The Comune di Verona is delighted to welcome the Prix Pictet to the Palazzo della Gran Guardia from 18 February to 24 March 2021. Having previously exhibited in Milan, Rome and Turin, the Prix Pictet comes to Verona for the first time in a large-scale show of Hope, the eighth cycle of the award. The twelve shortlisted photographers in the…
Photo London 2021 has been rescheduled from May to 9–12 September 2021, with a preview day on 8 September. The fair will be held at Somerset House as programmed. Since the start of the year, the Founders of Photo London have engaged in detailed discussions with expert advisers from various fields, including science and government, regarding the timing of the…
Gift ideas from the Photo London exhibitors Books, photographs and more under £1000 Alexander Mourant, Blue Tree, From the series Aomori, 2017 42cm x 34cm; Edition of 9£850 at Seen Fifteen Aomori, meaning “blue forest”, is a series of photographs made in the vast ancestral forests of Japan. Concerned with the metaphysical nature of photography, Alexander Mourant employs experimental methods to intensify…
Photo by Graham Carlow. Applications for Photo London 2021 are now open. The sixth edition of the will return to Somerset House, London, from 13-16 May 2021. The fair will continue to present powerful photography of the very highest standard to a global audience. Through strong curation by individual galleries, Photo London aims to ensure a 2021 edition that is…
Prix Pictet announces ‘Fire’ as the theme for the ninth cycle of the award. As Chair Stephen Barber explains, the choice of theme is timely. “Fire has hardly been out of the news since the inferno that consumed Notre Dame in Paris in early 2019. We have seen record rainforest blazes in the Amazon, forest and bush fires in Australia…
Joseph Clarke, An eye into Autumn. Congratulations to Joseph Clarke for winning the H&M Membership x Photo London Emerging Photography competition with his image titled ‘An eye into Autumn’. Fariba Farshad, co-founder of Photo London and jury member, commented: “Our congratulations to the winners. We look forward to welcoming you to Somerset House for Photo London in May next year.” We…
Ormond Gigli, Girls in the Windows, 1960. Courtesy Holden Luntz Gallery; Claire Aho Surprise, ca. 1958. © and Courtesy Aho & Soldan Photo and Film Foundation; Georges Rousse, Kochi, 2018. © the Artist Courtesy GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN; Ernst Scheidegger, Alberto Giacometti at work in his atelier, Paris, ca. 1957. Courtesy Suite 59 Gallery; Yannis Davy Guibinga, The First Woman III,…
Image: Nikon By Andrew Barber (OmniStyle). Photo London is delighted to announce the Emerging Photographer of the Year Award 2020, in partnership with Nikon Northern Europe. The prize was launched during the first edition of Photo London in 2015. It is awarded to a young artist showing at Photo London. Previous award winners have included Daisuke Yokata, Thibaut Brunet and…
© Robbie Lawrence Courtesy Webber Gallery Saturday 17 October, 6 pm BST on the Photo London Instagram channel,@photolondonfair. Free, no registration required. In 2016 Robbie Lawrence travelled to a remote stretch of coastline in the west coast of Scotland, to Linn Gardens, which lies at the head of Cove Bay on the west side of Rosneath peninsula. The gardens had…
Drum Cover Girl, Erlin Ibreck, at Trafalgar Square, London. 1966. Courtesy Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière © James Barnor. Thursday, 15 October 11 am BST – online panel discussion, registration required (free). Register here Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, will be in conversation with British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, about his life and…