Exhibitions

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Miyuki Okuyama’s first UK solo exhibition, Japan, outside Japan. The show features Okuyama’s two recent works, Dear Japanese: Children of War (2012-17) and Michinoku Homeward: Walking towards the Northeast (2021).

A mother and her child in a bathtub together, mother looking down and child directly at camera

Lāsma Poiša: 'I Became A Mother' at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery

8 March 2024 to 19 May 2024

A bold, uncompromising and thought-provoking exhibition exploring an unfiltered and often unseen side of motherhood is now at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery.

Lāsma Poiša’s I Became A Mother will be showcased at the historic venue between 8 March and 19 May.

Close-up of branches, brambles and flowers that have come together intertwining with each other

Matthew Conduit: LAND at Graves Gallery

2 January 2024 to 15 June 2024

Post-industrial landscapes have held a lifelong fascination for Sheffield-based artist Matthew Conduit. LAND presents a selection of images made over the last ten years which have never been on public display before.

A poster with text about the exhibition including black and white documentary images of people

Phil Portus: SALFORD 77 at Langworthy Cornerstone Community Centre

28 June 2024 to 29 August 2024

SALFORD 77 is a documentary photography project focusing on everyday life in a changing urban environment in 1977. It aims to bring back memories of these parts of Salford and to show younger people the times their parents and grandparents grew up in.

Woman photographed close-up against a bright pink backdrop

Casey Orr: Saturday Town at Open Eye Gallery

11 April 2024 to 18 May 2024

Saturday Town is a photography series by the award-winning photographer Casey Orr. Since 2013 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop-up portrait studio photographing young people on Saturday afternoons. The project explores fashion, identity and the self-expression of young people on Saturday afternoons on the high streets and public spaces of towns across the country.
This is the largest show of Saturday Town and Casey Orr’s first retrospective show - on at Open Eye Gallery intil 18 May.

A blue background of a wall and white hands around a hoop and rope in foreground and graffiti paint, a collage of images

FORMAT: Future Tense – Living the future now at QUAD

16 March 2024 to 30 June 2024

Future Tense is an open ended conversational, visual environment, composed of still and moving imagery. Viewed through a multifaceted lens of different life experiences, the exhibition features artists from diverse cultures & backgrounds. Future Tense engages audiences in a space of frequencies that collectively communicate different channels of contemplation, considering new understandings of time, but also how image surface can be interpreted as communal space to be questioned and dissected. This group exhibition runs until 30 June.

A young boy laid on the sofa looking down and sad in an evening light

Maria Reaney presents: Little Faces Big Feelings at the Library of Birmingham

18 April 2024 to 29 June 2024

"Little Faces Big Feelings" is a poignant photographic collection documenting and highlighting the profound impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people worldwide. The project, spearheaded by documentary photographer Maria Reaney, brings together 16 artists from internationally diverse backgrounds to shed light on the social and emotional challenges faced by children during lockdowns and thereafter. On at the Library of Birmingham 18 April - 29 June 2024.

Black and white image of an elderly lady in a wheelchair holding up a photo of a baby close to her face

Ian Beesley: Life Goes On at Salts Mill

27 April 2024 to 31 January 2025

This April, acclaimed Bradfordian social documentary photographer Ian Beesley turns 70. He has spent the last 5 decades documenting life in the North of England. He had planned to retire this year. Instead, the appetite for his work is stronger than ever. So on April 27 a previously unseen selection of Beesley’s work selected from his archive of over 200,000 images goes on show at Salts Mill, Saltaire.

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May 2017

Exhibition Flâneur

When Pigs Fly

Nerve

Shirley Baker - On the Beach

Elsewhere

Women, Children; and Loitering Men

Travel Photographer of the Year

Libya: A Human Marketplace

Revisiting the Coal Coast

Annual Exhibition of the Yorkshire Photographic Union 2017

Miyuki Okuyama: Japan, outside Japan at Daiwa Foundation Japan House