About

About 

Future Hackney is a social profit organisation that combines documentary and co-authorship to create a hybrid genre of photographic storytelling. Our exhibitions are inclusive, working at the intersections of photography and social engagement. Based in East London, we document Dalston’s history and present communities, alongside protests, carnivals, street culture and urban heritage. We are a grass roots led initiative, who use digital and analogue mediums to tell stories and through street and documentary photography. We create photographs, oral histories, reminisces, community dialogues, street galleries, living archives, online platforms, social media, print and press. We facilitate young people and vulnerable residents in our intergenerational creative, skill-based workshops, whilst producing a professional photographic archive. 

We are currently in production for our next inside exhibition and street gallery in Dalston. 

From Churches to Nightclubs – Dalston’s Radical History   

Scheduled for October 24 – October 25, you can find info on our Instagram @futurehackney

The new work builds on our existing archive of the Caribbean and African communities with new images and stories, unfolding how these groups created a radical space. Paving the way for the Dalston strip, where a myriad of night venues, cultures and communities create a new space that welcomes marginalised and bohemian groups, such as the queer community and emerging artists and young creatives. 

Gillett Square Stories An ongoing photographic Story of Dalston’s Carribean and African communities, now exhibiting at The Red Cross Building Dalston Lane E8 1NG 

‘A space of radical black history’: Dalston’s Gillett Square


Future Hackney is produced by Don Travis and Wayne Crichlow in association with Innercity Films.  We partner with other creative organisations, individual artists, freelance professionals and local volunteers. 


We are funded and supported by a range of organisations including The Community Fund, Awards For All, Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England, The Weavers Company, Create London, Freelands Foundation, East End Community Foundation, Museum of London, Autograph Gallery, Hackney Council, Near Neighbours, City Bridge Trust, Uk Youth, The Red Cross, National Rail, Tower Hamlets Council, Hackney Archives, and Hackney Museum.