| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Photo London 2024 | | | Photo London brings the finest international photography to the British capital every year. The Fair presents the best historic and vintage works while also spotlighting fresh perspectives in photography. Along with a selection of the world’s leading photography dealers and galleries , Photo London’s Discovery section is dedicated to the most exciting emerging galleries and artists. In addition, each edition sees a unique Public Programme including special exhibitions and installations; and several Awards announced, headlined by the Photo London Master of Photography Award . Beyond the Fair, Photo London regularly hosts Pre-Fair Talks engaging with the craft, market and knowledge of photography and acts as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community, with major institutions, auction houses, galleries and the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London presenting a series of Satellite Events.
VIP Preview Day: Wednesday 15 May 1-9pm Public days: Thu 16 May 1-9pm; Fri 17 May 1-8pm; Sat 18 May 12-8pm; Sun 19 May 12-6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sim Chi Yin, Shifting Sands #25, 2017 © Sim Chi Yin | | | | Photo London Exhibitions » | | | Photo London is delighted to present ‘‘Art Collection Deutsche Börse @ 25’’, a celebration of the Deutsche Börse Photography collection’s 25th anniversary. Curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, and Renée Mussai, London-based independent curator and scholar, and member of the Foundation’s Advisory Board, this exhibition showcases current artistic positions and recent acquisitions centred around the theme of human condition.
The Public Programme Exhibitions also include ‘The Magic Art of French Calotype. Paper Negative Photography 1846 – 1860’ , an exhibition that celebrates the magic of early French photography and
‘Silent Stories’ , a solo show by this year’s Master of Photography, Valérie Belin , an exhibition spanning three decades of her work. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Martin Parr
Bowling, Bristol, 1995 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Martin Parr
Glenbeigh Races, County Kerry, Ireland, 1983 |
Martin Parr: HUNGARY. Budapest.
Szechenyi thermal baths Taken in the New Year, 2000 |
| | | | | | ROCKET, founded by Jonathan Stephenson in 1994, first collaborated with the internationally renowned British photographer Martin Parr in 1997 and has since presented 12 solo exhibitions by him. Other photographers included in the gallery programme include Matthias Hoch, Keld Helmer-Petersen and Paul Shambroom, alongside a roster of contemporary artists making paintings and sculpture, all of whom pursue an interest in colour. Second-generation gallerist Sid Stephenson started to curate at Rocket in 2021.
Rocket are showing a selection of colour and black & white photographs by Martin Parr from his recent Rocket exhibition "Sports & Spectatorship" alongside the newly published catalogue. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lydia Goldblatt
untitled from the series Fugue, 2020 - 2023 |
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Lydia Goldblatt
untitled from the series Fugue, 2020 - 2023 |
Lydia Goldblatt
untitled from the series Fugue, 2020 - 2023 |
| | | | | | ROBERT MORAT GALERIE will show a solo presentation of the latest series by British artist and photographer Lydia Goldblatt titled "Fugue". A body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance – told through photographs centering on the domestic space and made over the course of four years.
"I wanted to be honest about what I was struggling with, about the feelings of claustrophobia and rage, as much as intimacy and love. These are feelings so often hidden by mothers, so often silenced as unacceptable." (Lydia Goldblatt) | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sylvie Blum
Lips, 2001 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Rankin
Kate Moss, Cover, 2000 |
Gian Paolo Barbieri
Veruschka, Vogue Italia, Milano, 1975 |
| | | | | | 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery is pleased to return to Photo London with an exceptional group of rare vintage prints and unique works, many of which have never been exhibited before. Each one has a story to tell. Exhibited artists include Gian Paolo Barbieri, Sylvie Blum, Greg Gorman, Michel Haddi, and Rankin.
The international photographers exhibited have shaped the photographic and artistic aesthetics of their time and have dedicated their lives to illustrating some of the key players in the historical and cultural changes of the last Century, from fashion photography to timeless portraits and sculptural nudes. Rare platinum prints, original contact sheets, and Polaroid photographs, regardless of the changing trends, will enchant and delight the most demanding collectors and all those interested in photography as an "intimate" and one-ofa- kind object of art crafted with unique materials by leading world-famous photographers. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | John Reardon
Chefs' Last Supper, 2003 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Brian Griffin
Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979 |
Michael G Jackson
Under and Above, New York City, 2021 |
| | | | | | MMX Gallery will be showing a selection of works from their represented artists as well as previewing some new work.
Brian Griffin (1948-2024), the great British photographer who died earlier this year was famous for his ground-breaking approach to portraiture from Iggy Pop to Kate Bush, and numerous high profile projects stretching from "Work" in the 1980's to his project charting 'The Road to 2012', commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. "Work" went on to be awarded the Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991 and The Life magazine used the photograph "A Broken Frame" on its front cover of a special supplement "The Greatest Photographs Of The 80's". Throughout his career, over twenty monographs of Griffin's work have been published, his work has been the subject of over fifty international solo exhibitions and is held in institutional collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain, London; the British Council, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Art Museum Reykjavík, Iceland; the Mast Foundation, Bologna; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal. In 2009, Brian Griffin became the patron of FORMAT Festival and in 2013 he received the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography, and the following year he received an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University for his lifetime contribution to his home city.
John Reardon - (1951 - 2018) was a British photographer, born in Cape Town. He studied film and photography at Birmingham University. In 1979, he was part of the photographer's group who set up Ten 8 magazine - a seminal quarterly that focused on British photography, and lasted until 1993. Reardon collaborated to publish Home Front in 1984, published by Random House and later exhibited at The Photographer's Gallery. He began as a freelance photojournalist and picture editor in 1979. He started shooting for The Observer in the mid 1980s, beginning a distinguished career in photojournalism that saw him photographing war and humanitarian stories in Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, to name a few. In 1993, he joined the prestigious Independent Photographers Group set up by John Easterby. The same year, he left for war- torn Kabul, Afghanistan, and the outstanding results, displayed sumptuously in the Observer Magazine, saw his work gain global recognition at the World Press Awards. He continued to produce photo essays for the paper; including the war in Kosovo, and the aftermath of 9/11. In 2001, he began to produce ground-breaking portraits of chefs. His work is part of Autograph ABP (Handsworth Self Portraits, 1979 series) and the National Portrait Gallery collection in London including a famous "Last Supper" shot with 12 Michelin-starred chefs featuring Gordon Ramsay, Marcus Wareing, Michel Roux Jr and Raymond Blanc.
Michael G Jackson (b.1966) is an experimental photographer based in North Dorset, England. He studied art at West Dean College in Sussex, then apprenticed under landscape painter Christopher W Baker and later discovered his passion for photography. He moved away from working with traditional camera techniques in 2015 and is currently progressing the Luminogram process into new directions in which he has become regarded as a leading practitioner. His work has been exhibited internationally and is part of various private and museum collections including The National Art Gallery in Washington, USA. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Birgit N. Glatzel
TLV club #3, 2004
From the series South Side Beats TEL AVIV | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Birgit N. Glatzel
Eva, 2001
From the series a friend is a friend of a friend |
Birgit N. Glatzel
Vienna, 2006
From the series Ideal City |
| | | | | | | | nüüd.berlin gallery will be presenting a solo presentation of Birgit Naomi Glatzel’s work.
Birgit Naomi Glatzel (*1970 in Kempten/Allgäu, Germany) is a freelance conceptual artist and architect. She has worked mainly in the field of photography since 1998. She began her photo project a friend is a friend of a friend in the summer of 1998 and has attracted international attention. This project led her from Berlin around the globe to friends, their friends and friends of their friends. She spent a day with the friends she met and took photographs of them in their everyday surroundings, preferably their apartments. 340 people from 40 cities and 19 countries are part of the net and have been preserved on film.
"Kroc-gu-fant”" by Sara Ball is a children’s flip-book book that allows one to forge utterly strange creatures out of limbs of existing animals; a crocodile head attached to a jaguar’s body and elephant feet virtually constitute a new species. In her project Ideal City Birgit expands this concept to urban features: It creates a framework of public spaces in one image. The Project displays constructions, environments and features located in cities worldwide classified into three categories that are essential for modern living: commerce, traffic, recreation. When set in an unforeseen relation to each other stigmata of the traditional context vanish as new relationships unexpectedly coalesce. Ideal City is an ongoing modular project.
In 2004, Birgit Naomi Glatzel returned to Israel to photograph her DJ friends and some of their friends, to tell one of many Tel Aviv stories. The photographs of her series South Side Beats are timeless and show the longings of people all over the world: peace and joy.
Among others Birgit’s works have been shown at the Tirana Biennale, the Venice Biennale, in Berlin (including at the Jewish Museum), Jerusalem, Paris, Kiev and at Photo London 2024. She lives and works in Berlin. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rala-Choi
A Woman lying on the sofa, 2018 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Danielle Kwaaitaal
Soil, 2023 |
Paula & Hendrik Kerstens
Green Turban, 2018 |
| s | | | | | Rala Choi is a photographer, whose vivid, ethereal images draw on the legacies of art history. Through a colour palate saturated with a painterly quality, Rala Choi's photographs create expressive depictions of our inner worlds and relationships. Following a successful few years in which Choi has had two sold-out solo shows in Seoul, the South Korean photographer was recently awarded the Grand Prix at the 37th International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories, Hyères, which was exhibited at the Villa Noailles in 2022.
The photos that Hendrik Kerstens takes of his daughter Paula Kerstens have become iconic, world-famous works of art. What once started as a form of family photography, and then became a dialogue with the historical portraiture of the Low Countries, is now entering a new phase. Paula, now an adult, is gradually taking more control of her self-image. Paula has slowly become a series of self-portraits, one that celebrates the age-old game in front of the mirror, as new looks, styles and roles are constantly explored. Now a family business, the Kerstens continue to develop their work every day.
Danielle Kwaaitaal is an artist and photographer from Amsterdam. From 1984, she studied pattern drawing at the Bijenvelt fashion academy in Amsterdam. After an audiovisual course at the Rietveld Academy, she graduated in 1991 with the series "Bodylogos". She edited the photographic shots of herself first manually and later by computer. She explored the boundaries of photography with her digitally processed photographs. The female body, beauty and water were often the subjects. Her series "Bubbling" (1994) shows images consisting of body parts immersed underwater in interplay with air bubbles. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Melanie Issaka
From the series Blueprint: Black Skin, White Mask | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Peter Bialobrzeski
London Diary 2 |
| | | | | | At this year's Photo London, Galerie—Peter—Sillem is featuring a selection from Peter Bialobrzeski's "London Diary" project (2022), a two-time winner of the World Press Photo Award, complemented by two of his coastal impressions from the Baltic Sea. A wintry scene reminiscent of Brueghel from his iconic series Heimat serves as the finishing touch.
In addition, a selection from Melanie Issaka's series "Blueprint: Black Skin White Mask" will be presented, comprising four staged self-portraits alongside one of the original cyanotypes she employs in her photography. "Blueprint: Black Skin, White Mask" delves into the social and political dimensions of Blackness, whiteness, and the spaces in between. Melanie Issaka (b. 1994, Ghana) is a visual artist based in London, United Kingdom. She attained her Photography MA from the Royal College of Art. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jacquie Maria Wessels
Fringe Nature #10.5/2019 Amsterdam, the Netherlands | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Jacquie Maria Wessels
Garage Still #10/2014 Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
Jacquie Maria Wessels
Garage Still #05/2016 Napoli, Italy |
| | | | | | At Photo London 2024, Galerie Baudelaire (Antwerp, BE) proudly presents a solo show with photography by the Dutch artist Jacquie Maria Wessels from her analogue series Garage Stills and Fringe Nature. Her painterly images with a surprising colour palette and lighting are as rough as they are poetic.
For her Garage Stills project, Wessels has travelled round the world, to places including Japan, Cambodia, Poland, South Africa, Italy, Belgium, Cuba, Sri Lanka and the Netherlands, chasing her fascination for the wondrous universe of traditional auto repair garages in various cultures. In classic, striking garages she creates still lifes on the spot with the intriguing and personal objects she finds there. It is the shapes and the colours of those mysterious pieces that draw her attention. At the same time, the images bear witness to a disappearing, predominantly male world.
Wessels then turned her camera outside and started to work on her new photographic series Fringe Nature: in the immediate vicinity of the garages, she is struck by the nature that endures in the harsh, industrial landscapes on the outskirts of the cities. Although the viewer’s sensation is one of being immersed in a wild and natural place, small details within these images – a crane, a chimney or an abandoned rusty car – betray the presence of a factory or auto repair garage. Her precisely composed photographs show nature’s drive to reclaim its own space. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vikram Kushwah
Boys tidying their hair, 2019 | | | | | | |
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Sebastian Edge
Thom Yorke, 2012
From the series Radiohead Portraits |
Sebastian Edge
Jonny Greenwood, 2012
From the series Radiohead Portraits |
| | | | | | Vikram Kushwah had never visited the school where his father had tought for 35 years. Only when Vikram told his father that he wanted to do a photo story before his father retired the following year did he begrudgingly arrange a visit. At this year's Photo London Notton is honoured to be showing Kushwah’s deeply personal photographic project "The Education I Never Had" as a feature presentation at the fair. The series is a homage to Kushwah’s father, the school where he worked and parental sacrifices.
The series "RADIOHEAD: The Collodion Wet-Plate Portraits" by Sebastian Edge were taken using the 19th century wet plate collodion photographic process, using the artist’s hand-built camera. The ancient English woodland has been an inspiration and photographic subject for Sebastian for many years, so he was a natural fit for the band when invited to capture images for their forthcoming album written about a thousand year old oak tree.
Founded in 2023, London-based Notton gallery represents an intimate roster of emerging and established contemporary artists working across various mediums including painting, print-making, works on paper and photography. | | |
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