Peckham’s cultural and creative projects
Underexposed
After 10 years the Franklyn Rodgers’ Underexposed exhibition, displayed on the hoardings at Eagle Wharf in Peckham, is being dismantled so they can be preserved and displayed at a new Peckham location. The portraits are currently being restored and will be re-housed as part of a new arts project with £15,000 Cleaner Greener Safer (CGS) funding from Southwark Council.
Following some damage caused by recent bad weather, we've removed the stunning portraits from Peckham Hill Street for safekeeping while work begins on the construction of the new Mountview Theatre School. We want to reassure residents that we're working to secure them a new local home. We've secured CGS funding from Peckham and Livesey ward members to restore and maintain the hoardings for the future.
Whilst we’re sad to see them move on from this site, we’re excited to be welcoming Mountview Theatre School to Peckham and hope it will inspire more local people to follow in the footsteps of the famous faces depicted on the hoardings.
Following the success of Underexposed, we're working with Franklyn on a second project to develop an exciting new work for Peckham Square. We'll be announcing more details regarding this and the future of the Underexposed exhibition in due course.
Underexposed is an outdoor portrait photography exhibition delivered as part of 2006/7’s 4 The Record initiative. It was a response to the necessity of raising the profile and celebrating the immense talent and achievements of Black British actors. Photographer Franklyn Rodgers was commissioned by the support of Southwark council, Decibel and Arts Council England, to make portraits of thirty black actors.
Franklyn Rodgers has established a reputation for creating striking and unique portraits that explore cross cultural representation and identity in an accessible and powerful way. Rodgers was the recipient of a fellowship from:
- NESTA
- National Endowment for Science
- Technology and the Arts
- exploring photographic practice
- race and ethnicity
He's exhibited in the UK, Europe and America. His first monograph, The Philosophy of Strangers (2007), presents portraits of artists, writers and cultural commentators.
Page last updated: 10 August 2017
