Review Feature: Lives Less Ordinary | Forty Years of the Camden Society | Jackson's Lane | learning disabilities | Robin Robertson

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Published: 21 May 2009

Joan, one of the Lives Less Ordinary

Lives less ordinary captured on camera

OVER the past four decades the Camden Society has worked with and supported hundreds of people with learning disabilities, launching careers and making dreams come true.
These lives now form the subject of a photography exhibition at Jackson’s Lane by Robin Robertson, who has documented the members of the Camden Society for more than 10 years in hundreds of pictures.
Though the exhibition deals with just a small cross-section of these, robertson hopes it reflects the bigger picture.
“The term ‘learning disabilities’ whilst being very broad in definition is often portrayed in a narrow and one-dimensional way,” he says.
“This series of portraits hopes to reflect and celebrate the social and cultural diversity of the people photographed.”
SIMON WROE
• Lives Less Ordinary: Forty Years of the Camden Society is at Jackson’s Lane, 269a Archway Road, N6, until July 5. Admission free.

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The Lenkiewicz exhibition is stunning from the remarkable St Eustace sculpture to the drawings featuring unicorns, tigers and Elvis! The skeletons and skulls were my particular favourite along with the octopus drowning the Titanic. The surroundings are fabulous; the Pite architecture lends itself so well to the mood. I admit I have a particular fondness for
the building having worked there for 26 years.
J. Trend-Hill

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