After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024

Bonington Gallery presents the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024. The group exhibition brings together working class artists who use photography to explore the nuances of life in all its diversity today, turning their gaze toward both their communities and out to the wider world.

After the End of History offers a picture of working-class life today; from Rene Matic’s portrait of growing up mixed race in a white working-class community in Peterborough, to Elaine Constantine's documentation of the Northern Soul scene, and JA Mortram’s documentation throughout his life of marginalised people while working as a caregiver.

Artists from the East Midlands include Kavi Pujara whose photographic project This Golden Mile is an ode to Leicester's Hindu community and Kelly O’Brien, raised in an Irish community in Derby, who explores themes of class identity, family and gender in her work.

Artists in the exhibition include; Richard Billingham, Sam Blackwood, Serena Brown, Antony Cairns, Rob Clayton, Joanne Coates, Josh Cole, Artúr Čonka, Elaine Constantine, Natasha Edgington, Richard Grassick, Anna Magnowska, Rene Matic, J A Mortram, Kelly O'Brien, Eddie Otchere, Kavi Pujara, Khadija Saye, Chris Shaw, Trevor Smith, Ewen Spencer, Hannah Starkey, Igoris Taran, Nathaniel Telemaque, Barbara Wasiak and Tom Wood.