Links and Further Reading

Image from ‘Women and Work’ 1975 shows women and children marching for chilcare. A child carries a placard reading "Parents must unite and fight", another reads "A nursery is my right"

Websites and articles

In Photography and Culture Na’ama Klorman-Eraq discusses the photographic and cultural activities of the Hackney Flashers.

Hackney Flashers featured by Photoworks, organisers of the Brighton Photo Biennial

Hackney Flashers on Wikipedia

‘Who’s Holding the Baby?’ on Museo Reine Sofia website

‘Women and Work, 1975’, article on the Hackney Flashers published in Aperture by Dr Noni Stacey – Community Photography: Radicalism and a Culture of Protest in the London-based Photography Collectives of the 1970s (PhD awarded 2017, University of the Arts London) – funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Hackney Flashers on Radical History of Hackney

Hackney Flashers in the Tate Archive, an article by Sabrina Mahfouz.

Flashing In Hackney: The Forgotten History Of London’s Radical Photography Collectives by Charlie Bird on The Quietus

Who Were The Hackney Flashers?, research paper by Julie Dring

Hackney Flashers member’s websites

Sally Greenhill             

Liz Heron

Christine Roche

About Hackney Flashers members

An Dekker

Michael Ann Mullen

Maggie Murray

Jo Spence

Relevant articles, books and catalogues

John Tagg, Angela Kelly and Paul Hill, Three Perspectives on Photography, Catalogue of Arts Council exhibition (London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979)

Liz Heron, Who’s still holding the camera? in ‘Photography Politics: One’, (London, Photography Workshop, 1979). Republished as ‘Quién se ocupa de la cámara?’ in Fotografía y activismo, ed. Jorge Luis Marzo, Editorial Gustavo Gili, (Barcelona, 2006).

Jo Spence: Beyond the Perfect Image, Photography, Subjectivity, Antagonism, 2005, on occasion of exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona October 27, 2005-January 15, 2006. Published Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Curators Jorge Ribalta and Terry Dennett

Matthew Higgs and Paul Noble, Protest and Survive exhibition catalogue, (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2000)

Derrick Price, ‘Surveyors and Surveyed’, in Wells, Liz (ed), Photography: A Critical Introduction, (London and New York: Routledge, 2004, Third Edition)

Caroline Douglas and Jill Constantine, Transmitter Receiver: The Persistence of Collage, catalogue of An Arts Council Collection exhibition,  Hayward Publishing, (London, 2011)

Jo Spence, Putting Myself in the Picture, (London, Camden Press, 1986)

John Walker, Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain, Walker, John A., (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002)

Val Williams, The Other Observers: Women Photographers in Britain 1900 to the Present, (London: Virago Press, 1986)

‘Hackney Flashers’ box file, at Women’s Art Slide Library, Goldsmiths Library


The Hackney Flashers website was developed with the assistance of Alex Stapleford.  

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