Robert Capa: Death in the Making

Death in the Making will not only feature images from the numerous conflicts he captured on the ground – including the civil wars of Spain and Cambodia, D-Day and The Liberation of Paris, and the First Indo-China War – but also rare printed works from Gallery Owner Ben Burdett’s private collection. 

The very camera that launched Capa’s career, capturing some of the most momentous reportage photographs of our time, including his first assignment to photograph Leon Trotsky’s ‘In Defence of October’ speech in Denmark in 1932, will also be on display, in addition to important early prints of images shot with the camera. The rare Leica was acquired by ATLAS Gallery for a client at a specialist collectors’ auction in Vienna in 2012. 

Ben Burdett says: “It is indeed a rare honour to host such an exhibition. Capa’s unique mixture of energy, devil-may-care bravery, humanitarian concern and enormous charisma has always been a massive inspiration to me.”