United Kingdom, from the closure of mines to Brexit and COVID-19, the history of the island as seen through the lenses of the best documentary filmmakers: this is the exhibition "Watch: Britain". At the exhibition, we will present two hundred photos created by thirty nine female and male photographers.
Skinheads and shopaholics, melancholic seaside resorts and big-city yuppies in high gear, separationists in Northern Ireland, miners from Thatcher's shutdown mines, and visitors from various parts of the former empire. The exhibition "Watch: Britain. British documentary photography since the 1960s ”allows viewers to immerse themselves in the crucible of island culture, to which in the post-war period more and more people add new ingredients. The exhibition shows the many 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.
The exhibition is the largest exhibition of British documentary photography outside the UK. It has been presented at German institutions such as: the Museum Goch, Kunsthalle Darmstadt and Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. Its originator and main curator is Ralph Goertz. The exhibition was adapted and developed by Dominik Kuryłek for the needs of the Museum of Photography in Krakow. – ‘We really wanted to bring this exhibition to Krakow due to the special relationship between Poland and the UK. Since 2004, when economic emigration to the Islands became possible, almost a million Poles lived in the United Kingdom, and to this day almost 700,000 people remain there, which makes Great Britain the seventeenth Polish province. We wanted to show the Polish audience how over the last six decades British society has changed (and is still changing!) And how photography has changed along with it’, says curator Dominik Kuryłek.
More Information: https://mufo.krakow.pl/odwiedzaj/wystawy/zobacz-brytania