“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” – James Baldwin, Nothing Personal.
A literal safe space has opened at The Photographers’ Gallery – Meditations on Love, an eclectic archive of photobooks, novels, and non-fiction pieces. Curated by Develop, a dynamic collective of six young visionaries commissioned by the gallery, this special reading room is an open invitation to reflect on how love is represented, preserved, and remembered.
Step into this welcoming space and lose yourself in stories exploring themes of resilience, community, friendship, subversion, identity, and queerness. Photobooks from the likes of Tami Aftab, Ollie Adegboye, Deana Lawson, and Ewen Spencer present love’s many faces—tender, provocative, queer, defiant, and sacrificial.
Together, this series of eclectic narratives attempts to articulate love’s capacity to endure amidst adversity, and its revolutionary power to resist.
The Photographers’ Gallery is based in London’s West End. Learn more about it here.
