On this page you will find updates of current exhibitions in London. Click on the image on the left for more information about each exhibition.
Blumenfeld Studio:
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Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2012The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhibition or publication format, which has significantly contributed to the medium of photography in Europe between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011.
Shortlisted this year: Pieter Hugo Rinko Kawauchi John Stezaker The Photographer's Gallery 16 – 18 Ramillies Street London W1F 7LW Tube: Oxford Circus 13 July - 9 September Cost: Free |
Residual Traces
A group exhibition curated by Bridget Coaker, Troika Editions. Residual Traces brings together six photographic projects, each of which has engaged with the consequences of the London 2012 Olympic Games coming to one of the most deprived areas of London, the Lea Valley.
Photofusion 17a Electric Lane London SW9 8LA Tube: Brixton 27 July – 7 September 2012 Cost: Free |
Another LondonInternational Photographers Capture City Life 1930 - 1980
Tate Britain Millbank London SW1P 4RG Tube: Pimlico / Westminster 27 July - 16 September 2012 Cost: £10 |
David Bailey's East EndDavid Bailey is one of east London’s most famous sons. Over the past 50 years, he has regularly returned to the stomping ground of his youth to photograph the streets and their inhabitants. This personal collection, set in an historic industrial building in London’s Royal Docks, sees him return to Newham at a time when the world’s focus is on east London. These photographs document the changing physical and social landscapes of the area from the early 1960s to the present day, with streetscapes, characters and scenes of east London life.
The exhibition focuses on three periods: the 1960s, the ’80s and recent years. Compressor House, Royal Docks, Dockside Road, Newham, London, E16 2QD Tube: Royal Albert DLR July 6 - August 5 2012 Cost: £6 / £4 |
My Grandad's Car
Sayed Hasan and IAMKSO have each travelled thousands of miles to Pakistan and Nigeria, in an attempt to bring their grandfathers’ cars to the UK. They wish to park them side-by-side in their country of birth, but it has been an unpredictable journey. Both cars – a fragile Beetle shell and a retired, unusable hulk – still await shipment, held up for reasons that reflect the politics and cultures of the countries they remain in. Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 London Tube: Heathrow January 26th - April 26th Cost: Free |
Wish You Were Here: A photographic Exhibition by Tim Allen & Pip Spratt
Halcot Gallery Hall Place Bourne Road Bexley Kent DA5 1PQ April 21st - May 20th 2012 Cost: Free |
Gillian Wearing: Film & Photography
Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX Tube: Aldgate East March 28th - June 17th 2012 Cost: Concessions £7.50 |
Jeremy Dellar: Joy in People
David Shrigley: Brain Activity Hayward GallerySouthbank Centre Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Tube: Waterloo February 1st - May 13th 2012 Cost: Concessions £8 |
All About Eve - The Photography of Eve Arnold
Art Sensus
Howick Place
London SW1P 1BB
Tube: Victoria
March 2nd - April 27th 2012
Cost: Free
Art Sensus
Howick Place
London SW1P 1BB
Tube: Victoria
March 2nd - April 27th 2012
Cost: Free
Photography Exhibitions
For details of current photography exhibitions, click on the link for the Viewfinder Photography Gallery website
Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism
This display explores photographs that make reference to themselves, other media and texts, and demonstrates how such Postmodernist approaches to photography have persisted for over 30 years. Spanning the mid-1970s to the present day, it shows work by some of the most influential artists associated with Postmodernism, such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, alongside more recent work by Anne Hardy, David Shrigley, Clare Strand and others. V&A Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL Tube: South Kensington 11 August - 27 September Cost: Free |
Vivian Maier: A Life Uncovered
This exhibition brings together 48 black & white and colour prints from the Chicago-based nanny who spent her spare time wandering the streets with her Rolleiflex, taking snapshots of street life around her. Photofusion 17a Electric Lane London SW9 8LA Tube: Brixton 29 July - 16 September 2011 Cost: Free |
Corinne Day: The Face
Corinne Day’s daring and provocative images burst into collective consciousness through the pages of The Face magazine in the early 1990s. This exhibition revisits some of Day’s earliest photographs created for The Face, a magazine which broke boundaries with its radical art direction, use of new fonts and page design; It attracted a select group of passionate writers, photographers and stylists who challenged the mainstream by actively giving focus to youth style, music and culture. The images Day produced for The Face caused an international sensation, launched the careers of numerous models and identified Day as a photographer of unique talent. Gimpel Fils Gallery 30 Davies Street London W1 4NB Tube: Bond Street 1 September - 1 October 2011 Cost: Free |
United Artists of Italy: Photographic Portraits
United Artists of Italy shows twentieth-century Italian art in a new light, presenting the artists through the eyes of some of Italy's most celebrated photographers. The exhibition reveals a visual profile of contemporary art and artists not through their artworks but through faces, poses and expressions. Some 85 photographs have been carefully selected from a collection of 250 portraits put together over a period of many years by Brescia-based contemporary art dealer Massimo Minini. Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art 39a Canonbury Square London N1 2AN Tube: Highbury & Islington 22June - 4 September 2011 Cost: Concessions £3.50 |
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other ChaptersA record of bloodlines and their related stories. The subjects documented include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Sadam Hussein's son Uday, and the living dead in India.
Tate Modern Bankside London SE1 9TG 25 May – 6 November 2011 Cost: Free |
Jai Tanju - Filmporvida - A Print Exchange Program
Wayward Gallery
47 Bowlen St London E2 9EH 16th - 27th June The Film Por Vida print exchange program is an international exchange of photographic prints through the mail by over 200 photographers from around the world. Inspired by Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School. In the last 6 years Jai has sent out thousands of photos to photographers, film lovers and artists. In return receiving over 1500 pieces of mail that will be exhibited along with 26 framed photographs. |
London Street Photography
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British Art Show 7: In The Days of The Comet |
John Stezaker
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-stezaker
29 January - 18 March 2011
Cost: free
Whitechapel Gallery, London
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-stezaker
29 January - 18 March 2011
Cost: free
Whitechapel Gallery, London
British artist John Stezaker is fascinated by the lure of images. Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images. Stezaker’s famous Mask series fuses the profiles of glamorous sitters with caves, hamlets, or waterfalls, making for images of eerie beauty.
His ‘Dark Star’ series turns publicity portraits into cut-out silhouettes, creating an ambiguous presence in the place of the absent celebrity. Stezaker’s way of giving old images a new context reaches its height in the found images of his Third Person Archive: the artist has removed delicate, haunting figures from the margins of obsolete travel illustrations. Presented as images on their own, they now take the centre stage of our attention
This first major exhibition of John Stezaker offers a chance to see work by an artist whose subject is the power in the act of looking itself. With over 90 works from the 1970s to today, the artist reveals the subversive force of images, reflecting on how visual language can create new meaning
His ‘Dark Star’ series turns publicity portraits into cut-out silhouettes, creating an ambiguous presence in the place of the absent celebrity. Stezaker’s way of giving old images a new context reaches its height in the found images of his Third Person Archive: the artist has removed delicate, haunting figures from the margins of obsolete travel illustrations. Presented as images on their own, they now take the centre stage of our attention
This first major exhibition of John Stezaker offers a chance to see work by an artist whose subject is the power in the act of looking itself. With over 90 works from the 1970s to today, the artist reveals the subversive force of images, reflecting on how visual language can create new meaning
Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography
Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography
13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011
V & A Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Tube: South Kensington
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Shadow Catchers presents the work of five international artists who, for the last twenty years or more, have been challenging the assumption that a camera is necessary to make a photograph. By casting shadows on light sensitive paper or chemically manipulating its surface these artists seemingly capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The results are exciting images often with surreal or abstract effects and symbolic content. These camera-less techniques were explored at the dawn of photography and have now been rediscovered by contemporary image makers. On display are unique and beautifully crafted works by Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss.
13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011
V & A Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Tube: South Kensington
Exhibitions: , Photography, Gallery How Much: £4
Shadow Catchers presents the work of five international artists who, for the last twenty years or more, have been challenging the assumption that a camera is necessary to make a photograph. By casting shadows on light sensitive paper or chemically manipulating its surface these artists seemingly capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The results are exciting images often with surreal or abstract effects and symbolic content. These camera-less techniques were explored at the dawn of photography and have now been rediscovered by contemporary image makers. On display are unique and beautifully crafted works by Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss.
Edmund Clark
Edmund Clark
Friday, 8 October 10:00 - 18:00
Photofusion Gallery, 17a Electric Lane, Brixton, SW9 8LA
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At the same time as the one over at Flowers, there's also an exhibition of work by award-winning photographer Edmund Clark at Photofusion this October and November.
The images on display aim to go behind the scenes of Guantanamo in order to explore the experience of living there.
Clark says the work ?is not about monumentalising the historical fact of the camps, but evoking the experience of individuals caught up in events in a backwater of Cuba.?
Friday, 8 October 10:00 - 18:00
Photofusion Gallery, 17a Electric Lane, Brixton, SW9 8LA
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At the same time as the one over at Flowers, there's also an exhibition of work by award-winning photographer Edmund Clark at Photofusion this October and November.
The images on display aim to go behind the scenes of Guantanamo in order to explore the experience of living there.
Clark says the work ?is not about monumentalising the historical fact of the camps, but evoking the experience of individuals caught up in events in a backwater of Cuba.?
Mimi Youn
Mimi Youn
Friday, 8 October 10:00 - 18:00
Zoe Bingham Fine Art, 22 John Street, Clerkenwell, WC1N 2BY
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A debut UK solo show for contemporary artist and photographer Mimi Youn.
The works on show - Polaroids and limited edition prints - document everyday life with wit and melancholic wimsy.
Friday, 8 October 10:00 - 18:00
Zoe Bingham Fine Art, 22 John Street, Clerkenwell, WC1N 2BY
Exhibitions: , Art, Photography, Gallery How Much: Free!
A debut UK solo show for contemporary artist and photographer Mimi Youn.
The works on show - Polaroids and limited edition prints - document everyday life with wit and melancholic wimsy.
Competition at the 'Photographers Gallery'
Street Photography Now Project is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson).
Each week from 1 October 2010, a leading contemporary street photographer will issue a new instruction, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we live in.
http://streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com/about/