17th June 2025
- 8th August 2025
10am - 4pm
Exhibitions
Forthcoming Exhibitions
The exhibition shines photographic light on great moments in the long struggle of working people for democracy and social justice. The aim of the project, through re-imagining those events, is to reproduce important historical scenes involving the dissenters, radicals, revolutionaries, and non-conformists who have so often been hidden from the very history they made. It covers such subjects as the Peasants’ Revolt (1381), the Women Levellers’ Movement (1647), the Swing Riots (1830), the London Chartists (1842), the Peterloo Massacre (1819), the Great Derby Lockout (1833-4), and Sikh RAF volunteers in World War Two.
Each scene is carefully planned and lit, using local community enactors. To create these amazing images, Saunders has brought together the talents of a wide range of professionals and craftspeople, alongside an enthusiastic cast of volunteers who share his vision. Despite their complexity and epic scale, no ‘artificial intelligence’ or CGI (computer-generated imagery) has been used in creating the works in The Hidden Project.
Generally speaking, The Hidden Project’s subject matter ends with the invention of photography in the 1840s.
