"...a riveting, rapturous exploration of the enigmatic and prolific photographer."
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective is on display now, showcasing the work of one of the world’s most innovative and influential artists and street photographers.
Book advance tickets now!
It may be winter right now but the Soho Photography Quarter is injecting some colourful springtime vibes outside our gallery, courtesy of British photographer, Siân Davey's new free outdoor exhibition, The Garden! 🌸🌺🌿🌻🌱
Starting in 2020, British photographer Siân Davey (@siandavey1) transformed her abandoned garden over three summers into a vibrant space, filled with wildflowers, birdsong and people. 🌼
When the flowers bloomed, they called in the community. Everyone had a place in The Garden; the mothers and daughters, the lonely, the marginalised, lovers, the traumatised and heartbroken and those that had concealed a lifetime of shame.
The space became an expression of yearning, defiance, joy and interconnectedness.
When you visit, watch the film (2023, by Dylan Friese-Greene and Siân Davey) playing every evening on the wall opposite the photographs.
Experience The Garden for yourself now - outside The Photographers' Gallery! 🌷
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/sian-davey-garden
NOW OPEN: The Winter Editions
24 November – 21 January
The Print Sales Gallery (@tpgprintsales) is celebrating the festive season with The Winter Editions - a rare chance to own some exquisite prints from an exciting group of international photographers at very reasonable prices. Reveling in the season's beauty, wonder, and whimsy as the winter festivities unfold, the selection of prints are available to view now. Browse the selection and secure yours now via the link 👉 tpg.org.uk/winter-editions
Featuring works from artists: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Raúl Cañibano, Julie Cockburn, Paul Cupido, Fouad Elkoury, Alma Haser, Nicholas Hughes, Chrystel Lebas, Martina Lindqvist, Simon Roberts, Pentti Sammallahti, Jon Tonks
All profits from print sales support our public programme.
Many of Daido Moriyama's early photographs were influenced by the ‘Provoke’ group which published three magazines illustrated almost entirely with photography.
Moriyama joined the movement for the second issue of the magazine which, in addition to its political aims, came to solidify a type of Japanese aesthetic, 'are-bure-boke' meaning ‘grainy, blurry and out of focus’ images, embracing a tradition of experimental image making and rebellion against the technical precision promoted by the culture of the time.
As we continue to take you through each of the series featured in our Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective exhibition, curator Thyago Nogueira talks us through Moriyama's involvement with Provoke Magazine! @thyago1234
Head to our website to book advance tickets for the exhibition now! @daidomoriyamaphotofoundation
Video credit: Ralph Pritchard @ralphpritchard
TPG New Talent is back and we’re delighted to introduce the TNT23 artists:
Igor Chekachkov, Cian Oba-Smith, Cynthia MaiWa Sitei, Weiyi (Margaret) Liang, Robbie Spotswood and Ruudu Ulas
Congratulations to the TNT23 cohort!
The six artists were chosen following an open call by artist Hoda Afshar and our Senior Curator, Karen McQuaid. Their work will be shown in an online gallery and on billboards in the UK, will be paired with a creative mentor and receive a bursary to support the development of their work.
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Igor Chekachkov (b.1989, Ukraine) is a photojournalist & artist. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his work has focused heavily on connectedness and the idea of home. Explore his work, 100 Days of War! @chekachkov
Cian Oba-Smith (b.1992, UK) is a photographer who makes work with communities and issues that are often misrepresented and overlooked. ‘Among Flowers, Tears and Rain’ is an ongoing project which records the effects of the knife violence epidemic in London. Explore his work on the TNT23 website! @cianobasmith
Cynthia MaiWa Sitei (b.1992, Kenya) combines archival images with her own, often indistinguishable, contemporary photography, to explore colonial legacies of Kenya. Explore her project, spear of a nation!
Weiyi (Margaret) Liang (b.1998, China) uses her training as a bodybuilder to subvert traditional ideas of gender in her photographs. Explore her work Mountain of A, on the TNT23 website! @__________marg___
Robbie Spotswood (b.1994, UK) works in a documentary style. Raised in a matriarchal, West African home, the themes of identity, culture and race intertwine to create dream-like narratives linked to his own, personal experiences and family life in London and Accra, Ghana. Explore his series, I Just Want to Stay Home on the TNT23 website! @robbiespotswood
Ruudu Ulas (b.1987, Estonia) combines video, photography and sculpture to create installations. She uses commonplace objects to create uncomfortable interventions in spa
On display now
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective is an exhibition that traces the path of the Japanese photographer who transformed the way we see photography and questioned the very nature of photography itself. Moriyama used his camera to interrogate and revolutionise the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images.
Exhibition curator Thyago Nogueira gives us an intro to Daido Moriyama as well as an intro to what you can expect to see in the show!
Head to our website to book your exhibition tickets now.
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/daido-moriyama-retrospective
‘Emboldened’
‘Vulnerable’
‘Multigenerational’
We’re excited to reveal the #DBPFP24 artists!
Meet the artists:
🌟VALIE EXPORT, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian! 🌟
The 2024 shortlisted projects all critically engage with urgent concerns, from the remnants of war and conflict, experiences of diasporic communities and decolonisation, to contested land, heritage, equality and gender.
To find out more about the artists and their nominated projects, head to our website!
We’re looking forward to showing work by the shortlisted artists in the Gallery in February 2024. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced in May 2024.
VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Austria) is shortlisted for the exhibition VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (25 February – 29 May 2023). Image credit: VALIE EXPORT – SMART EXPORT Self-Portrait, 1970,
Gelatin silver print © Valie Export, Bildrecht Wien, 2023, Photo: Gertraud Wolfschwenger
Photographer Gauri Gill (b. 1970, India) and painter Rajesh Vangad (b. 1975, India) are shortlisted for the book Fields of Sight (2023), published by Edition Patrick Frey. Image credit: Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, ‘Building the City’, 2016, from the series ’Fields of Sight’, 2013-ongoing. © Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad.
Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990, South Africa) is shortlisted for the exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home at Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (17 February – 21 May 2023). Image credit: Re shapa setepe sa lenyalo II, 2013 © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy the artist
Hrair Sarkissian (b. 1973, Syria) is shortlisted for the exhibition The Other Side of Silence at Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (29 November 2022 – 14 May 2023). Image credit: In Between, 2006 © Hrair Sarkissian. Courtesy the artist
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-2024
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize returns to The Photographers’ Gallery in February 2024. We’ll be revealing the shortlisted artists in November!
In the meantime, we asked the members of this year’s jury to sum up the 2024 shortlist in three words.
Shoair Mavlian is Director of The Photographers’ Gallery. She was previously Director of Photoworks, and Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London.
“Urgent. Vulnerable. Inspiring.”
Anne-Marie Beckmann is a German-French art historian, curator and lecturer. She is the Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
“Culture. Identity. Heritage.”
Laura El-Tantawy is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & educator. Her projects investigate notions of home and belonging inspired by her transatlantic background.
“Singular. Diverse. Multigenerational.”
Quentin Bajac is a French museum curator and art historian. He is the Director of the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and has held positions at the Musée d'Orsay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, École du Louvre & Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
“Stories. Histories. Inquiries.”
Rahaab Allana is Curator/Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi. He was the Founding Editor of PIX (enterpix.in), as well as the Founder of ASAP | art. He works nationally and internationally with museums, archives, universities and festivals.
“Decolonial. Worldly. Emboldened.”
Visit our website to read more about the jury and their thoughts on the 2024 shortlist #DBPFP24
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-jury-2024
Playing on the gallery's corner window screen 📺️
Critically Extant by Sofia Crespo is a project that explores just how little we know about the natural world by testing the limits of the data openly available to us in our digital lives.
Alongside Critically Extant, is Coelopidium by Entangled Others Studio, an augmented reality artwork produced as part of Artificial Remnants, an ongoing exploration of artificial life using deep learning to generate insects as well as their names and anatomical descriptions.
View the display now!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/sofia-crespo-critically-extant
Only a few days to go until we welcome you into the world of Moriyama with our Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective exhibition!
The retrospective will focus on different moments of Moriyama’s vast and productive career - beginning with his early works for Japanese magazines, interest in the American occupation, and engagement with photorealism - to his work from the self-reflexive period in the 1980s and 1990s.
Book your tickets now!
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective is supported by @bagrifoundation, @GBSasakawa, @DaiwaFoundation, @JapanFoundationLondon
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/daido-moriyama-retrospective
Get your hands on the new Polaroid I-2, retailing at £599.99
Designed for craft, the I-2 is Polaroid’s first analogue instant camera with built-in manual controls, and comes with the sharpest-ever Polaroid lens. Paired with the unique chemistry of Polaroid film, you have an instant camera made for the imperfectionists.
Buy the I-2 in our bookshop and online now, head to our shop website to find out more.
https://bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/products/polaroid-i-2-camera-incl-vat
Join our community of members and support The Photographers’ Gallery!
We've got a whole host of exciting exhibitions happening throughout the year, including the current Evelyn Hofer, Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place and the exciting Daido Moriyama retrospective coming next month, so treat yourself to a TPG membership and get free unlimited access to all our shows, exhibition openings as well as discounts in our café, bookshop and programme of talks, events, workshops and courses.
Membership starts from £40 a year – our members provide us with vital support so we can continue to champion photography for everyone.
Find out more and sign up here: www.tpg.org.uk/become-a-member
“Hofer’s life and legacy are finally receiving their proper due”
- HUCK Magazine
You have just over two weeks to view the Evelyn Hofer exhibition!
The major retrospective spans 45 years of image-making, featuring over 110 black and white and colour images that showcase her mastery for the complex colour dye transfer process.
Discover Hofer now. Exhibition closes 24 September.
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/evelyn-hofer
Polaroid I-2. For the imperfectionists.
Introducing the brand new camera from Polaroid: The I-2!
From today, we are one of only two UK launch venues (and the only gallery bookshop!) where you can get your hands on the new Polaroid I-2, retailing at £599.99
Designed for craft, the I-2 is Polaroid’s first analogue instant camera with built-in manual controls, and comes with the sharpest-ever Polaroid lens. Paired with the unique chemistry of Polaroid film, you have an instant camera made for the imperfectionists.
Buy the I-2 in our bookshop and online now, head to our shop website to find out more.
https://bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/products/polaroid-i-2-camera-incl-vat
Andreas Pauly (b. 1956, Germany) is a freelance photographer of architecture and art who worked with Evelyn Hofer as her photography assistant! He first met Evelyn Hofer in 1982 and went on to work with her for many years on various projects and exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Working together they developed a long-standing collaboration and close friendship. He took over the management of Evelyn Hofer’s artistic estate following her death in 2009.
Listen to our interview with Andreas where he sheds some light into Evelyn's working practices, as well as sharing some of his experiences working with and for Evelyn!
Full interview video is available to watch on Youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuvPmw773dY
Swing by the gallery today from 1pm-5pm where we'll be hosting our Climate Conversations event in the Soho Photography Quarter!
Set amongst the backdrop of Gideon Mendel's Fire / Flood exhibition, outside the gallery, we'll host an afternoon of guest talks, discussing various aspects of the climate crisis and how these problems can be tackled.
Register your interest here:
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/event-climate-conversations
Don't miss our Climate Conversations event in the Soho Photography Quarter this Saturday!
Set amongst the backdrop of Gideon Mendel's Fire / Flood exhibition, outside the gallery, we'll host an afternoon of guest talks, discussing various aspects of the climate crisis and how these problems can be tackled.
Speakers include:
Our host for the day - Alice Aedy, a documentary photographer, filmmaker and campaigner @aliceaedy @earthrise.studio
🌍️Destiny Boka-Batesa, co-founder of Choked Up, an environmental justice campaign raising awareness of the disproportionate impacts of air pollution @chokedup_uk
🌍️Niamh Crisp-O'Brien & Liv Marshall, from Teach the Future
🌍️Aryo Feldman, who leads the Fringe Farming project at Sustain
🌍️Beth Gardiner, an environmental journalist and author of 'Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution'
🌍️Amber Hayward, a political ecologist, climate campaigner and Programs Manager for Switch It Green @switchit.green
🌍️Councillor Ryan Jude, Deputy Cabinet Member for Climate Action and Biodiversity
🌍️Charlie Hertzog Young, activist and author of Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future @chertzogyoung
🌍️Luca Marazzi, an environmental scientist and aquatic ecologist @luca_marazzi_uk
🌍️Gideon Mendel, photographer and current exhibiting artist in the Soho Photography Quarter @gideonmendel
🌍️Dilys Williams, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion @dilys.williams
This event is part of Inside Out - celebrating arts and culture in @citywestminster this Summer.
Register for the event on our website, and get free entry to all our exhibitions on the day!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/event-climate-conversations
Explore and redefine what home means in our special TPG Friday Lates event this evening, celebrating our exhibition, Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place!
Kicking off from 5pm until 9pm, enjoy free entry to our exhibitions and special events, including:
🎞️ A series of film screenings, put together by curatorial platform, Black Blossoms (@blackblossoms.online)
🎤 Poetry jam session from 5-6pm in the café bar, led by poet and photographer, Dillon Kalyabe (@dillon_kalyabe) and Jamel Alatise (@firstsonofsoil) - open to all poets and artists who would like to participate!
🎧️ DJ set in the café bar, courtesy of renowned photographer, Eddie Otchere (@dhagren)
📷️ Get the photographs from your youth included in the Museum of Youth Culture's growing archives, courtesy of this Scanning Social! Bring along your old photographs, flyers and other ephemera to have it scanned and included in their archive (@museumofyouthculture)
🖼️ Exhibition tour of Home is Not a Place from Johny Pitts at 7pm (@johnymodern)
Celebrate the Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place exhibition this Friday with our FREE TPG Friday Lates special from 5-9pm 💫
🎞️ A series of film screenings, put together by curatorial platform, Black Blossoms (@blackblossoms.online)
🎤 Poetry jam session from 5-6pm in the café bar, led by poet and photographer, Dillon Kalyabe (@dillon_kalyabe) and Jamel Alatise (@firstsonofsoil) - open to all poets and artists who would like to participate!
🎧️ DJ set in the café bar, courtesy of renowned photographer, Eddie Otchere (@dhagren)
📷️ Get the photographs from your youth included in the Museum of Youth Culture's growing archives, courtesy of this Scanning Social! Bring along your old photographs, flyers and other ephemera to have it scanned and included in their archive (@museumofyouthculture)
🖼️ Exhibition tour of Home is Not a Place from Johny Pitts at 7pm (@johnymodern)
Our bookshop, print sales gallery and other exhibitions will be available to visit throughout the course of the evening! Don't miss this jam-packed event!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tpg-friday-late-home-not-place
“Pitts’ pared back approach….has a simplicity that’s refreshing and unpretentious. Moving from one room to another feels like browsing through a family album.”
– Aesthetica Magazine
Johny Pitts invites you to come in, take a seat and feel right at home - to experience what home means to him - in our exhibition, Home is Not a Place. On show now until 24 September!
Visit our website to book advance tickets now and don't miss our TPG Lates special this Friday where we'll be hosting a series of events related to the exhibition.
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/johny-pitts-home-not-place
Afrogenesis is a new immersive filter by London based photographer, filmmaker and CGI artist Sarah Ejionye (@sarahejionye on instagram), launching today as part of our augmented reality initiative ‘Open Space’ curated in collaboration with Zaiba Jabbar. 🌀🔥
Listen to Sarah discuss Afrogenesis, as she talks us through the process of creating the AR filter!
Taking the form of an immersive digitally rendered environment, Afrogenesis is a reimagining of three different short stories from Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2001), A Science-Fiction anthology featuring work by black writers. Afrogenesis combines these separate tales into one world, interpreting them via augmented reality.
The user is transported onto a spaceship with a jungle atmosphere and encounters sentinels called Watchers (based on Twice, At Once, Separated by Linda Addison) witnesses the all encompassing flames of the Soucouyant (Nalo Hopkinson’s Greedy Choke Puppy) and may spot a mystery floating statue holding a kalimba (Charles R. Saunders’ Gimmile’s Songs).
Afrogenesis is now available to use - head to our Instagram profile to explore the digital world, situated within the filter section! ✨
With audio by @job_type__ and text by @deecee.archive
Open Space is an Augmented Reality initiative comprised of artist commissions and a mentoring programme for young artists (aged 18-24). It’s supported using public funding by Arts Council England
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/afrogenesis-sarah-ejionye
"His stark but sympathetic observation focused attention on issues and communities often neglected or hidden." [BBC News]
Chris Killip, retrospective is currently on display now!
The exhibition of more than 140 works, serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer's work to date and includes previously unseen works.
Let us know what you think of the exhibition by tagging us in your stories or leaving a comment below 👇️
McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour, is a new film by @dogwoof, available to watch exclusively on Dogwoof On Demand now.
The film is an intimate look at the life and work of enigmatic photographer Steve McCurry. Learn all about the man who created some of the most enduring images of our time.
For the first time, discover the intimate stories and creative process behind his most iconic images.
👉 https://watch.dogwoof.com/film/mccurry-the-pursuit-of-colour/
“A curious, thought-provoking and multi-faceted exhibition.”
This is your last week to visit our How To Win At Photography exhibition on display now!
Featuring over 30 international artists, How to Win at Photography questions the very meaning and function of photography today.
Don't miss your chance to view this unique exhibition before it closes on 25 September. Book your tickets now!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/how-to-win-at-photography
