A special archive display celebrating the renowned photography journal Ten.8 and its wider influence. 

Launched in 1978, Ten.8 provided a forum for West Midlands-based photographers to come together and share images and ideas. It was described by the Jamaican scholar Professor Stuart Hall as “the journal which has most systematically explored the relationship between how we represent the world photographically, the knowledge which these images produce and their implications for power and politics”. 

The exhibition focuses on two editions of Ten.8, Black Image (1984) and Body Politics (1987), both produced in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery. Alongside material from the Gallery's archive, Ten.8 in Focus illustrates how the journal explored the importance of photography and how images are inscribed with meaning.