ABOUT
British Culture Archive is a leading independent archive and non-profit organisation set up to document, highlight, and preserve the changes in British culture and society through documentary photography. Founded by Paul Wright in 2017, BCA was born out of a genuine passion for photography and a mission to make world-class documentary photography accessible and engaging to people from all backgrounds.
Our online galleries, print collections, and touring exhibitions showcase and champion British documentary photography from post-war Britain to the present day.
BCA publishes and exhibits photography from renowned photographers, as well as unearthing and giving a global platform to photography that has been previously unseen or overlooked. Our archive contains socially and culturally important images, ranging from the 1960s mod scene, Northern Soul, and punk to Thatcher’s Britain, social housing, acid house, and more.