“News flash – a century of images” is a journey through Nyhetsbyrån TT’s image archive, from 1921 to the present day. Mohamed Mire, exhibition producer at Fotografiska, calls the archive “an image treasure beyond the ordinary”. For 100 years, the news agency has delivered news to media all over Sweden. Fotografiska has chosen to show the news events that for a Swedish news consumer had a big impact in that particular period, or that have subsequently proven to be significant.
“We can never do the photographers’ work completely justice with 300 images, but what we can show is a string of events from history, moments of things we remember and things we reminisce about,” says Mire in a press release.
Today, TT Nyhetsbyrån’s image archive contains over 100 million still images, from the very first glass plates to paper copies, negatives and graphic material. Here you can see, among other things, the diversion to right-hand traffic, Olof Palme’s campaign speech from a truck bed in 1968, the Stureplan murders and the attacks in New York on September 11.
“TT is open 24/7 and thousands of images flow past our photo editor’s computers. Together with Fotografiska, selecting 100 years of news in pictures has been an exciting challenge,” says Tobias Röstlund, head of the TT News Agency.
The exhibition is made in collaboration with TT News Agency and runs from 21 October 2022 to 12 February 2023 at Fotografiska Stockholm.