Name: Discussion: Somers Town - A sense of belonging
Start: 2026-06-13T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-13T16:00:00+01:00
Location: People's Museum Somers Town

Discussion: Somers Town - A sense of belonging

Accompanying Somers Town: A Photographic Exhibition, hear from the artist in discussion with People's Museum Somers Town and others.
About this Event

This discussion accompanies the exhibiton Somers Town: A Photography Exhibition, viewable on site before and after this event.
Join Anna Lerner in discussion with community-led People’s Museum Somers Town founder, to hear more about her photography and how the neighbourhood creates a place of belonging, looking at its shared spaces, architectural features, and social housing movements. Share your own experiences, and join the conversation.

Local to the neighbourhood, Camden-based photographic artist, Anna Lerner has been photographing Somers Town for over five years. What is it that keeps her returning? And what is it about Somers Town and its built environment - its buildings, streets, and spaces – that help create a sense of belonging?

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, and its theme of belonging, this exhibition invites you to notice the quiet moments and details of a place - its streets, buildings and spaces - where people live, connect, gather, and belong – as well as some of the people and happenings that make it the neighbourhood it is.

Anna Lerner is a London-based photographic artist. Her practice is led by appreciation of the present and art in the everyday. In capturing the sense of a place or subject, her approach is intuitive, observational, poetic and often playful. Rooted in a regular, regenerative, almost meditative practice, she develops expansive bodies of work, often anchored around a locality or theme, explored over time.

Lerner’s work has been shown in group exhibitions and festivals across the UK, including Royal West of England Academy Open, Photofusion Salons, London Independent Photography Annuals and Photography on a Postcard, and shortlisted for the British Photography Awards (Street Category, 2020). Most recently, she was shortlisted for the Clyde and Co. and Macfarlane Art Prizes, as part of np.a. As well as in galleries, Lerner exhibits across outdoor and public settings, often connected to her work, including during the Somers Town festival (2022). She held her first substantive solo exhibition Fishing for Clouds at ODAC (2023).

A Space for Us – People’s Museum Somers Town is a space to preserve local voice and the area; to celebrate an incredible ‘radical, reformers and rebels‘ histories, to record the change now, as well as to campaign and preserve local working class heritage.

This community museum has been set up by local residents with the aim of playing a part in sustainable development of cities and civic society, and reducing inequality.

Please note that there is limited seating capacity.