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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Steve McQueen photography exhibition offers fresh take on history of protest in Britain

Annie Kenney smiles as she is arrested by police officers
Images in the exhibition, at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, include one showing the arrest of Annie Kenney, a suffragette. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy

After retelling the story of the Blitz from a new angle, Steve McQueen’s next project is an alternative photographic history of protest and campaigning in Britain, spanning a century from the suffragettes to the Iraq war protests.

Resistance will open at Margate’s Turner Contemporary in February 2025, which the gallery’s director said would show how “photography has really acted as a kind of catalyst for change” in the UK.

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