Exhibition: Dorothy Bohm: Sixties London

An exhibition of photos of 1960s London taken by the photographer, Dorothy Bohm.

Bohm's interest in photography started when she was handed a Leica camera as a parting gift by her father as she was fleeing Nazi controlled Europe and emigrating to the UK.
After studying photography in Manchester and travelling in the USA, Europe and Mexico with her husband, they settled in Hamstead in 1956, when her husband was posted to London for work.

Since then, she photographed the London of the swinging 60s, but more often of the ordinary working people of the city, the labourers, handymen, schoolchildren, all away from the bright lights of media dominated Soho.

"Almost every area had its own character and I knew I was undertaking a very difficult task," says Bohm about her decision to photograph London in the 1960s.

She was closely involved with the founding of the Photographers' Gallery in London in 1971 and was its Associate Director for fifteen years. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009.The temporary exhibition shows off some of her favourite photographs.