About The Show

The Photographers' Gallery has launched its new digital programme with Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, an exhibition devoted to this overlooked image format native to the web and the computer screen. The exhibition features over 40 GIF images by practitioners from a range of creative disciplines. For many, this was their first opportunity to experiment with the medium. The resulting GIFs range from the graphic to the photographic, the subtle to the psychedelic, and demonstrate a wide diversity of approaches which respond to the GIF's particular history and aesthetic qualities. The GIFs on this website are also viewable on The Wall, a 2.7 x 3m Sharp Video Wall located on the ground floor of our gallery in Ramillies Street, London. From 17th June, these works will be joined by a rotating selection of submissions from the public. Instructions on how to contribute can be found here. More information and images of The Wall can be found here.

The Gif Makers

After receiving a BA in English Literature at Newcastle University, Giulietta Verdon-Roe moved to NYC to study at the International Center of Photography. She then worked as a photographer and Assistant Photo Editor at the Village Voice, America’s largest weekly newspaper. Later she worked as an Assistant Black and White Printer to Master Printer Teresa Engle Moreno, working with negatives by photographers such as Robert Capa and Bruce Davidson. Giulietta is currently based in London and her personal work focuses on a long-term documentary in Orkney, Scotland.

After receiving a BA in English Literature at Newcastle University, Giulietta Verdon-Roe moved to NYC to study at the International Center of Photography. She then worked as a photographer and Assistant Photo Editor at the Village Voice, America’s largest weekly newspaper. Later she worked as an Assistant Black and White Printer to Master Printer Teresa Engle Moreno, working with negatives by photographers such as Robert Capa and Bruce Davidson. Giulietta is currently based in London and her personal work focuses on a long-term documentary in Orkney, Scotland.

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