Photo London marks its 10th anniversary this week with a special edition celebrating London and its rich traditions of photography. The Fair returns to Somerset House, which is celebrating its 25th birthday as an international arts destination, from 15-18 May 2025, once again gathering the world’s leading galleries and artists to present the best of photography and explore the medium’s future possibilities.
Photo London Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, said: “We are excited to be welcoming such a strong group of international galleries for our landmark tenth edition at Somerset House, including several that have participated in every Fair since the very beginning, and others returning after an absence especially to celebrate this landmark moment with us. We are set to host our largest ever number of collectors and acquisition groups from across the world, attracted by our special anniversary programme including a major exhibition celebrating London and its rich traditions of photography that platforms the city itself as this year’s Master of Photography. This exhibition is a testament to all that Photo London has achieved in its first decade during which we have worked closely with the photography community to establish London as an important global hub for the medium. We also celebrate the important role of the book in the photography ecosystem through the creation of a weekend book market for independent publishers, and further expand our long tradition of support for emerging artists through the launch of the new Positions section of the Fair providing a platform for unrepresented artists supported by collectors.”
Photo London 2025 has confirmed a strong list of international participants featuring several galleries that have exhibited at every edition of the Fair since 2015 including: Robert Hershkowitz Ltd (Lindfield) bringing a selection of historic images of London; Flowers Gallery (London) curating a booth exploring the landscape genre featuring Elger Esser, Edward Burtynsky. Nadav Kander. Simon Roberts and Esther Teichmann among others; Purdy Hicks Gallery (London) presenting a booth dedicated to women artists and the environment featuring new works by Kathrin Linkersdorff and Sandra Kantanen; and CAMERA WORK (Berlin) showing a curated selection of classic and contemporary masterpieces ranging from Irving Penn’s famous work Mouth to Steve Schapiro’s iconic portrait of Muhammad Ali.
Several galleries and publishers are presenting solo booths, including; Dellasposa (London) bringing rare and iconic photographs by the legendary photographer David Bailey; Gallery180 (NYC) exhibiting work by French-Uruguayan photographer Bettina Pittaluga; and New Dimension (London) showing Keiran Perry‘s Smoke Filled Mirror series documenting the two years the artist spent living with a travelling circus troupe.
Further highlights include: Grob Gallery (Geneva) presenting a curated selection of vintage photographs by Brassaï and Bill Brandt, marking their recent acquisition of the complete vintage photographic stock of Marlborough Gallery; James Hyman Gallery (London) bringing a curated display titled ‘Artist and Model’ featuring some of the most important photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier- Bresson, John Deakin, Gustave Le Gray, Zanele Muholi and Jo Spence; Galerie Tanit (Beirut/Munich) exhibiting works by Giulio Rimondi, Michel Zoghzoghi, Rania Matar, Tarek Haddad, and Elger Esser—exploring the sea as subject, symbol, and force; The Music Photo Gallery (NYC) dedicating their booth to classic images of musicians including never before seen photographs of Bob Dylan by Daniel Kramer; Lee Miller Archives bringing the highest number of lifetime prints by Miller ever made available to buy, highlighting images from her wartime reportage; Person Projects bringing a booth of entirely exclusive works for Photo London, presenting Grey Crawford’s new body of works from his series ‘Baltz’ and WEBBER Gallery returning to the Fair with a group of artists, including Tee A. Corinne, whose work reimagines representations of selfhood and individuals’ connections to their communities and surroundings.
2025 sees the return of the Fair’s special partnership with TurkishBank UK that brings exciting galleries from the region to London including Vision Art Platform, Kairos and Simbart Projects who will bring a solo booth of new work by Begüm Mütevellioğlu and Sule Gazioglu Gallery (all Istanbul) who exhibits for the first time with a solo presentation by Annette Louise Solakoglu.
For Photo London 2025, Polka Galerie (Paris) presents a special display of platinum prints from the series ‘Genesis’ by Sebastião Salgado. Salgado was the first Photo London Master of Photography in 2015, and his Master of Photography exhibition featured a selection of these prints.
The outwear brand K-Way® partners with Photo London to bring their travelling exhibition ‘In Y/Our Life – The Hidden Side of Everyday Things’, curated by Gianluigi Ricuperati, to the Fair. Spread across three rooms the exhibition will feature a multisensory installation by photographer Serafin Gerber and olfactory artist Francesca Casale, a photographic installation by Anastasia Pavlova exploring how household brands such as Bic®, Moleskine®,, and Rollerblade®, participate in our daily life, and Serafin Gerber’s series ‘Around the World in Double Exposure’. ‘The Other Side of the Rain’, is also displayed on the East side of the Fair’s central pavilion. Curated and shot by Laura Pannack, it reinterprets an iconic K-Way® campaign through a contemporary lens.
Belmond returns to Photo London with the second instalment of its ‘Belmond Legends’ series, which commissions evocative travel photography “As Seen By” world-renowned artists. For 2025, Belmond presents an exclusive solo exhibition by renowned American photographer Colin Dodgson. This original collection chronicles extraordinary journeys aboard two of Belmond’s iconic sleeper trains: the Andean Explorer, which winds through the majestic high Andes of Peru, and the Eastern & Oriental Express, which meanders through the lush Malaysian jungle. The Peru series is hand-printed by the artist and accompanied by a collectible art book of Colin Dodgson’s Andean Explorer series.
Photo London Director, Sophie Parker, said: “While we are a photography specific Fair, the works exhibited go far beyond images hung on walls. Photography can include sculpture, painting, performance, fabric, moving image, and even sound, and at Photo London we celebrate photography as an art object in all its forms. For our tenth anniversary edition I’m incredibly excited to see such a strong group of presentations by galleries from all over the world and I look forward to welcoming a mix of old friends and new faces to Somerset House.”
Also, look for the return of Discovery for emerging galleries and expanded Positions featuring unrepresented photographers championed by collectors and patrons; the special exhibition‘London Lives’ presents 30 leading artists celebrating the extraordinary wealth of London’s photographic talent; as well as the New Book Market, the Talks Programme curated by Thames & Hudson and the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer of the Year and Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award shortlists announced, winners to be announced at the Fair.
Photo London 2025 – 10th Edition
On 15-18 May 2025, with a Preview Day on 14 May
Somerset House
London WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
www.photolondon.org
Opening Times:
Thursday 15 May: 13:00–20:00
Friday 16 May: 13:00–20:00
Saturday 17 May: 12:00–20:00
Sunday 18 May: 12:00–18:00
