Bishopsgate Institute's Queer Archive and the Photography of Kink

The Bishopsgate Institute near Liverpool Street in London holds one of the most extensive queer and kink photography archives anywhere, built over 20 years by archivist Stefan Dickers. The collection includes physique photography, gay press imagery from publications like Him and Guys, and materials from the 1987-1990 Operation Spanner police investigation. Photography historian Annebella Pollen gets a guided look at how the archive documents queer visual culture across several decades.