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A scene from Jean Rouch's Petit à petit
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Screen Notes: Returning the Colonial Gaze

Discover a less well known world of cinema in these bold and ground-breaking films from French agitators and directors from newly independent countries in Francophone Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s. 

tuning into change
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Tuning Into Change

Written for young people by young people, read a youth manifesto for the arts in 'Tuning into Change'

Gazing directly into the camera, Paz Errazuriz’s arresting photograph of Pilar, a cross-dresser working in an underground brothel in Chile during the 1980s.
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Another Kind of Life Story

We look closer at some of the stories behind the photographers and their subjects of 'Another Kind of Life' in our podcast series.

Roderick Williams standing against wall
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Guest Picks: Roderick Williams

Ahead of his 2019 concerts, we invite our Milton Court Artist-in-Residence to share some of his favourite tracks in our latest Guest Picks.

Simon McBurney in The Encounter
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Complicite: The Encounter

Simon McBurney and Marcus du Sautoy discuss the role of consciousness in 'The Encounter', a theatrical retelling of the incredible true story of National Geographic photographer, Loren McIntyre and his journey into in a remote area of Brazil in 1969

photo of two young topless men laughing in the dark
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Barbican Meets: Walter Pfeiffer

 

Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer recounts his first steps into the world of photography, and shares the story of how 'Carlo Joh', his series of photographs of a young man oscillating between naked, made-up and drag, came into being.