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36-38 Great Castle Street
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Sara Shamsavari, Image from Beauty Untold: Portraits from the Street, Courtesy the artist
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Opens Monday Dec 1, 2008 (6–9pm)
2 Dec 2008 – 13 Dec 2008
Mondays–Fridays (9am–10pm)
Saturdays (9am–9pm)
Sundays (11:30am–6pm)
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Tube: Oxford Circus
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For this one-off exhibition at the Topshop flagship store on Oxford Street, British-Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari shot portraits of people she encountered on the street. The collection celebrates the diversity of the capital's cosmopolitan denizens and their many shapes, hues and sizes. It also highlights forms of beauty that rarely get a mention in the image-conscious, celebrity-obsessed mainstream of society. Shamsavari, whose work often carries acute socio-political messages, has previously photographed artists such as Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Outlandish and Dilated Peoples.
