The Photographers' Gallery

This week is your last chance to view the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 exhibition!

The 2025 shortlisted projects feature documentary photography, constructed images, self-portraiture, performance and family archives. Themes of migration, community and belonging, intergenerational traditions and rituals, family memories and histories are brought together in this powerful shortlist.

Closing Sunday - book tickets now to ensure your entry!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-2025

Coinciding with International Archives Day today, we've opened up bookings for the newest 'Starting an Archive' course, starting 23 September!

Archives and archivists play an important role in accountability, transparency, democracy, heritage, memory and society.

Over six weeks, this practical online course explores what it means to archive material today – working with physical and/or digital material. Led by our Archivist, Kathryn Tollervey, you'll get to look at the processes of digitisation and preservation for both digital and physical material, as well as an exploration of digital solutions for different types of collections.

The course will feature a range of guest speakers including: Weronika Kobylińska, Karl Ohiri and Riika Kassinen from Lagos Studio Archives, Marysia Lewandowska, Lydia Heeley with more to be confirmed!

Visit our website to learn more about the course and to book now!
📆 Tuesday 23 September - Tuesday 28 October 2025

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/online-course-starting-archive-2025

Join us on Saturday 28 June, for a resource launch event aimed at art educators, looking at the creative and critical use of image-based AI in Art & Design.

New digital tools, such as Generative AI, are easily available to young people through everyday media and yet little formal guidance exists for how students can use these technologies safely or responsibly.

The Ways of [Machine] Seeing project, inspired by John Berger's influential work Ways of Seeing, offers a guide to best practice for secondary school teacher training and curriculum development. The session will aim to inform and explore the use of AI in the classroom.

Register for free on our website!
📆 Saturday 28 June, 2-5pm

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/teachers-resource-launch-exploring-genai-and-visual-literacy

Join us next Friday in the bookshop for a book signing with Hong Kong based photographer, Wing Shya to coincide with the release of his brand new publication Day / Night!

Day / Night presents over 100 Polaroids taken over the last three decades. Included in this edition are personal, never before seen daily observations and intimate portraits alongside images taken whilst working as a stills photographer for film director Wong Kar-wai.

Wing Shya, began his collaboration with the renowned movie director, Wong Kar-Wai in 1997 when he was appointed as the exclusive photographer and graphic designer.

The day collection conjures a purity and lightness in spirit, while the night collection purveys a darker and more mysterious mood. Both capture the spontaneity in life and the subtle energy of day time and night time.

Event starts at 6pm and is free to attend!

Check out an artist's response to winner, Lindokuhle Sobekwa's publication, I carry Her photo with Me on our website now!

In a commissioned written piece, artist and researcher, Florenza Deniz İncirli, responds to the themes of grief that permeate throughout the project, discussing what it means to construct a fragmented archive of a person who refused to be documented. (Article is available in the link in bio!)

Gain further insight into Lindokuhle's artistic practice in an online artist talk next Monday, tied to our exhibition, which closes Sunday 15 June!

Lindokuhle will be discussing his journey as a photographer, his commitment to storytelling, and the impact of his work on both local and global audiences, exploring themes of community and belonging.

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-lindokuhle-sobekwa-online-0

Want to know how to secure financial support for your creative projects? Not sure where to begin? ✍️

Join our Develop career talk on 26 June with artist and facilitator Becky Warnock as she shares practical tips on writing funding applications and navigating where to start your search.

Whether you're just beginning or looking to sharpen your approach, this session will give you the tools and confidence needed to put together a successful funding application!

Visit our website to book your tickets now! 🔗

Please note: This event is apart of our Develop programme for 18-24 year-olds.

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/develop-career-talk-getting-funding

How can we shift the way technology sees — and how we see technology?

Join us for a one-day symposium bringing together artists, researchers, activists and technologists to discuss how creative practices can challenge and reflect on the power of AI and data-driven technologies.

From reimagining lost histories, to disrupting surveillance systems with experimental photography, to exposing the logic behind machine-generated images, the day focuses on tactics that resist control and open space for new stories, voices and futures.

Co-organised by the Sound/Image/Media Encounters Group (SIME) of the Centre for Practice Research in the Arts (CePRA), Kingston University, London, and Queen Mary University of London.

Visit our website for more information on the full schedule of talks and sessions and to book your tickets now!

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/symposium-material-memory-and-ai-archive

Take a journey through the lexicon of photography in a new course exploring its pasts, presents and potential futures.

An A to Z of Photography, led by Stephen Bull, is an engaging and insightful course starting Monday 30 June. The six week course will introduce key ideas, debates and figures that have shaped photography.

The course will cover the medium’s historical development, different movements and styles — from portraiture, landscape and documentary photography to contemporary art and more experimental approaches to image-making — and the influence of technology.

Whether you're looking to develop your own practice, or explore visual culture from a new angle, this course can expand your understanding of photography!

Head to our website to book your place now!

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/course-z-photography

Don't miss our artist talk tomorrow evening with the Planetary Portals collective coinciding with their current exhibition, I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine - on show until 15 June!

They will be in conversation with writer/researcher, Marcus Gilroy-Ware as they discuss their interdisciplinary approach to visualising memory and time within the AI archive.

Planetary Portals, comprises of artists Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Michael Salu and Kaythryn Yusoff. Their work spans social geography, anthropology and design, critically examining how various histories intersect with contemporary digital technologies and AI.

The exhibition interrogates the enduring colonial legacies and environmental trauma associated with 19th century mining in South Africa.

Head to our website to book tickets now!
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-planetary-portals-0

Spend an evening with Beijing-based artist Lin Zhipeng (aka. No.223) this Thursday in our bookshop as he celebrates the 20th anniversary of his photobook, La Liberté ou L’Amour!

From 2004 to 2023, No. 223 has crafted a unique artistic world through his photographic vision. This 20th-anniversary photobook is more than a retrospective—it is an exploration of artistic freedom and the timeless vitality of youth. It invites readers to reflect on the past while embracing the enduring creative spirit that defines No. 223’s work.

The number “223” becomes a symbolic thread, subtly woven through the book’s structure. The photobook features a blend of new and old, iconic and obscure, showcasing the depth of his creativity while leaving room for interpretation. This process of selection is as much about the act of curation as it is about revealing the evolution of his artistic language.

Free, event starts 6:30pm
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/book-launch-talk-signing-lin-zhipeng-no-223-la-liberte-ou-lamour

Each month we look back and re-share highlights from our takeovers.

In May, we featured works by Alma Haser, Yasuhiko lida, Mehaira Abdelhamid and Marcia Michael.

📎Alma uses analogue processes such as paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around my subjects. Her series, “Everything Has an End, Only the Sausage Has Two.” which is currently on show at explores the quirks of German idioms, their origins, and their often unexpected English translations.

🛹With an eye for poetic moments of stillness amongst the chaotic backdrop of city life, Yasuhiko’s work presents an intimate, unvarnished portrait of skate culture, selfhood, nature, nightlife, love and friendship set across London, Tokyo and New York. For his images, he used the Canon SureShot Sleek camera.
🧣Mehaira focuses on blending fashion and art to create stories that highlight underrepresented cultures and identities through her lens as a young, black hijabi woman. Her images were shot on a Canon 6D Mark ii⁠, Nikon D3300 and Nikon Z6ii⁠.

🖼️Marcia’s work guides the viewer on a journey through temporal dimensions, weaving together Black feminism, intergenerational visuality, African diasporic traditions, and the representation of the Black mothering body. For her work she used a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (DSLR) Camera and an analogue twin-lens reflex (TLR) Rolleiflex camera. ⁠
Our TPG Takeovers every weekend expand upon current conversations in photography and showcase work or projects which align with what’s on at the Gallery now.

TPG Takeovers are supported by MPB , the world’s largest global platform for used camera gear.

This month, we say goodbye to Peter Mitchell, DBPFP and Planetary Portals as our spring exhibitions come to an end on 15 June, so don’t miss your chance to view all three shows before they close.

☀️But on the brighter side, we’re welcoming our summer shows on Friday 27 June: Dennis Morris: Music + Life, and Felicity Hammond: V3 Model Collapse. Visit our website now to book advance tickets now!

Our newest outdoor display in Soho Photography Quarter, Lisa Barnard: The Canary and the Hammer is available to view for free everyday, outside of the gallery!

📚And with a number of book launches/signings, head to our bookshop online and on-site where you can browse our extensive range of exhibition related products and books!

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