The Photographers' Gallery

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[email protected] +44 (0)20 7087 9300 www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London’s Covent Garden in 1971 and was the first public gallery in the UK dedicated to the medium. Over the years it has introduced such international photographers as Juergen Teller, Robert Capa, Sebastião Salgado, Andreas Gursky and Taryn Simon to British audiences, whilst championing the work of home based practitioners including Martin Parr, Zineb Sedira, Nick Knight and Corinne Day. �

In May 2012, after an ambitious two-year redevelopment to offer new and enhanced spaces for exhibitions, learning, retail and social activities, The Photographers’ Gallery re-opened in its new home in Ramillies Street, Soho, London. It continues to present a diverse and critically acclaimed public-programme of exhibitions, events, talks, workshops and courses that encourage deeper engagement with, and learning through the photographic medium.

New exhibitions now open | 14 October 2026 - 21 February 2027We’re injecting colour and experimentation into our gallery...
14/10/2026

New exhibitions now open | 14 October 2026 - 21 February 2027

We’re injecting colour and experimentation into our gallery this season with three new exhibitions that showcase colour photography at its best, dynamic West African photography and the history of children photographers! Visit our website to book your tickets now!

🎨 William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed - Celebrating 50 years since William Eggleston’s Guide (1976) this major exhibition showcases iconic and rarely seen dye transfer prints by an American pioneer of colour photography.

William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery, in partnership with the Wilson Centre for Photography.

🖼️Sanlé Sory: Colour Years – Better known for his black-and-white studio photography of the 1960s and 70s, Sanlé Sory started producing colour portraits in his Volta Photo studio in the mid-1980s. This exhibition brings together Sanlé Sory’s rarely seen colour photographs for the first time in the UK capturing daily life, youth culture and fashion in Burkina Faso.

Sanlé Sory: Colour Years is curated by Taous Dahmani, Curator at The Photographers' Gallery, and produced by The Photographers' Gallery. With thanks to Florent Mazzoleni and the Sanlé Sory Archive for the generous loan of the works and to Sanlé Sory for his collaboration. ⁠

📸 Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers – Through photographs and archives, Snap Happy! celebrates the creativity, curiosity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.

Snap Happy! is curated by Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, UK, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. ⁠Whippersnappers: How Children Became Photographers by Annebella Pollen will be published in September by Four Corners Books.

In a special artist talk, join us on Thursday 5 November and hear directly from pioneering photographer Charlie Phillips...
12/10/2026

In a special artist talk, join us on Thursday 5 November and hear directly from pioneering photographer Charlie Phillips about his work documenting the West Indian community in London, across the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Charlie Phillips and Paul Goodwin will be in conversation at The Photographers' Gallery, chaired by Isaac Huxtable, to celebrate Charlie’s long-awaited retrospective publication, A Grassroots Legacy – 1962–2010.

The book brings together Phillips’ era-defining street photography, from musicians, street life, parties and families to British Caribbean funerals and cultural traditions. His photographs capture a changing London and Britain, offering an intimate record of the people, communities and places around him. Together, the conversation will explore Charlie’s approach to documenting community, culture and everyday life, and the lasting importance of this work.

Book your tickets for the talk on our website now!

A Grassroots Legacy – 1962-2010 is available to buy from the now!



https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-charlie-phillips

Our Print Sales Gallery exhibition, Roots features eight artists, explores trees, memory, cultural heritage and belongin...
09/10/2026

Our Print Sales Gallery exhibition, Roots features eight artists, explores trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes.

Paul Cupido’s (b.1972. The Netherlands) photographic practice centres on the search for beauty in the ephemerality of life. His affinity for the natural world was shaped by a childhood spent on the Dutch island of Terschelling, and continues to inform his exploration of impermanence and fleetingness through the changing seasons, and the cycles of the moon. For this exhibition, Cupido returned to Terschelling earlier this year to photograph the trees that have long been part of his connection to the island. .cupido

Julie Cockburn (b. 1966, UK) is renowned for her creative re-imagining of found objects and vintage photographs, embellishing the originals through carefully applied embroidery, montage or ceramics. Her inventive reconfigurations result in meticulously crafted contemporary artworks, aiming to add another chapter to its story and continue its journey.

In Gohar Dashti’s (b. 1980, Iran) recent series, Cypress, Dashti depicts the enduring power of the cypress tree using delicate silver and gold leaf, combined with Polaroids and transparent photographs. Drawing on the cypress’s significance in Persian culture and literature, Dashti explores its symbolism of resilience, freedom, and eternity. The cypress stands as a witness to resilience and heritage - a symbol of the stories, values, and traditions that shape her practice.

Visit 'Roots' in the Print Sales Gallery on display now until 15 November!

Opening 14 October | Snap Happy! How Children Became PhotographersDo you remember your first camera? How about the first...
08/10/2026

Opening 14 October | Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers

Do you remember your first camera? How about the first photograph you took?

In our new exhibition, Snap Happy! celebrates the creativity, curiosity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.

The exhibition traces photography’s movement from elite pastime to accessible and popular hobby. Featuring archives of advertising, manuals, comics and toys, Snap Happy! shows how photography became more mainstream and much loved by younger generations.

From snapshots of family, friends and pets to school projects and photographic experimentation, Snap Happy! celebrates a child's eye view of the world through the camera.
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Snap Happy! is curated by Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, UK, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history.

Whippersnappers: How Children Became Photographers by Annebella Pollen will be published in September by Four Corners Books.

Submit your proposals by 1 November for our open call for contributors for our one-day archive event on Friday 16 April ...
07/10/2026

Submit your proposals by 1 November for our open call for contributors for our one-day archive event on Friday 16 April 2027.

'Whose Archive is it Anyway?' is the first in a three-part series of events exploring the future of archives and archiving. ⁠
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We welcome submissions of real-life experiences from people interested in, or already creating, holding and taking care of archives in a non-institutional setting. We're looking for speakers that challenge or answer points related to the future of archives. ⁠
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Deadline for applications: 1 November 2026⁠
Visit our website for more information on the event and what to include in your proposals.

While our main galleries are closed, why not take a trip down to our Print Sales Gallery and explore the current exhibit...
07/10/2026

While our main galleries are closed, why not take a trip down to our Print Sales Gallery and explore the current exhibition, Roots!

This group show featuring eight artists, explores trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes. Three of the artists featured in the show are Ingrid Weyland, Miho Kajioka and Chrystel Lebas!

🌴Ingrid Weyland (b. 1969, Argentina) is drawn to pristine landscapes seemingly untouched by human presence. She describes the places she photographs as spaces for connection, contemplation, and introspection. Her Topographies of Fragility series transforms these landscapes into sculptural objects as Weyland manually twists, folds and crumples the paper, challenging the traditional two-dimensional photographic image. The act of manipulating the print becomes a metaphor for human intervention in the natural world.

🌿Fine art photographer Miho Kajioka (b. 1973, Japan) creates ethereal, minimalist work that draws on the Japanese tradition of “wabi-sabi” – the appreciation of beauty in imperfection and transience, and the Zen/Taoist belief that the essence (true nature) of an object exists in the empty space inside and around it.

🌃Chrystel Lebas (b. 1966, France) often uses a panoramic camera with long exposure times to create sweeping, mesmerising landscapes, which explore photography’s relationship with time and movement. Her interest is in looking at how landscapes carry psychological significance and reveal concealed histories. Preferring to photograph during twilight hours, she exploits the magical effects of the particular dipped light to accentuate the ‘sublime’ and draw attention to our place within the natural world.

Prices from £665 + VAT. All profits from Print Sales support our public programme.

Opening 14 October | William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticedWilliam Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed brings togethe...
05/10/2026

Opening 14 October | William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed

William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed brings together many of his iconic works, alongside lesser-known images. Declaring himself as ‘at war with the obvious’, Eggleston’s democratic way of seeing redefined colour photography and transformed how the ordinary could be represented.

William Eggleston (b. 1939) is widely regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century and a pioneering figure in the acceptance of colour photography as art. His 1976 landmark exhibition and book, 'William Eggleston’s Guide' marked his breakthrough as a photographer.

This autumn, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of his iconic show at MoMa with an exhibition offers a fresh perspective on one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.

Alongside his celebrated colour photographs and rarely seen vintage dye-transfer prints, the exhibition includes his lesser-known black-and-white and Brownie images from the early 1960s and 1970s.
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William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery, in partnership with the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Happy October! 🎃👻🍂This month, we're kicking off autumn with three new exhibitions, opening 14 October: Sanlé Sory: Colou...
01/10/2026

Happy October! 🎃👻🍂

This month, we're kicking off autumn with three new exhibitions, opening 14 October: Sanlé Sory: Colour Years, William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed, and Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers.

🌳However between now and 14 October, why not enjoy some earthy photography in our Print Sales Gallery? Roots is a group show incorporating photography and mixed media, to explore the way trees become symbols of cultural heritage, markers of home, and archives of collective memory.

🖼️Our four-week Collecting Photography course, starting Monday 12 Oct ober will take you through where to begin building your own art collection. Book your place on the course now!

🎤And while it's a little too soon to think about Spring 2027, our call out for proposals by archivists and speakers is still open until 1 November 2026. Selected submissions will partake in 'Whose Archive is it Anyway?' the first in a three-part series of events exploring the future of archives and archiving, which will take place in April 2027.

Visit the ‘what’s on’ page on our website to explore and book upcoming events and workshops.

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Following on from their successful book launch earlier this summer - the 2026 Develop Collective are taking their From H...
30/09/2026

Following on from their successful book launch earlier this summer - the 2026 Develop Collective are taking their From Home to Home project to the in the form of an exhibition!

📆 Wednesday 28 October 2026, 6:00PM 9:00 PM

The Develop Collective is part of the youth programme at The Photographers' Gallery bringing together Chandni Raithatha, Demelza Okwan, Tati El Mallah, Jasmine Sandhu and Soumia Sadoun as part of the 2026 cohort.

They created the publication From Home to Home, exploring the experiences of five women, each from a different diaspora, through archival and contemporary photographs and stories. It frames home not as a fixed or singular idea, but as an ongoing, collective conversation. From Home to Home contributes to a wider dialogue on belonging, visibility and the evolving fabric of one of the world's most diverse cities - London.

The exhibition is curated by Kymara Akinpelumi.
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