Events and Exhibitions
We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK is a collaborative project by photographer Andy Barnham and researcher Sara de Jong, which documents the experiences of Afghan interpreters who were employed by the British Army in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2021, and resettled to the UK in 2021. This exhibition is on at Impressions Gallery until 4 May.
Shy Burhan's acclaimed 'Women in Uniform' photo exhibition is 'coming home' to Bradford's Cartwright Hall Art Gallery for the first time!
This April, acclaimed Bradfordian social documentary photographer Ian Beesley turns 70. He has spent the last 5 decades documenting life in the North of England. He had planned to retire this year. Instead, the appetite for his work is stronger than ever. So on April 27 a previously unseen selection of Beesley’s work selected from his archive of over 200,000 images goes on show at Salts Mill, Saltaire.
Venues
Past Events and Exhibitions
Join photographer and British Army veteran Andy Barnham, researcher Sara de Jong, and two Afghan interpreters to learn more about the project We Are Here, Because You Were There. Discover how photography became a tool for activism, enabling the experiences and stories of Afghan interpreters to be told, on 27 April at Impressions Gallery.
Join Afghan refugee Nahid Hamidi for an inspirational talk, as she shares her experience as a leader within the humanitarian sector, establishing an NGO in Afghanistan, and setting up The Afghan Kitchen in the UK, a pop-up restaurant that supports other refugees who have relocated to Yorkshire on 18 April at Impressions Gallery.
Travel through the exhibition A Wounded Landscape alongside photographer Marc Wilson to find out more about what inspired his work.
Impressions Gallery's annual Photobook Fair returns with a spotlight on environmentally conscious approaches to photobook publishing, on 28 October 2023.
Morrissey came to prominence in the early 2000s among a generation of female photographers working with staged photography, often putting themselves in the picture. Throughout her career, the artist has combined performance, photography, and film to play real and fictional characters. Using herself, and in collaboration with others, Morrissey’s practice explores historic and contemporary ideas about women, family and the body. The exhibition brings back to Impressions Gallery selections from Morrissey’s seminal photographic series Seven Years (2001-2004) and Front, (2005-2007) both commissioned by Impressions and developed over long periods of time.
A new exhibition at Impressions Gallery tells the story of Maryam Wahid’s remarkable journey to discover her Pakistani identity while visiting her mother’s childhood home for the first time
Stina Fisher - Copyright Margaret Mitchell
This Separated Isle explores how concepts of ‘Britishness’ reveal an inclusive range of opinions and understandings about our national character. Based on the book Invisible Britain: This Separated Isle, the exhibition presents a diverse range of engaging photographic portraits of people from across the UK. Each portrait is accompanied with a poignant first person testimony that draws attention to each person’s story, placing them centre stage so that we can begin to understand their lives.
No Man’s Land offers rarely-seen female perspectives on the First World War, featuring images taken by women who worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, and official photographers, as well as contemporary artists directly inspired by the conflict.
Nothing compared to photography when it came to capturing the Industrial Revolution. As Britain’s society changed, techniques in photography developed, enabling workers to capture their own lives for the first time.
From urban woods to wildlife, Liza Dracup is inspired by the landscape and natural history of Britain.