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Current Events and Exhibitions

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Siân Davey: The Garden at The Photographers' Gallery

29 November 2023 to 29 November 2024

London

Discover works from Siân Davey’s The Garden in a free outdoor exhibition in the Soho Photography Quarter just outside the Gallery. More →

Past Events and Exhibitions

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The Social: Self-Fundraising at The Photographers' Gallery

17 January 2024, 18:30 to 19:30

Deliberately informal, The Social includes presentations by photography/arts professionals, offering tips on chosen themes and encourages participants to join the conversation and share their own insights.

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The Photographers' Gallery: Screen Walk with beck haberstroh

15 November 2023, 18:00 to 20:00

Join beck haberstroh on a journey to the image datasets created to train AI generative models on 15 November 2023.

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The Ethics of… Capturing - The Photographers’ Gallery

28 May 2019, 18:30 to 20:30

Leading up to its 50th anniversary, The Photographer’s Gallery presents The Ethics of Photography. A series of talks discussing ethical issues faced through photography. The first of these events, The Ethics of… Capturing, reflects on TPG’s opening exhibiton, the concerned photographer.

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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017

3 March 2017 to 11 June 2017

The four artists nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 are Sophie Calle, Dana Lixenberg, Awoiska van der Molen and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The exhibition features four distinct projects, one from each of the shortlisted artists.

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Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s

7 October 2016 to 8 February 2017

The Photographers’ Gallery presents Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s, an expansive exhibition comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150 major works from the Verbund Collection in Vienna.

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Speed Of Light

15 July 2016 to 25 September 2016

This is the first major retrospective of Terence Donovan (1936 - 1996) one of the foremost photographers of his generation.

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Southern Light Stations

2 October 2015 to 10 January 2016

This exhibition presents the artist’s first major solo show in London, and consists of entirely new and previously unseen works.

It continues Noémie Goudal’s interest in manmade interventions into the natural world, through photographs which portray complex and ambiguous constructions created by the artist within the landscape.

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Seamless Transitions

6 February 2015 to 15 April 2015

Seamless Transitions is a new commission by London based artist, writer and technologist James Bridle. His work engages with the invisible yet pervasive technologies that we encounter every day. Utilising a variety of platforms from software to social media, photography and installations, Bridle explores how technology both affects culture and reproduces and shapes political power.

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Human Rights Human Wrongs

6 February 2015 to 6 April 2015

Human Rights Human Wrongs features more than 200 original press prints, drawn from the Black Star collection of twentieth century photoreportage.

The exhibition explores what role such images play in helping us understand the case for human rights, and further addresses the legacy of how photographs have historically functioned in raising awareness of international conflict.

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Primrose: early colour photography in Russia

1 August 2014 to 19 October 2014

Primrose showcases the appearance and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to the 1970s. It presents both the history of Russian photography and the history of Russia in photography, depicting life over the course of a century, as the country endured unprecedented upheaval.

The exhibition is arranged in chronological order and shows the development of photographic colour technology and the social transformations which altered the role of photography in Russian society.

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Didn't we have a lovely time

11 July 2014 to 31 August 2014

Celebrating the landscape, traditions and rituals of the British seaside holiday, Didn't We Have a Lovely Time... presents the work of five leading British photographers - John Hinde, Nicholas Hughes, Mike Perry, Simon Roberts and Luke Stephenson

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Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs

17 January 2014 to 30 March 2014

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. Despite his prolific achievements as a novelist, essayist, spoken word performer and painter, Burroughs’ work as a photographer is rarely acknowledged.

Coinciding with the centenary of Burroughs’ birth, Taking Shots will be the first exhibition worldwide to focus on Burroughs’ vast photographic oeuvre and offers new and important insights into his artistic and creative processes.

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Andy Warhol: Photographs 1976 – 1987

17 January 2014 to 30 March 2014

Despite his fame as a painter, filmmaker and colourist, Andy Warhol’s use of photographic imagery permeates his practice. However, it was only later in his life, when acquainted with the compact cameras of the 1970s, that he focused on photography in its own right.

Using 35mm black and white film, Warhol (1928 – 1987) carried a camera with him most of the time – taking up to 36 frames a day. Capturing everyday details, people, street scenes, celebrity parties, interiors, cityscapes and signage his subjects all reflect the artist’s characteristic indifference to hierarchy.

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David Lynch: The Factory Photographs

17 January 2014 to 30 March 2014

"I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste." David Lynch

Anyone familiar with David Lynch’s enigmatic visual language will identify similarities between this series of photographs and his iconic films.

Featuring black and white interiors and exteriors of industrial structures, the exhibition exudes the unique cinematic style of Lynch (b. 1946, USA) through dark and brooding images.

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Deeds not Words

2 August 2013 to 29 September 2013

Mark Neville's experimental documentary project Deeds Not Words is a vivid portrait of a community dealing with environmental pollution, birth defects and a high profile court case.

It's an optimistic story of industrial growth and decline, regeneration and solidarity, raising photography's role in influencing policy issues.

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Mass Observation: This is Your Photo

2 August 2013 to 29 September 2013

Transforming the humdrum through the prism of an optimistic new kind of democratic realism, the project directives to observers were broad in scope, observing pub conversations, village life, gift giving and mantelpiece arrangements.

It's a way of seeing that is both intimate and privileged, revealing the unexpected in the familiar.

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Studio Works

19 April 2013 to 21 July 2013

Claire Aho (b. 1925, Finland) was a pioneering editorial photographer and innovator of colour techniques.

In the early 1950s, at a highpoint in Finnish design culture, Aho established a Helsinki-based photography studio under her own name. Her prolific output spanned advertising, editorial, reportage and fashion for a range of commercial applications. She dealt with all aspects of the creative process, from casting models, set-making, styling and lighting to developing and printing her own images.

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Shoot! Existential Photography

12 October 2012 to 6 January 2013

This exhibition draws on the form and function of the fairground photographic shooting gallery.

If the punter’s bullet hit the centre of the target, it triggered a camera. Instead of winning a balloon or toy, the participant would win a snapshot of themselves in the act of shooting.

This exhibition traces the history of this fascinating side-show – from its popular use at fairgrounds to how it fascinated many artists and intellectuals in its heyday, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Man Ray and Lee Miller.

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Men & Women

12 October 2012 to 6 January 2013

Irish born photographer Tom Wood (b. 1951) has, for the last four decades, continuously recorded the daily lives of the people of Liverpool and the Merseyside area.

Never seen without his camera, and constantly moving between different formats and photographic styles, colour and black and white, Wood readily mixes images of strangers with portraits of family and friends. His work, although documentary in its approach, is much more fluid than that – an exploration of the medium of photography as much as a celebration of the city of Liverpool and its inhabitants.

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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012

13 July 2012 to 9 September 2012

This is an exhibition of four artists shortlisted for the annual photography prize.

This selection showcases diverse approaches to photography, from portraits taken in the toxic waste dumps of Ghana, to exquisite images of everyday moments and the conceptual use of found imagery.

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Raqs Media Collective

19 May 2012 to 1 July 2012

Raqs Media Collective are three Delhi-based artists – Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – whose practice includes photography, new media, film, media theory and curation.

This exhibition features two works. An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale (2011) is a silent looped video projection that transforms an archival photograph taken in Calcutta in 1911 through a series of subtle alterations.

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Oil

19 May 2012 to 1 July 2012

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has travelled the world to chronicle the effect of oil on all our lives, and to reveal the rarely seen mechanics of its production and distribution.

This exhibition shows three sections from Burtynsky’s series OIL: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture and The End of Oil. The works depict landscapes scarred by the extraction of oil, and the cities and suburban sprawl defined by its use. He also eloquently addresses the coming end of oil, as we face its rising cost and dwindling availability.

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Raqs Media Collective

16 June 2012, 18:00 to 19:00

In conversation with Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions, The Photographers' Gallery.

Raqs Media Collective are three Delhi-based artists – Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Their installations, performances and encounters sit at the intersection between contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory.

Raqs Media Collective is on show at The Photographers' Gallery until 1 July 2012.

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The Use of the Camera

12 June 2012, 18:00 to 19:00

Is photography the perfect medium to illustrate big ideas?

Can political and personal change really take place by looking at photographs, or can it only be symbolic when we are presented with pleasing aesthetics? This panel discusses how we consume photographs and what change they can affect.

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