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Recollections: photographs of Philip Jones Griffiths was at the National Conservation Centre from 17 October 2008 to 13 April 2009. Please note that this exhibition has now closed.

Ban the Bomb enactment showing casualties, London, 1962

Photograph of a soldier smoking at the top of steps strewn with what appear to be dead bodies, with the River Thames in the background

Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos.
Courtesy of the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation

"A group of people adopted positions of death along the Thames Embankment early one Sunday morning. A bemused soldier paused to observe the event."

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