On 1 February 1910 Sir Winston Churchill visited three newly opened ’Labour Exchanges’ – forerunner to the modern day Jobcentre – in Hackney, Stepney and Camberwell.

The innumerable works of art in Germany commemorating its absent and lost after the holocaust are the themes of a new photographic exhibition at Croydon Clocktower, called Absence and Loss/Forgive and Do Not Forget.

‘Frozen moments’ of their daily life, captured through sensory photography techniques, is what blind and visually impaired Africans and Afro-Caribbeans of South London, share with us in the exhibition ‘Sights Unseen’, hosted at the Association of Photographers Gallery in Hackney.

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide is the theme of the exhibition “Heroes of our Time: Rwandan Courage and Survival” at Oxford House in Bethnal Green. The walls are filled with photographs and testimonies of four  survivors of the genocide: Simeon Karamaga, Daphrose Mukangarambe, Cassien Mbamba and Ange Cendrine Mukayites.