Events and Exhibitions

A black and white image of gondoliers in a gondola in Venice in a canal with oars with general public crowds looking at them around and over a bridge
2 February 2024 to 2 April 2024

Ann Hutchinson is a photographer based in Hull who often travels by train to Venice where she became interested in the centuries-old Venetian tradition of water and oar and its place in a sustainable future for Venice, discover her exhibition at the University of Hull in February to April 2024.

Venues

Past Events and Exhibitions

14 September 2013 to 23 September 2013

The Home Front explores links between militarism, marketing and entertainment. Made over four years, this is the international premiere of photographer Melanie Friend’s major new exhibition.

The Home Front is a set of three related photographic series that together explore the civilian experience of war, with a particular focus on public air shows that take place at Royal Air Force bases, and in the skies above seaside resorts.

5 July 2013 to 31 August 2013

Impressions Gallery in partnership with Autograph ABP presents a retrospective of James Barnor’s street and studio photographs, spanning Ghana and London from the late 1940s to early 1970s.

This major touring exhibition has only previously been shown at Rivington Place, London and the South African National Gallery, Capetown.

18 January 2013 to 13 April 2013

As recent events demonstrate, Israel and its surrounding territories have been an area of contention and dispute since the country’s establishment in 1948.

In this timely and highly relevant exhibition, Yaakov Israel takes us on a geographical and metaphorical journey across this complex land, offering one man’s view- point of the nation that shares his name.

28 September 2012 to 5 January 2013

In November 1972 Impressions Gallery opened in a room above a shop in York with the first ever exhibition by the then unknown Martin Parr. As one of the first specialist photography galleries in Europe it has gone on to play a vital role in championing photography and has had a huge impact on the development of the photographic culture in Britain.

11 September 2012, 14:14 to 9 November 2012, 09:00

Support Impressions in this special fundraising campaign and help them to continue bringing the best of contemporary photography to as many people as possible.

To commemorate their 40th birthday, Impressions are giving one person the chance to win an original Martin Parr print, specially selected by the artist himself. All money raised from the prize draw will support their exhibition and events programme.

There are only 1,000 exclusive tickets at just £10 each, limited to 2 per person. The prize draw will be made on Friday 9 November 2012.

24 June 2012 to 9 September 2012

Made over a period of five years, Personal Best explores the stories of sixteen young athletes in the build up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The exhibition documents a unique time in British history, and captures the development of a generation of sportspeople as they grow from childhood to adulthood within the intense world of elite sport. This is the UK premiere and first major solo show of award-winning photographer Paul Floyd Blake.

6 April 2012 to 16 June 2012

In its British premiere, Making Space explores the expansion and development of Islam in contemporary Ireland.

Made over the course of three years, the exhibition examines the reuse of spaces for the purpose of prayer by Muslim communities throughout Ireland. This is Noel Bowler’s first major solo show in Britain.

Bowler reveals the quiet transformation of everyday spaces in urban, residential and rural locations. He records how private homes, warehouses, office spaces, and industrial units are being turned into spaces for prayer.

14 January 2012 to 24 March 2012

Made over a period of five years, The Sound of Two Songs offers an extensive and personal photographic survey of Poland.

This is the UK premiere of a major new exhibition by renowned Magnum photographer Mark Power.

28 September 2011 to 31 December 2011

An exhibition of Red Saunders’ epic photographic tableaux vivants. Extended until 31 December 2011.

In this exhibition at Impressions Gallery, Red Saunders’ epic photographic tableaux vivants (‘living pictures’) recreate momentous but overlooked events from Britain’s struggle for democracy and equality, from the Peasants Revolt of 1381 to the Chartist movement of the mid nineteenth century.

16 October 2011, 13:00 to 14:30

Diane Bielik discusses her exhibition Makeshift Monuments at Impressions, Bradford.

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