North: Fashioning Identity, on show in central London, explores how life in the north inspired a generation of creativesA new exhibition celebrating the north of England and northerners’ influence on photography, fashion and art will open at Somerset House in London on Wednesday. These will sit alongside social documentary film and photography, which highlight how the realities of life in the north of England captured in the mid-20th century continue to influence a new generation of creatives. “In the mid-2000s, there was a resurgence of interest in work that explicitly referenced northern England,” Murray told the British Journal of Photography. “If you say ‘northern England’ to someone, they have a visual idea of what it looks like and that’s been encouraged by fashion photography. North: Fashioning Identity runs from 8 November to 4 February 2018 at Somerset House in the Strand.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2017 20:26 UTC