We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini | The Photographers’ Gallery

Video (3:06): Writer and curator, Hélène Giannecchini reflect on the shared work and built friendship with Donna Gottschalk that forms the basis for the ‘We Others’ exhibition.

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We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini
Fri 06 Mar 2026 – Sun 07 Jun 2026
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

We Others brings together Gottschalk’s queer photographs from the 1960s with texts by writer Hélène Giannecchini. The exhibition is accompanied by a book:

We Others
By Donna Gottschalk (photographs)、Hélène Giannecchini (text)
Hardcover
256 pages
202 x 250 mm
ISBN 9782365114486
English
Jun 2025

Donna Gottschalk (b.1949, New York) grew up in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s, where she spent much of her time on the streets. This backdrop, often of violence and homophobia, shaped her and the way she saw the world: raw, real and up close. Involved in the early lesbian, trans and gay rights movements, her intimate photographs of the daily lives of her chosen family – friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists – are a tender portrait of people living on the margins.