What's happening
The exhibition
The photography exhibition, Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins follows the lives of individuals and communities operating on the fringes of society from America to India, Chile to Nigeria.
The exhibition reflects a more diverse, complex view of the world, as captured and recorded by photographers. Driven by personal and political motivations, many of the photographers sought to provide an authentic representation of the disenfranchised communities with whom they spent months, years or even decades with, often conspiring with them to construct their own identity through the camera lens.
Creative tours
Creative tours of the gallery include: an exploration of nightlife and how it is documented, a walking discussion of privacy and photography tracing from the days of film to digital identity today, sound portraits and music developed in response to the work, new works of poetry and a mobile ‘drawing’ tour that asks visitors to draw and document key concepts that run through the exhibition.
Read more about the Young Barbican guides and their tours here.
Young Barbican guides and their tours
Bianca Borrisova is originally Russian-Bulgarian and has been based in London for the last year and a half. She studies Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, UAL and hopes to build a career within the arts and curation.
"In this tour, I will be focusing on the importance of privacy in the photography work at Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins. Particularly, I wish to focus on how the value as well as distribution of photography has changed since photography has become digital and explore whether most of these works could be created, were they done in a digital world. I will be doing the tour around the gallery and focusing on a number of artists, but will be strongly focusing on the works of Boris Mikhailov, Jim Goldberg and Larry Clark."
Bianca Borrisova
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Discover
Barbican Meets: Paz
Since the 1980s, Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz has documented those living on the fringes of society: from trans communities to the homeless. Here she recounts the stories behind some of her photographs.
Episode 1: Casa Susanna
We discuss Casa Susanna with curator, Alona Pardo, Rhyannon Styles, author of The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is and Professor Michael 'Miqqi Alicia' Gilbert, who share some of their own responses to this collection of photographs.
Episode 2 - Igor Palmin and the Soviet Hippies
Social and cultural historian of the Soviet Union, Juliane Furst and Ilia Rogatchevski, a Russian born, Scotland raised sound artist, discuss the subjects of Igor Palmin's photographs documenting the 'Soviet hippy' movement of the 1970s.
Watch: Young Reviewer on Another Kind of Life
Young Reviewer Barbara headed to the margins with our photography exhibition Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins - here she shares her highlights of the show...
Art Gallery
Location
The Art Gallery is located on Level 3 and can be accessed by stairs and lifts from Level G or via the Sculpture Court if coming from outside.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
