16 Photo Exhibitions To Visit This Spring
Spring is well and truly underway and it even looks like the sun is trying to make an appearance. What better time to leave the comfy confines of your home to go out and explore the best of arts and culture the UK has to offer. From London to Edinburgh, here are 16 fantastic photography exhibitions to feast your eyes on.
Foundling Museum
London
Until April 30th
Mark Neville questions what it is to be a child in his photo book and exhibition Child’s Play. He documents from the UK to Ukraine, showing us the environmental factors that children are brought up in and uses his project to encourage the need for play in children’s lives.
Mark Neville, 'The Frog Pond at Toffee Park Adventure Playground, London, 2', 2016, courtesy Mark Neville
Photographers Gallery
London
Until June 11th
2017 celebrates 20 years of the Deutsche Börse prize celebrating photography at its best. With a copious amount of talent on show, this is something not to be missed, with work to suit anyone from Sophie Calle to Dana Lixenberg.
Well, 2013 © Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs Courtesy of the artists
Toussaint, 1993 © Dana Lixenberg Courtesy of the artist and Grimm, Amsterdam
Tate Modern
London
Until June 11th
Contemporary artist Tillmans displays a variety of his favourite works throughout a series of rooms including photography, video and musical pieces. Tillmans lays bare his mind on the walls pushing the boundaries of photography.
Wolfgang Tillmans, La Palma 2014
Whitechapel Gallery
London
4th - 16th April
This exhibitions displays work from seventeen contemporary female artists from around the world. It is a female only show which turns the camera on women, by women, reflecting identity and experiences. Featuring works by Rineke Dijkstra to Nan Goldin
Hellen van Meene, Untitled (79), (2000) © Hellen van Meene and Yancey Richardson Gallery. Photo: Lee Stalsworth.
Derby
24th March – 23rd April
Spanning across 30 of Derby’s historic and beautiful buildings, Format Festival encourages the community to engage with an Array of artists. With this years theme of Habitat, the artists are exploring the theme including existence, displacement, heritage within our world.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh
29th April – 29th April 2018
Ruscha has been one of the most influential of his time across the board of painting photography and drawing. The national gallery of Scotland will be presenting a large span of his work including his series Thirty Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles.
Ed Rusha: Swimming Pools. ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. 2011
Ed Rusha: 26 Gas Stations. Panhandle Series. (1962 / 2007)
Liverpool International Photography Festival
Open Eye Gallery
Liverpool
7th April – 14th May
This international photography festival offers an array of work focusing on the Cities of Exchange between Liverpool and Hong Kong. It will feature work from Chinese and English photographers across both cities celebrating the diversity of cultures and the influence of each on their long history of exchanges.
Luke Ching, L30AN. Culture Shifts: Global. Photo by Rob Battersby
Derek Man. Culture Shifts: Global. Photo by Rob Battersby
Somerset House
London
18th – 21st May
Named the UK photography event of the year, this is not to be missed. With work from known galleries and photographers, its also a chance for new emerging exhibitors to show their work. Includes exhibitions, installations and talks. Also keep an eye out for work by one of our favourite artists Juno Calypso featured in #PHOTOGRAPHY Mag Issue 3 and Issue 13
Maisie Cousins. From the series 'grass, peonie, bum' 2016. Exhibited by TJ Boulting at Photo London
Juno Calypso. From the series Sensory Deprivation 2016. Exhibited by TJ Boulting at Photo London
Paloma Navares, Canciçon de Geisha, III 2008. Exhibited by Blanca Berlín at Photo London
Jellie Piece Cafe and Art Space
Edinburgh
3rd – 29th April
A solo exhibitions of creative and striking portraits taking inspiration from theater, film and literature by Anneleen Lindsay, winner in nationwide exhibition - British Journal of Photography presents Portrait of Britain. Anneleen is who has been previously featured in the New York Times and Evening Standard is definitely one to keep on your radar.
RISEgallery
Croydon
4th May – 4th June
With its first photographic exhibitions, RISE Gallery is presenting a selection of photographs from the 20th Century exploring the purpose of photography, the familiarity of it and the ability to capture fleeting moments. The exhibitions features work from Steve McCurry to Helmut Newton.
Gun 1, New York, William Klein, 1955
Hiroshi Sugimoto. Walker, New York, 1978
Susan Derges, 'Full Moon', 2006, The Sky-Scapes
Saatchi Gallery
London
31st March - 30th May
This show is one of the first exhibitions to showcase photographs exploring the history of the selfie up until the present day. This exhibition showcases the history and the highly influential digital age of the selfie together in one show.
Installation Shots | From Selfie to Expression at Saatchi Gallery
University Of Suffolk Arts Café
Until April 15th
To celebrate their first birthday Photograd has produced an exhibition of their featured artists, all photography graduates from their website over at the university of Suffolk. Head over to the exhibition to see the work in person and then learn more about the featured photographers on their website. Only on Monday so get down quickly!
(From left to right: Liam Collins, Christina Stohn, Victoria Chetley, Marie-Louise Garratt, Jocelyn Allen, Leticia Batty, Matt MacPake, Alastair Bartlett)
Beaconsfield Gallery
London
18th May – 18th June
Foam presents 24 international photographers under the age of 35 to exhibit at the Beaconsfield gallery. This exhibitions aim to promote and identify new young talent from across the globe previously exhibiting careers of prominent UK artists Felicity Hammond, Juno Calypso, Jack Davison and Leo Maguire.
Rose Alba by Leo Maguire selected for Foam Magazine Talent call
Louise Parker - Vogue Italia, from the series Pieces of Me selected for Foam Magazine Talent call
White Cloth Gallery
Leeds
12th April – 8th June
This solo exhibition by Debbie Harman explores the relationship between her home town of Goole, Yorkshire and its twinned town of Zlotow, Poland. This project follows her journey of finding similarities and differences between the landscapes while over coming the language barrier and cultural differences.
Timm Tower, Debbie Harman
Hudson Ward, Debbie Harman
Caustic Coastal
Salford
24th - 27th May
Rendition is a photographic exhibition curated by second year photography students from Manchester School of Art. This student collective has formed to create a promising photography exhibition exploring the realm of representation, intertwining issues in regards to gender, race, identity and the landscape leaving nothing untouched.
Mandala Photogram, 2015, Amy Smith. Rendition Exhibitor Michael Sampson, Varda. Rendition Exhibitor
Mandala Photogram, 2015, Amy Smithers. Rendition Exhibitor
From Dusk Till Dawn, Lucy Cooper. Rendition Exhibitor
Modern Art Oxford
Oxford
2nd May — 2nd July
Arts at the Old Fire Station and Modern Art Oxford present the first major exhibition of portraits by photographer Kazem Hakimi.
Well known in the East Oxford community, Hakimi has been taking photographs for 30 years; for the past two years he has been working specifically on the OX4 project presented in these exhibitions. Hakimi has recorded his community by posing his customers against the same white wall at the back of his fish and chip shop on the Iffley Road in East Oxford.
