Serena made many self-portraits, often to test film or equipment. This print has '1600 ASA shade in 4' (written in roman numerals). Notice on the wall is written 'god exists she is black'. This photograph is taken in Serena's studio address: Flat…
From the late 1960s onwards Serena Wadham became increasingly interested in feminism and women's issues, and the archive contains many pictures of political meetings and demonstrations, portraits of feminist personalities, and images of women at…
Photos of squats and occupations from late 1960s, including Guildford School of Art, University of London Union (Jan. 1969), Hornsey College (Jan. 1969); also rallies and demonstrations by the National Front, the Monday Club (May 1970), CND,…
City of London, views and street scenes; the Barbican; some Islington scenes. Miscellaneous street scenes, café interiors &c, mostly Islington. 1970s-80s.
Victoria Station (1965); Hampstead Heath: Ladies' Pond (1974), views and tree studies (1976); campaign in support of Charlie Welsh and his animals at Corrall Rd, Islington (c. 1977).
Urban views, mainly in Islington and other parts of North London, many taken to test cameras or lenses.
Brown folder 4/1 of Islington views, with selection of local government publications, late 1970s. Also shots of St Paul's, railway installations…
Having originally trained as a professional musician, Serena Wadham retained a lifelong interest in music and undertook numerous related assignments, involving personalities such as Yehudi Menuhin, Elizabeth Lutyens, Gwyneth Jones, Richard Rodney…
One of Serena Wadham's earliest non-Cornish assignments was a study of Jewish education, for which she took numerous pictures, evidently in May-June 1965, at yeshivas in Gateshead and Sunderland, and at the Hasmonean Grammar School and other schools…