Launch - Somers Town: A Photographic `Exhibition

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?

Wandering its streets, exploring shared spaces, peering through windows and doorways, and meeting people and animals along the way, accompanied by her camera, Somers Town has become a familiar and welcoming place - a place of belonging.

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, and its theme of belonging, this photography 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 the 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 in outdoor and public settings, often connected to her work, including during the Somers Town festival (2022).

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.

The Museum is at 52 Phoenix Road, NW1 1ES, within the Ossulston Estate, a Grade 2 listed social housing.

Photography © Anna Lerner

Event Venue

People's Museum Somers Town, 52 Phoenix Road, London, United Kingdom

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