ABSTRACT
One of the pioneers of contemporary therapeutic photography in the UK, who has not received due recognition, is the Art and Drama teacher Keith Kennedy. Working at the Henderson Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s, Kennedy formulated what he called ‘Group Camera’ to use with patients in the psychiatric community there. He then taught these techniques to professional photographer Jo Spence, who he called in to assist. Their meeting can be seen as the key event for setting the scene for the subsequent later development in the UK of ‘Therapeutic Photography’, by Jo Spence and her various later collaborators.
