The Wrong Class
Kiko Amat and Valentín Roma
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La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge La Rambla 99, 08002 Barcelona
Garment workers, Aldgate, London, 1979 © Paul Trevor.
Garment workers, Aldgate, London, 1979.
Kiko Amat, writer, and Valentín Roma, curator of the exhibition discuss the Exit Photography Group. Survival Programmes exhibition.
Carried out between 1974 and 1979, though published as a book in 1982 and shown at the Side Gallery that same year, Survival Programmes documents the impoverishment of the working classes of seven of Britain’s inner cities: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Glasgow and Belfast. The work of the Exit Photography Group is part of a network of self-organized initiatives that drove the development of a politicized documentary photographic culture in Great Britain throughout the seventies.
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