One of the main reasons for the existence of the BPPA is to promote news photography and one of the best ways to do that is to give pictures a chance to be seen in their own right. In the late 1980s the Association produced a series of three books and exhibitions called "Assignments" and when we became active again at the beginning of 2003 one of our priorities was to revive that tradition.

In May 2003 we were handed a chance to hold an exhibition in a central London Gallery at very short notice. In a little under three weeks we had formed an exhibitions sub-committee, called for and received a large number of submissions and put the exhibition together. UNSEEN featured 90 photographs that had never been see before. Many of them had beeen overlooked by picture editors, some were shot as part of private projects and others had been too late for deadlines. All of the images were top class and the exhibition opened on time with not one but two private views and an impressive catalogue.

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