The Gareth Gardner Gallery is set to host Boundary Conditions: Reframing the Pepys Estate, an exhibition that combines freshly commissioned photography with graphics and archival material. The exhibition coincides with the 2023 Deptford X art festival.

The exhibition draws inspiration from influential Manplan editorial programme, which ran between 1969 and 1970. It also marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Pepys Estate’s construction in 1973.

The exhibition offers a contemporary perspective on the estate while delving into its fluctuating fortunes.

The Deptford estate was inaugurated by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1966 and received significant attention in the September 1970 Manplan issue, featuring monochromatic reportage photographs by Tony Ray-Jones. The magazine described the Pepys Estate as both “monumental in intention” and “socially monolithic.”

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