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A bit on the nose! The world’s longest-running photography exhibition
Now on its 167th edition, the Royal Photographic Society’s annual show features moving explorations of kinks, visual disorders … and long-snouted clowns
TL;DR
- Robert Coxwell's 'Flowers' examines clothing in London's queer kink and BDSM community.
- Attilio Fiumarella's 'Swimmers' documents a protest against the closure of Moseley Road Baths.
- Kate Peters' 'Embodied Fictions' explores identity through portraits of female and nonbinary clowns.
- Michael James O'Brien's 'Girlfriend' series captures the transgressive and transformative nature of drag in 1990s New York and London.
- Alex Huda's 'Love Like a Monster' series delves into identity and self-love through collaboration with Hong Kong's Void punk counterculture.
- Kat Green's 'Eleven' series focuses on the transition from childhood to adolescence for girls.
- Thomas Mandl's '5 Superheroes' depicts children displaced by war in Ukraine.
- Alexander Williamson's 'Unseasonably Warm' explores the impact of climate change on Scotland's skiing industry.
- Siân Cann's 'The Retinopathy Forest' uses damaged polaroids to represent altered sight due to diabetic retinopathy.
- David Hadland's 'Kozak' project documents the lives of Ukrainian soldiers on the front line.
- Abbey Hepner's 'Reconstructing Uravan' uses tintype portraits to examine a former radium and uranium mining town.
- Marcy Palmer's 'Seeds of Strength and Resilience' explores reproductive rights and herbal abortifacients.
- Léa Chen's 'The Stars That Don’t Look Back' integrates family archives and literature to explore women's resilience in Taiwan.
- Jeremy Knowles' 'One of Us' confronts the rise of fascist and nationalist ideologies in Germany.
- Tom Dryden-Kelsey's 'Raising Doron' documents the everyday moments of an adoptive father.
- Oliver Woods' 'You Are My One and Only' explores grief and identity after the death of siblings and parents.
- Shizza Majeed's 'Babaji’s Britain' examines the dual Pakistani and British identity of her grandfather.
- Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang's 'Ephemeral Intimacy' explores connections on dating apps and self-discovery.
- Toby Binder's 'Youth of Belfast' shows the common problems faced by young people in Northern Ireland.
- Felicity Crawshaw's 'Beacons of Refuge' highlights spaces providing support and hope to those in need.
- Timon Benson's 'Compression' series envisions an overpopulated world through the lens of youth and the climate crisis.