Free entry
Sat 7 Feb, 11am-1.30pm
Creative Studio
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
This event is free and drop-in, with no booking required.
Access requirements
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
This is a free, drop-in event which takes place in the Clore Creative Studio on the 3rd floor, accessible by lift or stairs.
This event lasts approximately 2.5hours.
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Transport
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
In the spirit of community darkroom cultures, Four Corners present an open access drop-in, delving into the self-organising histories of the movement, the current landscape of community darkrooms across London, and the chance to get involved in some analogue photography experiments.
Formed in East London in 1975, the Half Moon Photography Workshop – based in Four Corners’ current home at 121 Roman Road – was a radical photography collective who saw photography as a tool for activism and social change. They sought to open up access to image-making, producing exhibitions by emerging photographers, publishing an influential magazine called Camerawork, and running a gallery and community darkroom.
Using these histories as their starting point, Four Corners want to amplify the legacy and ongoing culture of community darkrooms, from their radical roots in the 70s and 80s to the self-organised networks thriving across London today.
No photography experience required.
This is an open and informal drop-in, with three activities for visitors to engage with and move between freely. Our spaces have limited capacities, so we recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment. We may operate a waitlist or entry on a one-in, one-out basis, subject to demand.
This event accompanies our exhibition Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.
Flick through selected materials from Four Corners’ Half Moon Photography Workshop archive collection, which chronicles the histories, stories, and practices of the collective and their connections to the wider community darkroom movement.
Check out the Four Corners community noticeboard, featuring posters, flyers, zines, and postcards from community darkrooms currently operating across London, with the opportunity to add your own local, photography communities, spaces, and networks to the map too.
Nodding to one of Half Moon Photography Workshop’s exhibitions comprising of ‘found’ photographs discarded by developing labs and left in the darkroom, participants will collage together archival materials with photographs and negatives left behind at Four Corners’ darkroom to create their own unique cyanotype prints.
Materials are limited for the cyanotype collages, so we recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment. We may operate a waitlist on the day, subject to demand.
Four Corners is a longstanding East London cultural centre dedicated to community-focused film and photography. Our mission is to make creative media more accessible by bringing art and politics together through our gallery, training programmes, and darkrooms.
Four Corners was founded in 1973 by four film students as one of the UK’s first independent film workshops, renowned for its collective and experimental filmmaking. Our story is closely connected with the Half Moon Photography Workshop – our neighbours throughout the 1970s and 80s – with shared roots in the radical, collaborative spirit of image-making that was sparking across East London at the time. Today, the archives of these influential collectives can be explored through Four Corners Archive.
We continue to champion equal access to the arts, supporting artist development, local communities, and small businesses. We deliver training for underrepresented groups, offer affordable studio spaces, and host a dynamic programme of exhibitions, workshops, and events.
