Boundary Conditions: Reframing the Pepys Estate

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More than 50 years after documentary photographer Tony Ray-Jones captured iconic images of Deptford’s brutalist Pepys Estate for The Architectural Review, a group of image-makers has returned to explore aspects of contemporary life at the groundbreaking housing scheme.
 

New works by: Jérôme Favre, Gareth Gardner, Tim George, Freddie Miller, Danilo Murru. 

Archive works by: Steve Burden, Rob Kenyon, Dr Tim Livsey and James Price

Wallpaper* featured in 'This Month's Best London Architecture Exhibitions'
'The show is inspired by the The Architectural Review's seminal Manplan editorial programme of 1969–1970 – and gives it a 21st century twist.' 

'Through words and images, Boundary Conditions beautifully reveals how social, political, and cultural contexts have played out against the architecture over the decades.' Veronica Simpson writing for Recessed Space

'With so much development in east and south-east London, it's easy to always focus on the new. Change is a compelling subject, and there's a lot of it about. That's why projects such as Boundary Conditions: Reframing the Pepys Estate are so important.' Jon Massey, Wharf Life

Gareth Gardner Gallery – the UK’s only gallery dedicated to photography of architecture and place – will host Boundary Conditions, an exhibition combining newly-commissioned photography with film, graphics and archive material. The exhibit is showing as part of the 2023 Deptford X art festival.  

Inspired by The Architectural Review’s seminal Manplan editorial programme of 1969–1970, the project also commemorates the completion of construction of the estate 50 years ago, in 1973. The exhibition provides a series of contemporary perspectives of the estate, while also investigating how its fortunes have fluctuated through history.