VENUE: CENTRE FOR BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY, 49 JERMYN STREET, LONDON SW1Y 6LX
Please join us for the screening of Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm. Released in 2018, it is the first feature-length documentary since 1980 about one of Britain’s most accomplished street photographers.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Monica Bohm-Duchen and Amanda Hopkinson, as well as the opportunity to view Dorothy Bohm, London Street Markets, on view at the Centre for British Photography until 17th December.
The pioneering photographer Dorothy Bohm, who died aged 98 in March 2023, was one of Britain’s finest street photographers, arriving in the UK in 1939 after fleeing Nazi persecution in Lithuania. With contributions from friends and family, and reflections from Dorothy herself, this insightful documentary reflects her most important images and revisits the places that have shaped her unique view of the world.
Richard Shaw has been producing short form films for museums and galleries for over eight years. He has developed work on various themes and contributed to exhibitions at Imperial War Museum North, Museum of Liverpool, Manchester Museum and the Science Museum, London. Richard is director of Unity House, a content agency and producers of Seeing Daylight.
Monica Bohm -Duchen is Dorothy’s eldest daughter and a London-based art historian. She is the Founding Director of the nationwide arts festival, Insiders/Outsiders which pays tribute to the contribution made to British culture by refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe.
Amanda Hopkinson is a photography curator and historian who wrote 'About Women' Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. The photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, are complemented by an insightful foreword by novelist Marika Cobbold and an informative essay, based on conversations with Dorothy Bohm.
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