Overview
The work of Jo Spence continues to influence and inform debates on photography. In her broad practice, typically involving collaboration with individuals and groups, Spence connected the personal with the political to explore how photography can represent and also construct through photography, teaching and writing, addressing subjects such as children’s rights, women’s rights, family, class and illness. Spence demonstrated an enduring commitment to her belief in photography’s ability to empower those that use and experience it.
The exhibition will showcase two different aspects of Spence’s photographic output. A presentation of documentary images from the 1970s will illustrate the educational workshops that she developed with her long-term collaborator, Terry Dennett, through their Children’s Educational Work, The Secret World of Children and Adventure Playgrounds projects. Stills will also display examples of self-portraiture from Spence’s use of photo therapy, a technique that she developed with Rosy Martin and began in 1984 in order to work through a number of personal histories relating to issues of sexuality, family and class.
Stills is supported by Creative Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council and The Foyle Foundation. The exhibition is in association with Richard Saltoun Gallery and The Jo Spence Memorial Archive.
When
Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm
Where
Stills
23 Cockburn Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
