This display presents a selection of photographs, documents and objects which relate to the lives and experiences of Turkish migrant workers in Western Europe, particularly first-generation ‘guest workers’ living in Germany through the 1960s and 1970s.
This display highlighted the work of Ellen Ettlinger (1902–1994), a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime, and who settled in Oxford.
This exhibition reassembled material and visual culture that survives from the Calais ‘Jungle’ as it existed from March 2015 to the demolitions of 2016.
Surveying the Nagas: Visual Representations of India’s Northern Hill-Tribes in the R. G. Woodthorpe Collection
This display presented a selection of material from the Pitt Rivers Museum’s R. G. Woodthorpe collection, much of which has never before been on public view.
This exhibition focused on six of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s most important female collectors and their fieldwork carried out between 1910 and the late 1950s.
Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma
The Tibetan photographer Nyema Droma, taking inspiration from the Museum’s historic collections, created portraits of other young Tibetans that celebrate their experience and challenge stereotypes.
‘Uganda Stories’ by Sunil Shah was both a subjective journey to recollect the past and a study in photography’s documentary potential to reassemble history.
This exhibition presented a selection of photographs showing Marshal Josip Broz Tito taken during official visits to various African countries in the post-war period.
Camel: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes – Photographs by Roger Chapman
This exhibition presented sixty-five monochrome prints by Roger Chapman from his major international photography project premiered at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Embroidered Visions: Photographs of Central Asia and the Middle East by Sheila Paine
This exhibition presented a selection of photographs taken by textile expert Sheila Paine during her travels in Central Asia and the Middle East in the late 1980s and 1990s.
This exhibition presented a selection of photographs by Akio Kushida and Stephanie Berger on kabuki theatre, the popular Japanese style of drama established around 400 years ago that still thrives today.
Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum
This display presented a selection of historic images – including photographs, drawings and published material – relating to the Haida totem pole on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Points of Departure: Photographs from Senegal by Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax
Looking at the transatlantic slave trade and contemporary migration, photographers Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax examined migration in West Africa in this photographic exhibition.
Surviving Tsunami: Photographs in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake
This exhibition presented visual material from a volunteer-led project in Japan to salvage and conserve historic photograph collections after two museums and a library in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, were destroyed in the 2011 tsunami.
A photographic memoir of the life of Kaddu Wasswa, born in 1933 in Ngangwa Village, near Mukono Town, Uganda. His story gives an insight into twentieth-century Ugandan history.
