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Photo London has established itself as a world-class photography fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community. From the capital’s major museums, to its auction houses, galleries large and small, right into the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London, Photo London harnesses the city’s outstanding creative talent and brings the world’s leading photographers, curators, exhibitors, dealers and the public to celebrate photography, the medium of our time.

For a fresh lens on arts and photography, turn to FT Weekend: inspiration for the culturally curious.Follow to start yo...
01/06/2026

For a fresh lens on arts and photography, turn to FT Weekend: inspiration for the culturally curious.

Follow to start your weekend thinking.

Book Club – May 2026Photo London’s May Book Club brings together five recent and forthcoming publications that consider ...
31/05/2026

Book Club – May 2026

Photo London’s May Book Club brings together five recent and forthcoming publications that consider identity, ecology, memory, youth culture and q***r histories. Moving between personal mythology, environmental reflection, archival recovery and social documentary, the selection reflects the breadth of contemporary photographic publishing.

Book of the Month: Mixedness is my Mythology by Farren van Wyk, published by Deadbeat Club and Fw:Books, explores identity, representation and self-definition through the artist’s South African-Dutch heritage. Bringing together family photographs, cultural references and reappropriated symbols, van Wyk constructs a personal mythology shaped by migration, diaspora and the politics of visibility.

Also featured:

– Pray to Be a Bird by Colin Sussingham, published by Friend Editions, reflects on the interconnectedness of people, nature, animals, objects and the spaces they inhabit, using biomimicry as a starting point for a meditation on time, permanence and relationship.

– L’Empremta de l’Aigua by Lucas Momparler, published by Handshake, emerges from the rescue of family photographs damaged by the 2024 DANA floods in Valencia and l’Horta Sud, transforming images marked by water and mud into a study of collective memory and resilience.

– Venezuelan Youth by Silvana Trevale, published by Guest Editions, offers a sustained portrait of children and adolescents in Venezuela, moving beyond familiar narratives of crisis to consider identity, hope and everyday life through the perspective of a younger generation.

– Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash by Jack Scollard, published by S**T Press, examines cruising spaces across Europe through collected objects, writing and research, situating desire within urban infrastructure, natural landscapes and the material traces of q***r encounter.

Together, these titles show how the photobook continues to operate as a space for historical recovery, political reflection and personal authorship, giving form to experiences often shaped by instability, inheritance and the search for belonging.

THE VENICE ISSUE IS OUT NOWIn the third edition of frieze dedicated to the Venice Biennale, we return to an exhibition t...
22/05/2026

THE VENICE ISSUE IS OUT NOW

In the third edition of frieze dedicated to the Venice Biennale, we return to an exhibition that has long reflected the tensions of its time. In a moment shaped by turmoil and war, this year's Biennale once again holds a mirror to the present.
Across our columns, we spotlight a new generation of artists grappling with displacement, identity and neo-imperialism, from Bugarin + Castle's defiantly q***r performances for Scotland t Sung Tie's incisive explorations of German-Vietnamese histories and Marina Xenofontos's reconstruction of a lost Cypriot nightclub.

Questions of national representation are reconsidered in '1,500
Words' by Lubaina Himid, who reframes the notion of representation as a 'way of thinking'. This theme resonates across the issue, from Lydia Ourahmane and Abbas Akhavan to a roundtable with performers questioning the role of the self in the politics of spectacle at a time when politics itself has become pure spectacle.
As Matthew Holman reflects in his essay on protest at the Biennale, 'The Biennale was created to bring the world to Venice. Rather, it brought the world's conflicts with it! This year will be no exception.

Issue 259 is available in stores and via the link in bio.



Cover Image: A tableau vivant after Giandomenico Tiepolo's I|
Mondo Novo (The New World), 2026. Courtesy: The Municipality of Venice and Vela S.p.A.; photograph: Matteo de Mayda

Winner Announced: Photo London Student Award 2026Photo London is delighted to announce Akanksya Dahal (), Ravensbourne U...
17/05/2026

Winner Announced: Photo London Student Award 2026

Photo London is delighted to announce Akanksya Dahal (), Ravensbourne University London, as the winner of the 2026 Photo London Student Award.

Dahal’s winning project, A Moment Left Unsaid: Stillness Amidst the Crowd, draws on documentary and street photography to explore the overlooked moments that shape everyday life. A London-born Nepalese photographer specialising in photojournalism and portraiture, Dahal brings together patience, observation and a cinematic sense of light to find emotional resonance in ordinary scenes.

This year, more than 80 students were nominated by course tutors at UK universities, with the final shortlist selected by a judging panel comprising Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian; Lisa Springer, Curator of Photography at the V&A; photographer Mimi Mollica; and Kimberly Hoang, Picture Editor at the British Red Cross.

The 2026 shortlist included Anna Bradshaw, Birmingham City University; Akanksya Dahal, Ravensbourne University London; Bo Fan, London College of Communication; and Madison Hafner, Falmouth University.

Congratulations to Akanksya and all of this year’s shortlisted artists.

Photo London’s Discovery section welcomes two galleries from Istanbul, presented with support from .Bringing together ph...
17/05/2026

Photo London’s Discovery section welcomes two galleries from Istanbul, presented with support from .

Bringing together photography, contemporary image-making and interdisciplinary practices, these spaces reflect different generations of Turkey’s cultural landscape, from long-standing institutions to newer galleries shaping contemporary visual culture in the city.

📍EVİN
📍Şule Gazioğlu Art & Design (.gaazioglu)

Founded in 1996, EVİN has become one of Istanbul’s defining contemporary art spaces, known for its artist-led approach, ambitious exhibitions and deep engagement with the relationship between art and society. Alongside it, Şule Gazioğlu Art & Design brings together contemporary art, design and historical influence through a programme shaped by material, atmosphere and collecting culture.

Photo London’s Discovery section welcomes three galleries from Turkey, presented with support from .Across photography, ...
17/05/2026

Photo London’s Discovery section welcomes three galleries from Turkey, presented with support from .

Across photography, image-making and mixed-media practices, these galleries reflect a contemporary Turkish art scene shaped by experimentation, dialogue and exchange.

📍Ambidexter
📍ArtRedCo
📍Bosfor

From Lale Tara’s shifting studies of identity, perception and representation, to gallery programmes rooted in artist development, site-specific thinking and new models of exhibition-making, each space expands the idea of what a gallery can be.

Nikon and British Journal of Photography present Female in Focus: capturing a world on the cusp of change.Following the ...
16/05/2026

Nikon and British Journal of Photography present Female in Focus: capturing a world on the cusp of change.

Following the opening of the latest edition of Female in Focus, this conversation brings together photographers Giya Makondo-Wills and Carolyn Mendelsohn with British Journal of Photography’s Zoe Harrison to explore photography’s role in documenting moments of transition, tension and anticipation. Through themes of identity, power, community and change, the discussion considers how photography can preserve the spaces between what has been and what is still unfolding.

Makondo-Wills will discuss her recent series New Scramble, examining the rapid expansion of data centres across South Africa and their impact on local communities and environments. Mendelsohn will reflect on her long-term portrait practice and her work photographing young people at pivotal stages in their lives. Together, the panel will consider the importance of documenting these in-between states, and what they reveal about both the present and the future.

Sunday 17 May 2026
2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Talks Room, Groundfloor, National Hall (G)

Tickets are £10 with a valid Photo London Day Ticket or Weekend Pass.

Nikon Workshops at Photo LondonToday and tomorrow, Photo London presents Presence as Form, a series of free workshops wi...
16/05/2026

Nikon Workshops at Photo London

Today and tomorrow, Photo London presents Presence as Form, a series of free workshops with Nikon UK and multidisciplinary artist Róża Wiktoria.

Set within an installation of photographic works and modular sculptural forms, the workshop explores the portrait as an abstract, spatial and architectural study. Participants will work across two set-ups, a portrait session with models and a modular still life, building sequences as bodies, garments, gestures and objects shift in relation to one another.

Workshops are free for Photo London ticket holders, with advance booking essential as spaces are limited.

Saturday 16 May
13:00 to 14:00
15:00 to 16:00

Sunday 17 May
13:00 to 14:00
15:00 to 16:00

Please note, workshop tickets do not include entry to the Fair. A valid Photo London Day Ticket or Weekend Pass is required for the corresponding day.

Image: © Róża Wiktoria

Details from a New ChapterIn the first days of Photo London’s new chapter at Olympia, the Fair has begun to find a diffe...
15/05/2026

Details from a New Chapter

In the first days of Photo London’s new chapter at Olympia, the Fair has begun to find a different rhythm. These images look to the details around the stands, corridors and public spaces, catching moments that sit just outside the formal view of the Fair.

The new setting has opened up the experience of Photo London. Visitors move through the Fair with greater ease, finding clear lines between sections, moments to pause and new ways of looking across the floor.

Change, here, feels measured, open and alive.

📸 Graham & Finn Carlow

Winner Announced: Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2026We are delighted to announce Steffi Reimers (), r...
14/05/2026

Winner Announced: Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2026

We are delighted to announce Steffi Reimers (), represented by Contour Gallery (.gallery), Rotterdam, as the winner of the 2026 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.

Reimers is a Dutch photographer whose long-term projects look at history, loss and the things that are often left out of sight.

Her winning project, Guilty Grounds, was made in Calabria, Southern Italy, and considers the landscape in relation to the crimes and influence of the ‘Ndrangheta. Working with specialised lighting, Reimers brings out traces in the land that might otherwise go unnoticed: marks, textures, fragments and signs of past violence.

The series asks how much a place can carry, and how photography might reveal what remains after an event has passed.

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