Jo Spence exhibition at the Peltz Gallery
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Wednesday 17 June 2026
(2pm to 3.30pm) - Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
- Lecturer: Patrizia di Bello
This is a special opportunity for a tour with Professor Patrizia di Bello of The Project Remains Incomplete: Jo Spence, Curated by Terry Dennett, a restaging of an exhibition curated in 2008 for a photo therapy conference in Turku, Finland. Dennett (1938-2018) nurtured the educational and artistic legacy of Jo Spence (1934-1992) an important feminist photographer, writer, cultural worker and photo therapist, after her death from leukaemia. The title of the exhibition comes from Dennett’s own reflections about Spence’s unfinished Final Project. This restaging, curated by a group of students and staff at Birkbeck, includes material and voices not included in the original exhibition, made possible by the acquisition by Birkbeck of Spence’s archive.
Lecturer
Patrizia Di Bello is Professor of History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre and looks after the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive. She is editor-in-chief of History of Photography. She has written on different aspects of women’s engagement with photography as practitioners, collectors and writers, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Ana Mendieta and Jo Spence. Her publications Sculptural Photographs from The Calotype to Digital Technologies (Bloomsbury 2017), The Photobook from Talbot to Ruscha (IB Tauris, 2012), edited with Colette Wilson and Shamoon Zamir, and Women’s Albums and Photography in Victorian Britain: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts (Ashgate 2007).
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