An exhibition of film and photography exploring Alzheimer’s disease from the dual perspectives of sufferer and carer.

As the social, emotional and welfare costs of Alzheimer’s disease gain prominence, and with the number of sufferers predicted to reach one million by 2025, exploring the ways in which the disease affects the lives of the sufferers and those around them becomes an ever more important task. Responding to this the O3 Gallery in partnership with TORCH present That Other Place, an exhibition exploring Alzheimer’s disease in its various neuropathological manifestations, from the dual perspectives of sufferer and carer.

Highlights of the exhibition include Fausto Podovini’s photographic series MIRELLA, which won World Press Photo in 2013. These images chart the decline of the eponymous Mirella’s husband, Luigi, who began to show symptoms of Alzheimer’s aged 65. Mirella cared for Luigi for six years, including during the final year of his life when Luigi no longer recognised his wife. Hayley Morris’s stop motion film UNDONE, winner of the Slamdance Award 2009, poignantly evokes the progressive loss of memory and identity in an Alzheimer’s sufferer. Woodstock-based Nicola Onions presents a series which endeavours to enable an audience, who may not have been affected by dementia, to connect, translate and consider personal existence, ageing and memories.

The gallery can be found at the Oxford Castle Quarter and is open Tues-Fri 12-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-4pm and is closed Mondays.