UK Photography Galleries | Exhibitions

Over his 50-year career, Terry O'Neill has snapped nearly every iconic figure. This exhibition sees famous 60s images with rare and unseen shots of models such as Kate Moss.

Gallery One and a Half is pleased to announce acclaimed photographer Laura Pannack’s first London solo show. In this exhibition, Pannack takes us inside the covert and secret world of young British naturists. This project does not showcase vulnerability, but the strength of a minority and the nature of personal liberty.

Utilising the city of Berlin as site for exploration, 'a here and a there' is a photographic exhibition exploring how fourteen photographers affiliated with the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Goldsmiths, University of London combine their photographic practices with the activity of ‘walking’ in the city. 

The exhibition, curated by David Kendall and Lanis Levy, was part of Urban Encounters 2010, organised by CUCR in partnership with Tate Britain, Openvizor and Viewfinder Photography Gallery.

See details about the exhibition here 

The festival features 18 exhibitions and over 30 events at some of London’s most celebrated venues. It includes the Gaddafi Archives exhibition and a chance to attend Nick Turpin’s popular workshops.

Historic archives, contemporary installations, multimedia work, portfolio reviews and a variety of workshops, will ensure that every photography lover will find something of interest within the programme.

The exhibition, which has never before been seen in the UK, hosts 146 of some of the most recognised film images in the world.

The collection includes masterpieces such as Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight, Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch, Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without A Cause, Orson Welles’s The Trial, John Huston’s Moby Dick, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, and many more.

Burn My Eye is an international street photography collective made up of members from various  countries including Greece, England, Taiwan and the USA. Their aim is to show the extraordinary within the ordinary using candid street photography.

The London Festival of Photography is the first exhibition of this global outfit whose collective bodies of work fit well within the festival's roots and current theme. Street photography is very much about shining a mirror to society, and each photographer shows an invaluable insight into a slice of life from their respective countries.

Richard Mosse’s Infra project uses obsolete military surveillance technology, a type of infrared colour film called Kodak Aerochrome, to investigate ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Originally created to detect targets for aerial bombing, Kodak Aerochrome film registered a spectrum of light beyond what the human eye can see, rendering foliage in vivid hues of lavender, crimson and hot pink.

Incorporating music, fashion art and film, Paul Spencer captures the edge and essence of cult with his oily blue-green otherworldly portraits and atmospheric black and white documentary images of rare and unseen photography including mods, punks, bikers, outlaws and gangsters. 

Also included are photographs from the world of fashion, film, theatre and music including John Lydon, Elvis Costello and Morrissey. 

The exhibition enables visitors to take a visual journey around the globe, through the eyes of amateur and professional photographers who beat entrants from more than 90 countries to take top places in the awards.

A collection of David Dunnico's photographs documenting the rise of CCTV surveillance in the UK, as well as a collection of ephemera about George Orwell's novel 1984.

On The Wall is a group show of 13 photography graduates working within the approaches of documentary, fine art, landscape and staged photography.

This exhibition celebrates the conclusion of their studies on the BA (Hons) Photography programme.

Street photography by David Solomons.

The exhibition will feature historic pictures from the Getty Images Hulton Archive of The Queen at the Abbey from young princess to reigning monarch. It will cover the many occasions which have brought The Queen to the Abbey, from every decade since the early years of her childhood, including a photograph of Princess Elizabeth, aged 11, standing with great poise at the coronation of her father, King George VI, knowing that one day she too would be crowned in the church.

The films and photographs of British artist Gillian Wearing explore our public personas and private lives. This Turner Prize winner’s remarkable works draw on fly-on-the-wall documentaries, reality TV and the techniques of theatre, to explore how we present ourselves to the world.

Wearing’s portraits and mini-dramas reveal a paradox, given the chance to dress up, put on a mask or act out a role, the liberation of anonymity allows us to be more truly ourselves.