Has The Photographers’ Gallery got a spare £60k down the back of the sofa?
Written by David WhiteSurely it has, Surely. It’s just been awarded 2.7 million quids to continue it’s work over the next three years.
Meanwhile, however, Side Gallery in Newcastle, the only gallery in the country dedicated to documentary photography, is to have all of it’s funding cut, in a
” profoundly stupid, culturally illiterate and illogical decision.”
I’ve had a quick Google-Fu, and found that on average, Side gallery received about £60k a year for the past few years. 60piddlingk.
Now, what about it, TPG? If you really care about photography, surely you can throw a few coppers up north? To help out a collective
£60k. Sod all. Hardly even a year’s ‘entertaining’ bill for TPG. Come on TPG, put your money where your mouth is, sod the canapés and the bubbly and save Side Gallery.
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Discussion (2 Comments)
I’m pretty shocked about this. It’s the only photogallery in Newcastle, and the only docu one till maybe as far south as HOST. Even so, with such a long legacy, low costs, strong image, I thought it was a joke that they had ALL their funding cut. Don’t know, if they have fucked up in some way I could see that some of their funding would go, but by far I know they do a good job. I guess now people from the North East will have to go to the Midlands to see photography. I guess in London terms that would be as if people from Brixton would have to go to Westminster.