How do we show, document and record inequality visually? Join us for a photography workshop with documentary photographer Kirsty Mackay.

Taking the Exposure and contrast exhibition as inspiration the workshop will discuss "what does poverty look like then and now?".

How do we capture that in an image, why is it important and what considerations do we need to make? This 2 to 3 hour workshop will start off with group work before a practical session making our own photographs outside.

Tutor bio

Kirsty Mackay is a Scottish documentary photographer, activist and filmmaker. Mackay’s research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport. Her current book and exhibition project The Magic Money Tree, is a collaborate document of the Cost-of-Living crisis. Working alongside and teaching photography to children and young people across the UK. The Magic Money Tree attaches individual’s experiences with the structural, political, and economic. It shows us what poverty looks like in the world’s 6th richest economy. As a working-class artist, Kirsty’s own experiences of the socio-economic violence she grew up in, allow her empathy, connection and insight into the stories of the people she photographs, whilst connecting these experiences to the political and economic power structures of the British class system.

The British Library of Political and Economic Science (@LSELibrary) was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Building since 1978 and houses many world class collections, including the Women's Library and Hall-Carpenter Archives.