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Craig Williams

Glasgow gallery to host exhibition of work by celebrated Scottish photographer Oscar Marzaroli


A three-month long exhibition of the work of celebrated Scottish photographer Oscar Marzaroli
 is to be held by gallery in Glasgow from December this year.

Street Level Photoworks, based in Trongate 103 in the Merchant City, will play host to a celebration the talent of Marzaroli - arguably Scotland’s most notable documentary photographer.

The acclaimed Italian-born photographer captured Glasgow and its people at a time of great social change in the 50s, 60s and 70s, when city slums were being cleared to make way for new social housing.

Many of the black and white images depict children playing in the streets, and many simply capture the city in bygone days - with some of his most well known images detailing Glasgow's Gorbals community in the 1960s.

Flower Seller at Copeland's Corner, 1968 (Oscar Marzaroli)

His death in 1988, at the age of 55, left a huge body of work - with more than 50,000 photographs taken by him have recently been donated to Glasgow Caledonian University.

The exhibition will embrace Marzaroli's work as both a photographer and filmmaker documenting Glasgow as well as all over Scotland and further afield.

Oscar Marzaroli runs from December 7, 2019 to March 15, 2020. 

Admission is free. 

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