The Power of Resistance
Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist-filmmaker Steve McQueen is dedicated to acts of protest and the role of photography in documenting change.
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Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist-filmmaker Steve McQueen is dedicated to acts of protest and the role of photography in documenting change.
London-based photographer Christopher Hope-Fitch takes the city’s Brutalist architecture and illuminates it to create vibrant and unique technicolour images.
This list highlights some key photo festivals taking place this season, offering visual perspectives on the human experience and pressing issues of our times.
Collect Art Fair is the leading international platform for contemporary craft and design. This year, the event returns to Somerset House with 400 names.
Leigh Bowery rocked the 1980s art scene with his outlandish costumes and shocking performances, leaving a legacy that continues to shape culture.
Maya Rochat’s show at Photo Elysée immerses viewers in a sensory exploration, juxtaposing nature’s grandeur with human made confines.
Silvia Rosi’s photography takes inspiration from African stage portraiture, exploring issues of migration, identity and collective memory.
The first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work opens in the Netherlands, examining themes of control, displacement and fragile human existence.
Reine Paradis is known for a distinct aesthetic and bold colour palette, and her new series continues to explore these concepts with meticulous detail.
This winter, five unmissable photography exhibitions across the UK cast new light on often overlooked and neglected people, communities and histories.
An ambitious and wide-reaching showcase at London’s Saatchi Gallery surveys the enduring influence of flowers across various art disciplines.
Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Breathing with the Forest, which is now on display at Compton Verney, recreates part of the Amazon rainforest in-gallery.
The Light Festival 2025 at Battersea Power Station brings joy to dark winter nights, fusing art and technology whilst illuminating an iconic location.
Richard Mosse’s new exhibition at MMoCA immerses viewers in haunting landscapes, blending environmental decay with evocative visual poetry.
Iconic photographer Weegee documented the spectacle of both gritty crimes and accidents, as well as the clamour around mid-century Hollywood.
Artist, provocateur, trailblazer. The first London retrospective of acclaimed British artist Linder opens this February at The Hayward Gallery.
Felicia Simion’s mysterious photography blurs the line between fantasy and reality, placing anonymous figures into strange and ethereal locations.
Discover five new art and photo books from established figures and new names, each of which tell an important story of life in the modern world.
Saul Leiter is one of the most celebrated pioneers of colour photography. This winter, he is the subject of a major retrospective at Foam in Amsterdam.
