If you’re not a regular Runoff reader (and if not, we kind of feel sorry for you), you’ll be aware that it is with a heavy heart that we recommend activities outside of our anointed patch. But recommend we are, and it the retrospective show of Bert Hardy at the Photographer’s Gallery, and we wrote about the man last year.

For many years Hardy worked for Picture Post magazine and his speciality was war photography. In between war work, Hardy would return to his native Southwark to photograph everyday life in post WWII Elephant and Castle. This culminated in his most celebrated tome of work ‘Scenes from the Elephant’, published in 1949. While this show is about his entire oeuvre of work, there are a number of photos from ‘Scenes’ 

Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace is on now until 2 June. Admission is a spiffy £6.50 also also gains you admission to the Deutsche Bourse Photography prize and some other thrilling bits of photo fun. And if the concept of the West End is daunting and bleak, the Gallery is just around the corner from the equally bleak Oxford Circus tube, but worth it.