Top 10 photography exhibitions in London
Discover a world beyond Instagram at the city's best
current and upcoming photography shows
London's cultural
menu doesn't start and finish with paint on canvas – experience a whole new
world of artistic awesomeness at these blockbuster photography exhibitions,
taking place at venues including The Photographer's Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.
1. Alex MacLean:
Aerial Perspectives
Expansive European and American vistas are reduced to perplexingly detailed
images by this remarkable aerial photographer who uses a Cessna 182 carbon
fibre aeroplane to get the perfect birds eye view of the world.
Beetles &
Huxley 3-5 Swallow Street, W1B 4DE, Until Sat Mar 29
2. David Lynch: The
Factory Photographs
The film director
who’s made weird cool is also a dab hand at photography. As you might expect,
he brings his intrigue of the uncanny to this series of grainy black and white
photographs of dilapidated factories shot in Germany, Poland and New York.
Photographers'
Gallery 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW, Tue Mar 11 - Sun
Mar 30
3. Darren Almond:
To Leave a Light Impression
Time is of the
essence in Almond’s ethereal landscapes that are shot on long exposures in
moonlight. Travelling to every continent, unrelated vistas take on the look of
Romantic landscape paintings.
White Cube
Bermondsey 144-152 Bermondsey St, SE1 3TQ, Tue Mar 11 - Sun
Apr 13
4. Harry Callahan
If you want to see
the beauty of a boarded-up building or the austere grace of a windowframe,
Harry Callahan’s your man. A master of multiple exposure (many of the
photographs here are layered with ghost images), Callahan was also capable of
disconcerting concentration on objects that most people wouldn’t bother to call
subjects – a lamppost, a flagpole, a Florentine alleyway.
Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1 9TG, Tue Mar 11 - Sat
May 31
5. Giacomo
Brunelli: Eternal London
An exclusive black
and white commission for the gallery’s Print Sales celebrates our capital in
the Italian photographer’s film noir style.
Photographers'
Gallery 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW, Tue Mar 11 - Sun
Apr 27
6. Allan Forsyth:
Vivid Light
Flora and fauna
comes alive in this spellbinding exhibition. The Scottish artist revels in
photographic techniques that create awe-inspiring images of birds in flights,
buds opening in bloom and butterflys resting on blossom. His lenticular prints
create incredible depth with mesmerising effects and his photogram’s add a
splash of Technicolor to the normally monochromatic results.
Gallery Elena
Shchukina 10 Lees Place,, W1K 6LL, Until Fri Mar 28
7. Chalkie Davies:
Goes Click
Stunning
black-and-white photographs of music icons from Bowie, Blondie and Springstein
to Thin Lizzy, The Clash and The Specials by the portrait snapper who started
out his photogrpahic career as the NME staff photogrpaher in 1975.
Snap Galleries
12 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH, Sat Mar 15 - Sat
Apr 26
8. Eyewitness
The Pulitzer
Prize-winning photographers in this show have the ability to capture
blink-of-an-eye moments creating timeless and significant documents of our
cultural and political history.
Daniel Blau
51 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB, Tue Mar 11 - Sat Mar
29
9. Boomoon
The South Korean’s
large format photographs beautifully capture the infinite presence of nature.
Boomoon, who works in Seoul, is inspired by ‘sansu’ meaning ‘mountain-water,
which is a central idea of Far-Eastern depictions of nature relating to its
metaphysical characteristics.
Flowers Central
21 Cork St, W1S 3LZ, Until Sat Apr 5
10. Vee Speers
Revered by fashion
legend Karl Lagerfeld, the Australian artist creates an air of 1920s Parisian
decadence in her series on former bordellos.
The Little Black
Gallery 13a Park Walk, SW10 0AJ, Tue Mar 11 - Sat
Apr 12
