About the Exhibition
This is our June 2023 exhibition of photographs, archive materials, books, and films relating to Gypsy Roma and Traveller histories and cultures. It can be found in our exhibition space under the main Library staircase for the first half of the month.
It features the Appleby Horse Fair photographs of Brian Morgan MA, MBA, who is a fine art photographer and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. His Visual Essays on Gypsy and Circus Culture have previously been short-listed in the RPS International Photographic Awards 2020 and 2021. He also has a forthcoming book entitled ‘The Road to Appleby Fair’: A Study of Romany Gypsy Culture.
He “uses photography as a visual narrative for illuminating the life stories of those people who for economic, political, and social reasons find themselves cast to the periphery of society. He also seeks to illuminate the life stories of those whose worlds are for other reasons obscured from sight of the mainstream. His creative vision is forged in the idea that all of our lives are diminished by lack of inclusion and that every opportunity should be taken to use art as a bridge between having and not having, between ‘knowing’ and ‘not knowing’.”
