How three Magnum photographers saw Clerkenwell

There are so many ways to capture Clerkenwell in photography. Nothing brought this home to me more than when I visited Magnum Print Room in Gee Street way back in July 2017.

For more than 70 years Magnum has been creating the world renowned, photographic content of the very highest quality, documenting most of the world’s major events and personalities since the 1930s. It has offices in Paris, New York and London, where it’s based here in Clerkenwell. (Magnum have kindly offered advice and help with this local competition too.)

In 2017, Magnum’s Live Lab exhibition showed the work of three photographers who’d been in residency in Clerkenwell. Mark Power, Carl de Keyzer and Olivia Arthur worked alongside each other and Museum of London curator Anna Sparham, over a two week period, taking shots around Clerkenwell and transforming the Print Room into a working lab, printing and editing on site.

The exhibition then showed three very different takes on the area.

This short film beautifully captures the process.

https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/watch-live-lab-london/

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