The 80’s Photographing Britain
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the stunning thought-provoking exhibition THE 80s: PHOTOGRAPHING BRITAIN at London’s Tate Britain
The beginning of the AIDS crisis, mass unemployment, urban riots, the Miners’ strike, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Thatcherism, Section 28, the build-up to the controversial Poll Tax and much more…the 1980s on paper look pretty traumatic for the UK. This holds true for photographic paper too, as is borne out by the…