News and Opportunities

The Lowry Centre, Salford
Until 1st March 2009

Covering almost a century, this major retrospective features work by seven of the The Guardian’s photographers, all based in the newspaper’s original home city of Manchester. As well as containing some fascinating and memorable individual images, the exhibition’s chronological layout also makes for an interesting parallel take on the history of photojournalism in general.

This exhibition explores the work of Julian Trevelyan and his studies on the Mass Observation project. In 1937, artist Humphrey Jennings, newspaper reporter and poet Charles Madge and anthropologist Tom Harrisson formed the Mass Observation team. Bolton was chosen as the base for northern research because it seemed like a typical northern town. Julian Trevelyan joined the team in 1937. He was one of a number of artists invited by Tom Harrisson to record what it felt like to be in Bolton.