London Photography Exhibitions

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London Photography Exhibitions

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London photography exhibitions to see this week include British photographer Simon Roberts’ National Property – a new perspective on the social and natural landscape of this nation, often from the top the of his mobile home. British artist Hannah Collins has an exhibition at Camden Arts. Read on for information on these and some of the other ten best London photography exhibitions on now. Note that amongst the London photography exhibitions are closing soon is Tomoko Yoneda: Beyond Memory at Grimaldi Gavin. See below for details.

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Simon Roberts: National Property

Simon Roberts is a British photographer whose work deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity.

“I’m also looking for subliminal signals in the landscape, capturing a sense of tension just underneath the surface of the photograph” – Simon Roberts

For his book Motherland he made pictures at over 200 locations, 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, making a statement on Russia at that time. Later he turned the lenses of his large format camera to his native England for the making of the book We English. On a on-year journey caravanning around the country with his wife and daughter he documented both social and natural landscapes, marking a significant contribution to the photography of England. Later major works include The Election Project and Pierdom.

Flowers Central is putting on an exhibition featuring news works, but building on the successes of Simon Roberts’ previous work. He travelled around the country again in 2014, this time photographing popular scenic destinations.

“Roberts’ work explores senses of belonging in landscapes” Stephen Daniels

Flowers Central is on Cork Street in Soho, just behind the Royal Academy of Arts. It might be worth popping into Grimaldi Gavin on Albermarle Street, if you have time, which is just a two-minute walk.

Where: Flowers Central Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 8th August, 2015.
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More information: Flowers Gallery.

Hannah Collins

Hannah Collins’ photographs “can be experienced as an image and as a kind of architecture; as two-dimensional surface and as sculpture.” Iwona Blazwick . Hannah is a contemporary British artist whose works treat the collective experiences of memory, history and the everyday. The Camden Arts exhibition features the large unframed style of artwork she has become known for. The exhibition attempts to reveal Collins’ capacity to convey the emotional and psychological aspects of spaces steeped in cultural and social history”.

Camden Arts is just off on the Finchley Road, moments from Finchley Road & Frognall Overground station.

Where: James Hyman Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 13th September, 2015.
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More information: Camden Arts.

Raymond Cauchetier’s New Wave

Raymond Cauchetier is an influential French photographer, best-known for capturing some of the most iconic images which epitomised the seminal films of the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague), from which this James Hyman exhibition borrows its name. Raymond Cauchetier’s New Wave staged to coincide with his 95th birthday includes never-before-editioned photographs selected from Cauchetier’s own private archive. The Raymond Cauchetier’s New Wave follows on from Raymond Cauchetier’s first solo London show, held at the James Hyman Gallery in 2010.

Cauchetier’s style is engaging. He is an invisible man, giving the perspective of a fly-on-the-wall during the making of a great film, long before behind-the-scenes publicity shots became ubiquitous.

“A great movie is a universe, the galaxies are intertwined with an apparent and deceptive ease.” Raymond Cauchetier

Famously, when invited to join the elite Magnum agency by Henri-Cartier Bresson, Cauchetier declined: he refused to buy the required Leica camera, preferiing to stick with his trusted Rollieflex camera. Being self-taught himself, the only advice Cauchetier offers photographers is: “follow your own path, and do not listen to advice“.

Where: James Hyman Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 15th August, 2015.
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More information: James Hyman Gallery.

Shirley Baker: Women, Children and Loitering Men

Shirley Baker, who died last year, was a photographer who chronicled and celebrated life in the streets of working class Manchester. In fact she was thought to be the only woman practising street photography in postwar Britain. She was active at a time when the slums were being demolished to be replaced by tower blocks. Her work included children playing in the rubble of destroyed houses. It was poignant yet conveyed her gentle humour.

The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition is a documentary depicting the clearance programme in inner city Manchester and Salford between 1961 and 1981. The northern industrial towns were often painted as being grim places full of poverty, privation and unemployment during the mid-twentieth century. Shirley Baker set about dispelling the myth, revealing Manchester from a different angle: she is now credited for both portraying the poverty and the resilience of Britain’s fractured postwar society.

The exhibition includes previously unseen colour images by Shirley Baker, as well as the black and white images she was known for. The is opens at the Photographers’ Gallery. The Photographers’ Gallery is by Liberty of London, not far from either Oxford Street or Regent Street. There is a great café which also serves nice salads, tea, coffee and cakes.

Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 20th September, 2015.
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More information: The Photographers’ Gallery.

Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860

Captain Linnaeus Tripe was a British, Victorian photographer, a pioneer in photography, was best known for the photographs he made in India and Burma on show in this exhibition. The exhibition features 60 images from paper negatives or calotypes.

“Trip is remarkable for the respect with which he treats the structure of indigenous cultures” FT.

“They’re stunning pictures, but they were tough to get, […] it was a real labour of love.” – Roger Taylor, exhibition curator.

The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum is in South Kensington, five minutes walk from South Kensington tube station and a short walk from Hyde Park.

Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 11th October, 2015.
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More information: V&A Museum.

Tomoko Yoneda: Beyond Memory

Closing soon.
Tomoko Yoneda is considered one of the greatest photographers of her generation in Japan. She adopts an investigative approach to her artistic practice: “awakening memories and feelings related to events from the past, providing the viewer with a moment of deep meditation.” according to Giulia Mutti, AnOther Magazine. She counts her early interest in journalism as a major influence.

“Yoneda seduces us with her images and on first viewing it is easy to miss the clues to the other narratives within the pictures. After reflection we realise that these photographs depict something more complex and troubling.” – Grimaldi Gavin

The Grimaldi Gavin Gallery is in Mayfair, close to Berkeley Square and a short walk from Green Park tube station.

Closing soon.
Where: Grimaldi Gavin Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 7th August, 2015.
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More information: Grimaldi Gavin.

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface was commissioned by Photo London 2015 at Somerset House, and was the highlight exhibition of the whole fair. The exhibitions showcases more than 200 works from the Victoria & Albert Museum archives. The works include images from William Strudwick, Victor Prout and Charles Thurston – pioneers of early photography. The exhibition is not limited to the 19th century though; the work of Thurston Hopkins, John Gay and Brassaï is also displayed. The name of the show ‘Beneath the Surface’ is a metaphor reflecting the depth of the V&A collection.

“What’s most impressive about this collection is the sheer range of work on display” Aesthetica

Somerset House is on the Strand, by Waterloo Bridge and a couple of minutes walk from Covent Garden.

Where: Somerset House.
Ends: Monday, 24th August, 2015.
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More information: Somerset House.

Christina Broom: Soldiers and Suffragettes

Free admission
Christina Broom is considered the United Kingdom’s first, female, professional press photographer and her work from the early 20th century on show in this exhibition reveals her unique observations of London at that time. the work on show, developed from a private collection of over 300 glass plates includes fantastic Suffragettes processions and events.

This exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, is the first ever exhibition dedicated to the photography of Christina Broom 70 years after her death.

“The pioneer finally gets the exhibition she deserves” – Independent.

Images include a portrait of King Edward VII with the Royal Family (including future King George V, grandson of Queen Victoria and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II) at the Duke of Yorks’ School in Chelsea from 1908.

There is a special event next Thursday (25th June): Christina Broom: Close Up, at the Museum of London, Docklands. Tickets can be bought in advance (discount code available).

The Museum of London Docklands is right by West India Quay in the Docklands tube station and only moments from Canary Wharf.

Free admission
Where: Museum of London Docklands.
Ends: Sunday, 1st November, 2015.
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More information: Museum of London.

Victorian London in Photographs

Free admission.
Victorian London in Photographs presents some of the most striking images, in stunning detail, from the dawn of photography, during Queen Victoria’s reign.

On show is the first known photograph taken in London, the opening of the Blackwall Tunnel, the first tube line and life on London’s streets during the times of Dickens.

There is a special tour of the exhibition, with the curator, next month.

London Metropolitan Archives is in Clerkenwell. Stop by nearby Exmouth Market for a coffee any day or for specialist food market on Thursdays and Fridays.

Free admission.
Where: London Metropolitan Archives.
Ends: Thursday, 8th October, 2015.
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More information: London Metropolitan Archives.

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.

That’s it for this week’s London Photography Exhibitions, look out for next week’s list of London Photography Exhibitions!

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