JRF’s first photography exhibition launched

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has launched its first public photography exhibition to celebrate what it describes as ‘the strength and resilience of people swept into poverty’

by Rebecca Hardy 6th March 2020

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has launched its first public photography exhibition showing people living on the breadline in Britain. Picture Britain: Our People, Our Poverty, which opened in Borough Market in London on 20 February, features twenty portraits by award-winning photographer Jillian Edelstein after she asked participants: ‘What is the one thing you could not live without?’