Outside of Photo London there are several photography museum exhibitions around town to visit when one tires of Somerset House. They include Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers at the Barbican, Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century at the V&A, and Double Take: Drawing and Photography, a collaborative, two-venue exhibition between The Photographer’s Gallery and Drawing Room. The Photographer’s Gallery is also exhibiting the four finalists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016 (my favorite of the four was Trevor Paglen).
The most interesting was Double Take (April 15 – July 3), which focuses on the relationship between the mediums of drawing and photography and displays works by 18 artists from the 20th century to the present day. According to the exhibition synopsis:
