London Photography Exhibitions
London Photography Exhibitions
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There’s a lot happening in London Photography Exhibitions over the coming weeks, so brace yourself! This week we focus on The Other Art Fair which is a new fair targeting under-represented artists and open for a few days only. As well as discovering new artists, you can enjoy a new exhibition at the newly expanded Beetles + Huxley gallery. The gallery reopens with Double Platimun: a tribute to the outstanding master of the ‘decisive moment’, Elliot Erwitt. Beyond those two new London Photography Exhibitions, don’t forget João Penalva’s exhibition is ending soon if you wanted to catch it. It’s his third solo exhibition at the Simon Lee Gallery in Mayfair. Read on for details of these and other London Photography Exhibitions.
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The Other Art Fair
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The Other Art Fair (TOAF) is a little different to London Photography Exhibitions which we normally mention. The new art fair which offers visitors a chance to see work from undiscovered artists. Within the fair, there is an area specifically for photography called Photo 21. Over 700 artists applied to exhibit and a selection committee including YBA Gavin Turk, the Courtauld’s Dr Stephanie Buck and Mary Rozell, Director of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute New York whittled this down to the few select artists chosen for the London exhibition. The Other Art Fair, at Victoria House in Bloomsbury, offers the opportunity to buy photographic prints from over 60 artists, for as little as £60.
The Fair is open for four days in London this week and then moves to Bristol next month. Look out for more TOAF London Photography Exhibitions: there will also be another TOAF in London in October. More details closer to the time.
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Where: Victoria House (see London Photography Galleries page for details).
Ends: Sunday, 26th April, 2015.
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More information: The Other Art Fair.
Elliot Erwitt: Double Platinum
Free admission
Elliot Erwitt is soon to receive an award, in London, for his outstanding contribution to photography. The Magnum photographer, is said to be master of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Decisive Moment’: his work characterised by his humour.
The French photographer is modest, putting his iconic shot of Nixon making his point to then Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev down to “sheer luck”. He once claimed he’d always be an amateur photographer and still spends his days taking pictures in the Big Apple.
This exhibition at the newly-opened expanded Beetles + Huxley gallery lends it’s name to the doubling up of Erwitt’s platinum prints with his photographs of Marilyn Monroe. The “blazing new exhibition” is “long overdue” according to the Culture Whisperer and includes never seen before colour photographs.
Where: Beetles + Huxley.
Ends: Saturday, 27th May, 2015.
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More information: Beetles+Huxley.
João Penalva
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Free admission
João Penalva, the Portuguese Londoner, presents his third solo exhibition at the Simon Lee Gallery in Mayfair. João left Portugal, for London, when he was 20 to escape the colonial war and studied dance. Since the then he has worked with many media, though photography is central to his practice. João uses photography as a medium highlighting the “ambiguity of its relationship to fact and fiction”. João’s work was included in the recent Conflict, Time Photography Exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.
Closing soon
Free admission
Where: Simon Lee Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 25th April, 2015.
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More information: Simon Lee Gallery.
Alexander Gronsky
Free admission
Alexander Gronsky, Estonian photographer, puts on his first exhibition at the Wapping Project Bankside. The display consists of large format photographs of Moscow, reminiscent of 19th century landscape paintings. The show also features three images from Reconstruction. Reconstruction is Gronsky’s series which documents re-enactments of historic Russian battles.
Free admission
Where: Soho Revue Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 29th May, 2015.
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More information: The Wapping Project Bankside.
Nothing Perishes: Elastique – Jennifer Abessira
Free admission
Nothing perishes at the newly opened Soho Revue Gallery features photography from Jennifer Abessira. Her display consists of diptychs: pairs of images juxtaposed to create an association in Abessira’s life.
Free admission
Where: Soho Revue Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 16th May, 2015.
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More information: Soho Revue Gallery.
David Batchelor: Monochrome Archive, 1997 – 2015
Free admission
“David Batchelor’s work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age.” – Ingleby Gallery.
In this exhibition he photographs white rectangles found in urban environments. David Batchelor puts the rectangle above the horizon line, and frames horizontal rectangles in landscape format, and vertical ones in portrait. The series started in 1997 as a challenge to a view that the monochrome couldn’t represent the everyday life of the city.
This is a constantly evolving collection, which renews itself each time it is shown. The collection currently includes 500 images from London to São Paulo. The artist still continues to use 35 mm film on a Nikon SLR camera, despite the advances in digital photography since 1997, when he started the series.
Free admission
Where: Whitechapel Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 3rd May, 2015.
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More information: Whitechapel Gallery.
Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process
Nick Waplington reveals a “raw and unpolished” side of fashion. The late Alexander McQueen collaborated with Waplington, creating a unique record of his working practice.
“The exhibition provides a fascinating inside account of McQueen’s creating process as Waplington photographs the designer as he progresses from his initial ideas to the final catwalk show.” – Blouin Art Info
Where: Tate Britain.
Ends: Sunday, 17th May, 2015.
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More information: Tate.
Revelations: Experiments in Photography
The Science Museum follows on from the Drawn by Light exhibition, which showcased over 150 years of photography from the Royal Photographic Society archive. Revelations while covering a similar period has a scientific focus, exploring the role of photograph in Science and “featuring some of the rarest images from the pioneers of photography”.
“The curators should be commended for making this potentially overwhelming subject into a show that engages on many levels, social, scientific, historic, and visual”. Telegraph
Where: Science Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 13th September, 2015.
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More information: Science Museum.
Samantha Roddick: Hidden Within
Closing soon
Free admission
Samantha Roddick: Hidden Within explores the sexual experience in modern society. This is the first artistic project by the original founder of the erotic boutique, Coco de Mer: “Sex has been sold into consumerism and there is a massive gap between what we individually experience sexually and how the media represents it. We need to start to envision how a healthy sexual society behaves.” Samantha Roddick
The display includes 144 images directed by Samantha Roddick herself and explores the sexual objectification of women in our culture. “Every detail has been considered and perfected.” Michael Hoppen Gallery.
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Free admission
Where: Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 1st May, 2015.
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More information: Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860
You may have been to see the Drawn by Light exhibition at the Science Museum which featured image from the 250,000 image The Royal Photographic Society archive, which started collecting pieces in 1853. This exhibition focusses on that nascent period of the photography and the Royal Photographic Society, promising to be a rare and revealing collection of early photography.
Salt and Silver features prints created by Henry Fox Talbot’s process which made the production of photographic paper prints possible. At the time, contemporary, Daguerre’s process (which was invented in conjunction with Niépce) produced only a single Daguerrotype image on a silver-plated copper plate. Tate Britain aims to draw attention to the process which is not very well-known in Britain, despite originating from Henry Fox Talbot’s Wiltshire laboratory at Lacock House. The prints on show are some of the rarest and earliest prints produced around the birth of photography.
On display are images by Roger Fenton from the Crimean War and Linnaeus Tripe’s shots from a flood-swept India. Naturally Henry Fox Talbot’s capture of Nelson’s Column being constructed in Trafalgar is also on show, but the show isn’t intended as a historical archive, Prospero writes: “This show makes very clear that photography’s earliest practitioners appreciated the artistic possibilities of the new medium.” According to the Evening Standard, “you see […] not just a portrait of the world in the 19th century but the blueprint for the dominant and democratic medium of our own age”.
Joint tickets for entry to Sculpture Victorious, also at Tate Britain can be arranged.
Where: Tate Britain.
Ends: Sunday, 7th June, 2015.
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More information: Tate Britain.
Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience
Free admission.
This display features images from the Victoria and Albert museum archive, and, show cases photographic responses the the Black British Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s in Britain. The images are joined by oral commentary provided by the Black Cultural Archives which aims to raise awareness of the contribution of black Britons to British culture, society, and the art of photography.
Free admission.
Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 24th May, 2015.
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More information: V&A Museum.
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