Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth
2025 marks 100 years since the invention of the photobooth in New York.
Mon – Weds 10am – 6pm Thurs & Fri 10am – 8pm Sat 10am – 6pm Sun and bank holidays 11am – 6pm
The Photographers’ Gallery
Lebohang Kganye Wins Prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024
The prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize has been awarded to South African artist Lebohang Kganye, celebrating her profound exploration… Read More
17 May 2024
Chris Killip, retrospective
Chris Killip’s continued efforts to value and document the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England throughout the 1970s and 80s have made him one of the most influential figures of British Photography.
Monday – Wednesday 10.00–18.00 Thursday 10.00–15.00 Friday 10.00–20.00 Saturday 10.00–18.00 Sunday 11.00–18.00
Helen Cammock: Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks
Continuing a practice that harnesses film, photography, print, text, song and performance to explore social histories and interrogate mainstream historical narratives, Cammock brings together residents and community groups of Rochdale, Greater Manchester
Tuesday – Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00 Thursday – Friday (Lates): 10.00 – 20.00 Saturday: 10.00 – 18.00 Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00
From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta. A Retrospective
From Here to Eternity is the first major retrospective of UK based photographer, Sunil Gupta (b. 1953, New Delhi India) and offers a complex and layered view of Gupta’s unique transcontinental photographic vision.
Tuesday – Saturday 10.00 – 18.00 Thurs 10.00 - 20.00 Sunday 11.00 – 18.00 Monday – Closed
Sue Davies Founder Of The Photographers’ Gallery Dies Aged 87
Sue Davies, who founded The Photographers’ Gallery in London’s Covent Garden in 1971 has died age 87.
23 April 2020
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020
Reopened
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is an annual award, originated by The Photographers’ Gallery, to recognise and support the most innovative, original and relevant photography-based practice within a given year.
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thurs Lates: 17.00 - 20.00 Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography From 1959 To 2016
Featuring the work of over seventy photographers and artists, Urban Impulses embraces half a century of Latin American photography, from 1959 to 2016.
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thurs Lates: 17.00 - 20.00 Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Urban Impulses Latin American Photography The Photographers’ Gallery London – Edward Lucie-Smith
Urban Impulses, the new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery here in London, exemplifies the reasons why contemporary photography now so… Read More
5 August 2019
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019
Exhibition featuring the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019.
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thurs Lates: 17.00 - 20.00 Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
Presented simultaneously at The Photographers’ Gallery and Jewish Museum London, Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990).
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thu: 10.00 - 20.00 during exhibitions Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive
Silver Lake Drive is a major new exhibition marking the first mid-career survey of American photographer and filmmaker, Alex Prager (b.1979). This comprehensive exhibition presents over 40 photographs and her complete filmic oeuvre, all of which capture the banal and the fantastic, the every day and the theatrical in Prager’s heightened reality.
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thu: 10.00 - 20.00 during exhibitions Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
London’s Latest Must-See Photography Exhibitions
There are some thought-provoking and informative photography exhibitions on show in London at the moment. Ranging from the Barbican’s Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins which explores subjects on the edge of society to the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 at the Photographers’ gallery. Also just opened is the Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography which shows together Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). Here is a selection of what’s on offer.
28 February 2018
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018
The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 are Mathieu Asselin, Rafal Milach, Batia Suter and Luke Willis Thompson.
Monday – Saturday: 10.00 – 18.00 Thursday: 10.00 – 20.00 during exhibitions Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00
Under Cover: A Secret History Of Cross – Dressers
Drawn from the extensive personal archives of filmmaker and photography collector Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition of amateur ‘found’ photographs from Europe and the US explores gender non-conformity and cross-dressing.
Monday – Saturday: 10.00 – 18.00 Thursday: 10.00 – 20.00 during exhibitions Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00
Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
20th-anniversary of the annual Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. The photographers shortlisted for the 2017 prize are Sophie Calle, Dana Lixenberg, Awoiska van der Molen, and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The winner will be announced at a special award ceremony during the exhibition.
Monday–Saturday: 10.00–18.00 Thursday: 10.00–20.00 during exhibitions Sunday: 11.00–18.00
Roger Mayne
The first exhibition since 1999 to show the iconic work of British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014).
It includes his pioneering photographs of 1950s early 1960s community life in London’s Southam Street. Mayne’s humanistic approach has influenced subsequent generations of photographers and made a significant contribution to post-war British photography.
Thursday: 10.00–20.00 during exhibitions Sunday: 11.00–18.00
Feminist Avant Garde Of The 1970s Explored At The Photographers’ Gallery
Feminist Avant Garde of the 1970s is an expansive exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150… Read More
29 July 2016
The Lure of Soho Explored In New Photography Exhibition
A new photography exhibition explores the Lure of London’s Soho at The Photographers’ Gallery, this Spring. Under the Influence: John… Read More
12 December 2013
Shoot Existential Photography New Exhibition At The Photographers Gallery
A curious attraction made its appearance in fun fairs and amusement parks, in the years following World War I. The… Read More
1 October 2012
The Photographers Gallery World in London Olympics Exhibition
The World in London is a major public art project initiated by The Photographers’ Gallery, to coincide with the London… Read More
10 July 2012