SOLUM: Jim Brogden photographs 2007-2025
- Date: Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00 – 17:00
- Location: University of Leeds
- Interval: Every day
- Until: Monday 16 March 2026
- Cost: Visit the gallery's website for more details
The exhibition will reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours
Please note this exhibition will take place at Galerie la Vieille Poste in Larroque, Occitaine, France
The title of Dr Jim Brogden’s retrospective photographic exhibition, SOLUM, evokes both the meditative solitude of the photographer’s creative research practice and a profound engagement with terrain—its strata, and the often-unseen narrative palimpsests embedded within. It speaks to what lies beneath: the overlooked histories and the fragile weave of personal and collective memory.
The White Horse (2023) by Dr Jim Brogden. Photo credit: Dr Jim Brogden
This curated selection of works, created between 2007 and 2025, traces the evolution of Brogden’s longitudinal iterative practice across a range of resonant landscapes: the eroded coastlines of East Yorkshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk; the literary terrains surrounding Haworth; and the often-neglected urban environments of Lille and Leeds. Together, they reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours.
His curious tenacity in seeing the development of these connected regions provides important insights into how we value and use space that might be seen as an edgeland. It is in these spaces, as with all aspects of life, that creativity, and different ways of being flourish, and need to be recognised as valuable and important to our cultural ecosystem.
SOLUM: Jim Brogden photographs 2007-2025 will run from 24 February until 16 March 2026.
Spurn Point (2018) by Dr Jim Brogden. Photo credit: Dr Jim Brogden
Dr Jim Brogden FRSA is Associate Professor in Creative Practice in the School of Media and Communication.
For further information, contact: j.w.brogden@leeds.ac.uk, visit the gallery’s website, www.galerielavieilleposte.org or follow the gallery on Instagram: @galerie_la_vieille_poste
Main image: Contre Jour (2017) by Dr Jim Brogden. Photo credit: Dr Jim Brogden