Kiln Theatre presents
Capturing Kilburn
By Roy Mehta
Photographic portraits of the businesses of the High Road behind them
Discover a series of portraits by Roy Mehta in shopfront windows along the High Road, celebrating the Kilburn business owners behind them. As these shopfronts are transformed into a public exhibition, celebrate the building, businesses and people of Kilburn from yesterday to the present day.
Participating businesses include Kilburn Cycles, MP Moran’s, Sadie’s Bridal, Ariana II and Folkie’s Music Shop.
Important Information
Suitable for all ages
Ticket Prices
Free
Dates
31 July – 15 August
Creatives
Roy Mehta
Photographer
Roy Mehta is a London-based documentary photographer and educator whose work explores identity, belonging, migration, family and the poetics of everyday life in multicultural Britain, revealing intimate moments of connection, memory and community within the rhythms of everyday life.
His practice is marked by a restrained visual style, often working with medium format photography, that emphasises gesture, atmosphere and empathy over spectacle. His projects, including Revival, London, Distant Relations, Coastline, Sixteen, The Garden, and Lockdown examine the poetics of everyday life and the complexities of diaspora experience.
His work has been widely exhibited, most notably in the recent major retrospective The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain and has been the subject of critical writing by curators and scholars such as Mark Sealy and Caryl Phillips.
His photographs are held in the permanent collections of Autograph, Historic England, The Library of Birmingham, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, and the IKS Collection, Germany.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at London College of Communication, UAL.
The Kilburn High Road Project has been made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund with thanks to National Lottery players.
