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Photograph: Dancing Girls

Object

Photograph

Production date

1998

Object number

2015.34

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photograph of five teenage girls sitting together. Mare-de-Gras. Adjacent to Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street. 3 of the girls are also shown in 2015.35.

Associated Person

Colin O'Brien (Photographer)

Material

Photo

Exhibition Label

From the exhibition 'People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s - 2000s' [4 October 2016 - 21 January 2017]

Hackney Shows

Hackney has hosted many of its own carnivals, such as the Mare de Gras, De Beauvoir Carnival and the 1973 Street Carnival Theatre run by Centerprise. African and Caribbean families were finding ways to share their Black British identities by participating in and shaping these festivals and shows.

Dancing Girls, Mare-de-Gras (1998) by Colin O’Brien

Credit line

Copyright retained by the photographer, Colin O'Brien.

On display?

No