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PHOTO LONDON 2021, Somerset House
- Despite the restrictions arising from the pandemic Photo London is building an exciting international roster of exhibitors from 14 countries, including a strong Discovery section for emerging galleries.
- A digital fair running alongside the event at Somerset House.
- The Fair will be accompanied by an outstanding Public Programme that will include special exhibitions by Master of Photo Photography Shirin Neshat in partnership with Goodman Gallery, and Robert Capa in partnership with Messums, and talks with Lee Friedlander, Thomas Walther, Adam Lowe, Nancy Burson, Lorenzo Vitturi, and more.
- Photo London will continue its Emerging Photographer award. The work of Marguerite Bornhauser, who won the award at Photo London Digital and is represented by Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, will be displayed at the Nikon space.
- In the months before the Fair, Photo London will continue the innovative Academy Programme that has provided continuous support for Photo London’s exhibitors since the postponement of the 2020 Fair in March last year.
- Limited Early bird tickets on sale now on photolondon.org/tickets.
- The full list of exhibitors for physical and digital fair far will be announced in late July.
London, Thursday, 10 June 2021 – Photo London returns to Somerset House for its sixth edition from 8–12 September 2021. Building on last year’s success, the second edition of Photo London Digital will run concurrently with the physical Fair thus providing an opportunity to participate for exhibitors unable to attend in person. In addition, in recognition of the fact that, in some cases, work has to be seen to be fully appreciated, digital exhibitors will be given the option to showcase work in a special booth at Somerset House.
The exhibitors’ roster keeps growing day by day and the full list will be confirmed in late July. Highlights so far include:
- Master photographer James Barnor and prolific artist Romuald Hazoumè, shown alongside emerging artists Benji Reid and Alexis Peskine by October Gallery (London), who both previously exhibited in Somerset House’s Get Up, Stand Up Now exhibition.
- Two unique yet related bodies of work, Bunker: Along the Atlantic Wall by Italian Photographer Guido Guidi and Bunkers, an on-going series by Los Angeles based Mark Ruwedel, exhibited by Large Glass (London).
- REFLEX AMSTERDAM (Amsterdam), presenting Todd Hido’s upcoming and unreleased series The End Sends Advance Warning.
- Robert Morat (Berlin) presents a solo booth of new CUT OUTS by Jessica Backhaus. The images created using simple tools – sun, scissors and paperhighlight photography’s basic elements: light and shadow, shape and colour. Other solo presentations include Kim Boske at FLATLAND (Amsterdam), Rankin at 29 Arts in Progress (Milan), Dafna Talmor at Sid Motion (London), Heather Agyepong at James Hyman Gallery (London) and Alia Ali at Galerie Peter Sillem (Frankfurt).
- Camera Work (Berlin) presents newly released works by Herb Ritts and Hans Feurer, as well as by new work from Christian Tagliavini’s latest series Circesque.
- For the first time, the Lee Miller Archives presents the private work of LIFE magazine photographer and editor David E. Scherman, alongside the work of the celebrated photographer Lee Miller.
- Christophe Guye Galerie (Zürich) presents a group of artists who all work around the theme of nature in contemporary photography: Bae Bien-U, Simen Johan, Syoin Kajii, Rinko Kawauchi, Jung Lee, Brigitte Lustenberger, Risaku Suzuki and Dominique Teufen.
- Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporanea (Lisbon) presents Marguerite Bornhauser, Winner of Emerging Photographer award 2020, alongside Daniel Blaufuks, Manuel Vilariño, Noé Sendas and others.
- Purdy Hicks (London), features works by Susan Derges, Diana Matar, Sandra Kantanen and Santere Tuori.
- Boogie Wall (London) will highlight Women to Watch featuring work by Delphine Diallo, Namsa Leuba and Annina Roescheisen.
- Galerie Thierry Bigaignon (Paris) features three artists who, in a quest to propose a new visual vocabulary, challenge the medium and explore the full extent of its possibilities – Catherine Balet, Ralph Gibson and Rémi Noël.
- Robert Hershkowitz Ltd (London), Roland Belgrave (Brighton), Augusta Edwards Fine Arts (London) and Stewart & Skeels (London) will continue Photo London’s commitment to showcasing outstanding historic photography.
- MMX Gallery (London), who focus their booth on different approaches to portrait photography, and Webber Gallery (London) both graduate from our Discovery Section to the main fair.
Photo London’s acclaimed Discovery section – dedicated to nurturing younger galleries and spotlighting fresh talent – is set to once again inspire and surprise visitors and collectors.
In the Publishers section, Photo London is delighted to welcome new exhibitor Gost Books (London), Kehrer Verlag (Heidelberg), Hoxton Mini Press (London), Éditions Xavier Barral / Atelier EXB (Paris), Dewi Lewis Publishing (U.K.), Benrido Atelier (Kyoto) and Thames & Hudson (London).
Special Exhibitors include The View Magazine (London) presenting Someone’s Daughter, an inspirational photographic exhibition by some of the world’s leading photographers, portraits of 15 leading women and 15 women activists and former prisoners. The project is curated by Jennie Ricketts, the respected former picture editor of The Observer and led by Rachael Heaton-Armstrong, the magazine’s Creative Director and documentary maker of Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons
The Stanley Foundation will support an exhibition of work selected from final year photography students at London’s leading art colleges.
Alongside the fair, Photo London is delighted present a special events programme. For the Master of Photography exhibition, Shirin Neshat presents for the first time in full in the UK, Land of Dreams featuring all 111 photographs of New Mexico residents and her two-channel film installation. This body of works, marks a significant visual and conceptual shift for the artist, who has turned her lens to the landscape and people of the American West. Land of Dreams premiered in the US at Gladstone Gallery, New York, earlier this year, and was presented in part at Goodman Gallery, London, in 2020. The exhibition will be on view in the Embankment Galleries of Somerset House.
Robert Capa, Close Enough. This touring exhibition dedicated to legendary Hungarian-American war photographer Robert Capa has been organised in collaboration with MESSUMS LONDON who recently launched their new photography department. The exhibition – curated by Julie Bonzon (Dr), Director of Photography, Messums, and Ben Burdett, Director, Atlas Gallery – will feature a succession of iconic stories made throughout Capa’s career, from the altogether varying contexts in which he found himself. The title of the show references the scenes witnessed by Capa, the challenges he encountered in photographing tragedy and death while remaining a detached observer, as well as the legacy of this photographic approach today. On view, there will be over 50 vintage photographs selected from the Kogan Collection – one of the UK’s largest private conflict photography collections, which to date has never been shown – including the second earliest print in existence of The Falling Soldier, now widely recognised as one of the most important war photographs of all time. The central piece in this exhibition is Capa’s original Leica camera with which he took his earliest photographs. Exhibited for the first time, the camera offers a rare insight into Capa’s image-making process and forthcoming extraordinary photographic journey.
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