The Barbican Art Gallery exhibition "Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins" features over 300 photographs from 20 international photographers documenting people living on the margins of society from the 1950s to present day. The exhibition addresses what it means to exist outside mainstream society and the role of artists in portraying subcultures. It includes photos of transgender sex workers in 1980s Chile, men living off the grid in America, street kids in Seattle, and urban nomads in Nigeria. The diverse collection reflects complex and authentic views of gender, sexuality, countercultures, and minorities.

1. At a time of significant national and global uncertainty, The Barbican’s 2018 season explores
how artists respond to, reflect and potentially effect change in the social and political landscape.

2. Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Barbican Art Gallery
20 International Photographers who became insiders
Danny Lyon (remember him from Berlin?) said:
“I want to get close to people, not just physically close, emotionally close- all of it”

3. Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
What does this word mean?
Who, in society, could it refer to?
Can you think of any photographers who
photograph ‘on the margins’?

4. Larry Clark Diane Arbus
Bruce Davidson
Daido Moriyama

5. The exhibition directly – and at times poetically – addresses difficult questions about what it
means to exist in the margins, the role artists have played in portraying subcultures and the
complex intermingling between artistic and mainstream depictions of the outsider.
Adam’s Apple (1982-87), by Chilean
photographer Paz Errázuriz are
photos of a community of
transgender sex-workers working in
an underground brothel in Chile in
the 1980s. Taken during the military
dictatorship of General Augusto
Pinochet when gender non-
conforming people were regularly
subjected to curfews, persecutions
and police brutality, the
photographs are a collaborative and
defiant act of political resistance.

6. In Alec Soth’s Broken Manual (2006–10) he documents men living off the grid. His
atmospheric images, both colour and black and white, are of monks, survivalists, hermits
and runaways who all have in common the need to disappear in America.

7. New York photographer Mary Ellen Mark’s long term project, Streetwise (1983) focuses on her
time spent with Erin Charles, a street kid known as ‘Tiny’, who she first met as a 13 year old and
shows the harsh realities of life on the streets of Seattle.

8. The Hyena and Other Men (2005–2007) by South African photographer Pieter Hugo of a
group of urban nomads from Nigeria.

9. Reflecting a diverse, complex and authentic view of the world, the exhibition touches on themes
of gender and sexuality, countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds.
Bringing together over 300 works from the 1950s to now, the exhibition includes vintage and
contemporary prints, archival material, specialist magazines, rare film and photo books, from
leading photographers who developed these relationships and bodies of works over months,
years or even decades.
Seiji Kurata
Dayanita Singh

10. Links to Freedom
Links to Limitations

11. Trip: Friday 2nd March
Meet:
Twyford Ave @ 9.35
Bring:
Oyster (equiv)
Camera (charged and with SD card)
Note pad and something to write with (there will be tasks to complete in the gallery)
Food (we know how some of you like to eat/talk about eating)
Please note
‘Another Kind of Life’ includes some images that deal with challenging issues and contains
works of an adult nature.
Large bags, rucksacks and luggage are not permitted in the gallery. All bags are subject to
search.
Photography is not permitted.
Food and drink are not permitted.