Exhibitions

Prejudice and Pride - A photographic exhibition

This exhibition can be hired out by schools, libraries, galleries, registered community and youth centres. 

Prejudice and Pride is jointly mounted by PM Gallery & House, and Autograph – The Association of Black Photographers. It is an archival photographic exhibition charting the arrival of British subjects from the West Indies in the 1940s and 1950s, who were recruited to help rebuild the 'Mother Country'.  

This important exhibition has toured throughout the UK and documents the 'decisive moment' which changed British society beyond recognition. It heralded decades of profound social and political change that was fear, ignorance and intolerance occasionally manifesting in the most ugly of public faces – unashamed racism and rampant nationalism.

The exhibition includes work by classic black and white documentary photographers such as Picture Post's Thurston Hopkins and Bert Hardy. The photographs are accompanied by their original captions, some of which contain text that serves as a poignant reminder of the level of social ignorance once explicit in British society. The exhibition also includes images of black service life in the British forces during the Second World War.

Copyright for all images remain with Hulton Getty Images at all times.