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Heather McDonough: Online talk hosted by Jennifer Nash

    Thursday 20 May 19:00 via Zoom

    The Fur Coat from the series RePose © Heather McDonough

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    Photographer Heather McDonough’s story began in the US in Pennsylvania. Her family moved when she was a child and settled in East London where she has lived in Hackney for the past 28 years with her husband David and son Dexter.

    For nearly 30 years McDonough’s work has always been about community, family, memory and history. The themes present in her work are universal but all her projects stem from a personal place in her internal world. She has made work about urban life, exploring family life and making portraits of individuals living and working in the East End of London.

    Heather McDonough has exhibited with the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, the European Women’s Photography Award in Italy, The Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, Arles Photo Festival in France and the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam to name but a few. In London she has shown with Oxford House, the V&A Museum of Childhood, The Photographers Gallery, the Women’s Art Library, St. Georges Hospital Trust and the National Portrait Gallery.

    McDonough has been running workshops and leading community projects for local museums and galleries and she has been a lecturer for over twenty years. She has been a visiting lecturer in photography at many universities and has a colour darkroom by Columbia Road.

    I first met Heather McDonough, at what was formally known as the John Cass School of Art when she became my BA photography teacher in 2014.

    McDonough herself was a student at the Cass in the late eighties to early nineties, studying under her lecturer Mick Williamson. She also studied alongside our past speaker Susan Andrews and future speaker Rod Morris.

    Heather McDonough is a force of nature and is for sure, a photographer whose work provokes thought and reflection.

    Heather’s links

    Instagram: @HevPhoto

    https://www.heathermcdonough.com/vanishing-presence.html

    https://www.heathermcdonough.com/tend.html

    https://www.heathermcdonough.com/photobooth.html