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It's the final week of 'Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post', featuring vintage prints from gettyarchive, which is showing at the Peltz Gallery birbeckuni, London, until 5th July.⁠ Produced as part of the year long insidersoutsiders festival, which pays tribute to the refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe and their impact on British culture, this timely exhibition features over sixty images by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, shooting for Picture Post.⁠ The magazine's unrivalled popularity and anti-fascist editorial stance is regarded as a crucial moment in British photojournalism, its photo-essay format and innovative layouts still highly influential today.⁠ With a focus on the Kindertransport and Windrush-era migrations, as well as on lesser-known histories of wartime African-American women Red Cross volunteers, and post-war child Holocaust survivors who found refuge in the Lake Distr...

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