Seeing is Believing: Poverty in the UK

The children’s charity Barnardo’s has opened a major photographic exhibition at the Bargehouse in the Oxo Tower building called Seeing is Believing: Poverty in the UK which looks at how vulnerable people in modern Britain cope with debt, sexual exploitation, homelessness, unemployment, isolation, violence and disability.

At the beginning of this year Barnardo’s commissioned photographic artist Marysa Dowling and writer Diane Church to work with 100 children, young people and parents who are living in poverty to produce work that reflects their current lives. The people taking part used photography, film, sound, drawings and text to tell their particular stories or point of view. The images produced aim to be thought provoking, sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, but giving in a window onto poverty in modern Britain.

The exhibition is running from now until 31 December, open from 11am-6pm but closed 24-26 December. The Oxo Tower Wharf is on the south bank between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges. Map

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