If there is one show to visit right now, I would suggest PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA PHOTOGRAPHS (1975- 2012) of Street photography, Hustlers and Pole-dancers showing at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, February 14th to June 1st. The photographs displayed on a large scale over 4 decades are stunning and every bit a stage in which we the viewer are invited in to form a relationship with the characters.
The work for me demonstrates a strong narrative, a theatre of a somewhat static backdrop that is built up with a stage of people going about their daily business, note here that the people are themselves, not actors; the composition, lighting and placement of characters has been carefully thought out prior to taking the picture.
In Hustlers, each picture title depicts name, age, hometown and how much Dicorica paid the male prostitutes for their portraits to be taken. The setting in which the men are placed is very interesting, the relationship being a voyeuristic one. The invitation is more removed, yet there is a sense of desire, a fascination to keep looking...the power being theirs and not ours. 
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