MIF19 World Premiere: This installation reflects on the half-forgotten history of Ibrahim Mahama’s home country of Ghana, whose journey from British colony to independent nation was completed barely 60 years ago.
Exhibitions
We regret to announce that after 26 years of supporting photographers and championing photography throughout the UK, Redeye, the Photography Network will wind down on 31 July 2024 due to a number of factors, including lack of funding. Read our full statement here. We are no listing exhibitions. The archive of past exhibitions is available below.
14 September 2019 to 29 September 2019
Manchester
NOT PHOTOGRAPHY presents nine artists whose practices engage with the characteristics and materialities that shape what we know as the photographic image. Their interests extend beyond assumed representational limits of photography, exploring expanding relationships with sculpture, printmaking and performance. More →
13 July 2019 to 21 September 2019
Since 2009 and with the support of the Art Fund, the British Museum and the V&A have been assembling an important collection of contemporary photography focusing on the Middle East – the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography. More →
27 June 2019 to 15 September 2019
The National Portrait Gallery presents Cindy Sherman’s first UK retrospective exhibition from 27th June – 15th September 2019. The show will consist of around 150 images, including work never presented in a public gallery. In the age of social media, Cindy Sherman’s work is as relevant as ever with her thorough critical analysis of modern culture and reality. More →
13 May 2019 to 1 September 2019
The National Coal Mining Museum presents Ian Beesley's Grafters: Industrial Society in image and word, an exhibition exploring scenes of industrial life in 19th, 20th and 21st century Britain. More →
15 June 2019 to 26 July 2019
Photographer Stephanie Wynne and a women's group from Wirral Change (a BME outreach centre) have collaborated to create ‘Transformative Moments’. The women came together to mark and celebrate the critical point in history when some British women achieved the vote. To mirror that pivotal national moment on 21st November 1918. The women have collaborated photographically along with concepts and ideas to illustrate life altering events or decisions for change. The exhibition will be shown at the Williamson Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead from the 15th June to 26th July 2019. More →
10 May 2019 to 7 July 2019
Liverpool
Opening Friday 10 May, Kinship at Open Eye Gallery navigates the dynamics of modern relationships. The exhibition presents projects from seven photographers, all women, addressing traditional ideas of how people might relate to others based on their gender, age, or position within a family. Together, the artists seek to open up new ways of thinking about how we express our sense of kin — as friends, family and partners. Kinship features the work of Pixy Liao, Lydia Goldblatt, Johanna Heldebro, Jenny Lewis, Momo Okabe, and Margaret Mitchell. More →
25 May 2019 to 28 June 2019
Greater Manchester
This timely exhibition from documentary photographer and Redeye member David Dunnico, uses humour and biting social comment to unpick the many tangled threads of patriotism, nationalism and branding which hold the Union Jack together (and make it such an iconic graphic design). More →
15 May 2019 to 15 June 2019
Manchester
A handpicked selection of some of the best photos from the award-winning Kendal Calling Festival over the last three years by the official festival photographers Scott Salt and Jody Hartley who run the photography team One Eye In. The month-long exhibition runs until Saturday 15 June, when all the prints featured will be auctioned off to raise money for Big Change. More →
11 May 2019 to 9 June 2019
From May 11th The Lowry presents Zoë Law’s exhibition, LIFE. The series includes portraits of 21 people living with cancer who have been supported by Maggie’s across the UK through their different cancer experiences. Maggie’s provides free practical and emotional support to people with cancer and their family and friends. More →