| Description | Herbert Walters' exhibition "Portraits of Black Britain" opened at the Medicine Bakery and Gallery, New Street, Birmingham, on 1 September 2022. The images represent the 20 years the photographer spent documenting London and Birmingham's Black communities, including places where, usually, Black and white photographers could not go. Walters recounted that he adopted a 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary style to capture his subjects, noting that many people are suspicious of being photographed, and are different to those taken by similar Black British photographers like Vanley Burke and Charlie Phillips, where people were standing as Charlie or Vanley had asked permission to take the image. Walters stated the intention was to get a more candid image, capturing individuals operating in their 'natural state'. The exhibition run was extended several times and is currently (as of September 2025) installed in the Medicine Gallery as a permanent exhibition. The photographic material forming this part of the first deposit (MS 5183 Acc. 2025/042) comprised a memory stick (returned to the depositor) containing the digital photographs, catalogued as part of sub series MS 5183/3/1. Contents: 1 x printed catalogue signed by the photographer; 1 x USB memory stick containing 34 TIFF image files of the photographs. Total data size: 1.54 Gb. |