

By Marion Weaver | Wednesday 1 February 2023 at 16:21

Protest Stories by the Future Hackney collective is a comprehensive picture of the recent surge in activism

Read More

Rare Hackney, Two More Years studio, exhibition review: ‘You won’t regret a visit’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 20 October 2022 at 12:57

Neil Martinson’s photographs of the borough, on display to raise money for the local food bank, show ‘a community on the move’

Read More

After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 10 October 2022 at 09:14

Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’

Read More

The Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 June 2022 at 13:31

Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’

Read More

An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 24 June 2022 at 17:31

Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’

Read More

Mónica de Miranda explores African diasporic experiences and Europe’s colonial past in new Shoreditch exhibition

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 22 June 2022 at 15:32

The Angolan-Portuguese artist’s latest work will be on display at Autograph from 24 June

Read More

‘We are gold and we should have been looked after’: Woman behind Grenfell photography book uses Hoxton exhibition to highlight lack of support

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 19:21

Feruza Afewerki was joined by survivors and people bereaved by the fire ahead of next week’s anniversary

Read More

Mabley Green Class of ’21, Benjamin Hughes, book review: ‘The art of rock-climbing on the plains of Homerton’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 1 April 2022 at 14:56

The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park

Read More

Artist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 17 January 2022 at 11:52

The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more

Read More

Exeunt – The Stage Door Project, Lloyd McDonagh and Salvatore Scarpa, book review: ‘Oblique yet poignant angle on thespian life’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 December 2021 at 10:31

Actors McDonagh and Scarpa talk to the Citizen about their intimate portrait of the pandemic’s impact on theatres

Read More

‘How can we shift the narrative?’ Photographs of smiling Black schoolboys go on display around Hackney as ‘call to action’

By Tom Davidson | Friday 17 December 2021 at 18:01

Exhibition by artist Kay Adekunle Rufai closes out this year’s Black history season

Read More

Ten artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 11 November 2021 at 13:35

Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak

Read More

Future Hackney collective returns with more stories and photographs from Ridley Road

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 24 September 2021 at 11:09

Ridley Road Stories Part 2 goes on public display today under Hackney Central bridge on Mare Street

Read More

Hackney swimmers feature in charity photographs celebrating the power of water

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 16 July 2021 at 11:45

Local swimmers from London Fiel;ds Lido and West Reservoir Centre take part in WaterAid campaign

Read More

One Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 3 June 2021 at 10:50

The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’

Read More

Anne Hardy: Rising Heat, Maureen Paley: ‘A piece of waste becomes a diaphanous pink ghost’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 April 2021 at 10:09

The first show at the gallery’s new Studio M is ‘well worth a visit’

Read More
« Newer Posts
Older Posts »
Hackney Citizen does not take responsibility for any comments posted on this site. Hackney Citizen is operated by Citizen News & Media Limited - Terms and Conditions. Citizen News & Media Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. No.06426082. Registered Office: Citizen News & Media Limited, 9 Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DD. The Hackney Citizen® is a registered trademark © 2025 Citizen News & Media Limited.
© 2024 Citizen News & Media Limited