A stones throw from Oxford Street, The Photographers’ Gallery is the ideal place to spend some down time.
I paid £4 for a day pass and whizzed around three great exhibitions. They covered everything from the dull pain of grief in a series of images taken by Sophie Calle, to life in 1950s Britain by Roger Mayne, while Dana Lixenberg’s study of people from Imperial Courts, a neighbourhood in L.A. taken just after after the Rodney King riots, really pulls you in.
The exhibitions are a real mixed bag of life, the human condition and the gritty reality of emotion and that’s exactly what links them together.
Here are some of my favourite shots from what I saw.
