NICK HEDGES – MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING
2014-11-03Make Life Worth Living presents a collection of powerful and moving works by documentary photographer Nick Hedges, commissioned in 1968 by the housing and homelessness charity Shelter.
These hard-hitting photographs, exposing the poor housing conditions and abject poverty being endured by people across Britain, form one of the most important documentary photography projects of the 20th century.
Exhibited for the first time, following a 40 year restriction to protect the anonymity of the subjects, one hundred black and white photographs will be displayed alongside edited texts from Hedges’ detailed written notes of his travels and encounters.
Opposite – Terrace of back-to-back houses. Leeds, West Yorkshire, July 1970
Exhibition runs through to January 18th, 2015
The Science Museum
Exhibition Road
South Kensington
SW7 2DD
