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National Portraits 1973-4

Recent exhibitions which have included this work:

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2010
Projections of Reality
ПРОЕКЦИИ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ
Moscow 5-28 March, 2010. An exhibition of multimedia projections based on documentary material. Curated by Liza Faktor and Jamie Wellford. Red October, Bersenevskaya embankment, b. 6, building 3. View the brochure.

The exhibition features work by more than 20 photographers who use multimedia production techniques including multi-channel video installations, web-based projects, and interactive documentaries. Projects include:

Christopher Anderson of Magnum: Silicon Forest,
Samuel Bolendorff: Journey to the End of Coal,
Todd Heisler and the New York Times: One in Eight Million,
Tim Hetherington: Sleeping Soldiers,
Henrik Kastenskov: The Afghan Diaries,
Brenda Ann Kenneally: The Raw File,
Alex Majoli of Magnum: Libera Me,
Dmitry Markov: Senior Group,
Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum: Wall Street,
and others.

Daniel Meadows' The Bus is included as a pioneering example of this kind of multimedia narrative, 'with its concern for social issues based in the values of humanism'.


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2008-2010
No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1967-1987
An international Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition curated by David Alan Mellor, Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, from the collections of the Arts Council and the British Council.


The show's poster and the jacket design of the catalogue revisited the Arts Council's 1975 book British Image 1 which featured a group portrait I took in Portsmouth on 26 April 1974 of John Payne, aged 12, with two friends and his pigeon, Chequer.


To listen to a recording of my 1974 meeting with the three lads in the picture, click on the player (r/t: 2 min, 50 sec):



The exhibition opened at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 15th March 2008 and included 130 works by 34 photographers.

Visit Guardian.co.uk to read Jon Savage's review...


...and see a selection of pictures from the show.

No Such Thing As Society, toured in the UK and on the continent of Europe. In spring 2009, when it was in Sweden (see newspaper report) I gave a gallery talk there.

In the summer of 2009, when it was in Cardiff National Museum Wales it was seen by 20,683 visitors.

Its tour ended in February 2010.


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2007
How We Are - Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present
Tate Britain, summer 2007. Curated by Val Williams and Susan Bright.

This was the first time Tate had addressed Britain's photographic history. The work of more than 130 photographers was included. My contribution was the forty-one portraits which appear in the viewer at the top of this page. They were projected in sequence on a large, high-definition, plasma screen. 100,000 visitors attended.

Reviewing the Tate show for BBC Radio 4's Front Row, novelist Esther Freud chose this work as her "stand out" piece. She said: "It was incredibly moving... [Daniel Meadows] took these incredible very straight-forward photographs of people in their 'seventies clothes and, at the time after he'd done it, no one felt that they were particularly interesting or strange enough but now, looking at them, they're fascinating and they are certainly strange."