British documentary photography at the Museum of Photography in Krakow

from June 16 to September 18, 2022, at MuFo Rakowicka, at 22A Rakowicka Street in Krakow.

Skinheads, melancholy seaside resorts, big-city yuppies, miners from closing mines. The exhibition "See: Britain" is a fantastic cross-section through 60 years of island culture through the lens of top documentary photographers. More than 200 images by renowned photographers.

Exhibition "See: Britain. British Documentary Photography since the 1960s." allows viewers to immerse themselves in the melting pot of island culture, to which new ingredients have been added by more and more people in the post-war period. The exhibition shows the varied faces of the British people and the British landscape - cities, shaped by heavy industry, resorts and picturesque pastures, thus presenting the social changes of the last sixty years.

At the exhibition we present works of 39 photographers: from the oldest, Ghanaian-born James Barnor in 1929, to Markéta Luskačová, whose hometown is Prague, or Mumbai-based Roy Mehta, to Sandra Mickiewicz, whose family moved to the UK in 2007. There is no shortage of surprising connections, such as the Scotsman Rob Bremner, who portrayed the Liverpool suburban community doomed by Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. The exhibition will also feature classics of British photography - Martin Parr, John Bulmer, Tony-Ray Jones, John Davies, and Anna Fox.

The exhibition, the largest show of British documentary photography outside the UK, has previously been presented at German institutions - Museum Goch, Kunsthalle Darmstadt and Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. Its originator and chief curator is Ralph Goertz, and it was adapted and developed for the Museum of Photography in Krakow by Dominik Kuryłek.

Exhibition participants: Mike Abrahams, James Barnor, Rob Bremner, John Bulmer, Robert Darch, John Davies, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Judy Greenway, Mohamed Hassan, David Hurn, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Kalpesh Lathigra, Barry Lewis, Markéta Luskačová, Kirsty Mackay, Fran May, Niall McDiarmid, Daniel Meadows, Roy Mehta, Sandra Mickiewicz, Peter Mitchell, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Mark Neville, Kevin O'Farrell, Martin Parr, Mark Pinder, Yan Wang Preston, Ryan Prince, Kavi Pujara, Tony Ray-Jones, Paul Reas, Syd Shelton, David Sinclair, Czeslaw Siegieda, Homer Sykes, Alys Tomlinson, Jon Tonks.