Who is this person, looking directly at you? Is he a vision of masculine muscle? Or a fragile soul, wrapped in their own insecurities? The photography is on display in exhibition opening next week in London.

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography looks at how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. In the wake of #MeToo the image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society. The show charts the often complex, and sometimes contradictory, representations of masculinities, and how they developed and evolved over time.