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Viewing Photo London at Somerset House

One of the world’s largest and most significant photography events, Photo London reaches a milestone ten years this year, as it returns to Somerset House for four days of exhibitions, talks, book signings and special events. Founded in 2015 by Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, Photo London aims to educate and stimulate collectors of art by bringing the bleeding edge of the medium to the capital every year.

This celebratory tenth edition – led by director and The Wick Monday Muse Sophie Parker – includes more than 130 exhibitors from around the world, shown across the main sector, as well as Discovery (for emerging galleries) and an expanded new sector Positions, curated by Maria Sukkar, a book market, new for this edition.

There are also ten special partner exhibitions, as well as a major public group exhibition London Lives, in the cavernous Embankment Galleries, bringing together thirty major photographers who have shaped the city – or been shaped by it (Hannah Starkey, Mary McCartney, and David Bailey among them.) There are talks by the likes of Don McCullin and Dennis Morris, a screening of Joel Meyerowitz’s new film, and don’t forget to book a slot at Miles Alridge’s on-site portrait studio, too. Say cheese!

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Dates
15 May 2025 — 18 May 2025
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Viewing Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets at Teaspoon Projects

Something a little bit different: a pop-up show by two friends who inspire each other, organised by Teaspoon Projects and curated by Gigi Surel and Mariana Lemos. Artists Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman share a close friendship and ongoing dialogue that informs their practices in different ways. This exhibition explores intimacy, and how that friendship, and who you’re close to, shapes who you are and what you create.

Both artists are concerned with storytelling through expressive use of their materials, though with very different outcomes. Gurung-Russell Campbell’s sculptural installations of knotted jute rope and flags, entangled with family photographs, are acts of labour and love that create a web of stories, past, present and future all strung together, complex and beautiful. Coleman, meanwhile, makes images by an equally intensive process, using materials like dye, bleach, pigment and rust, to transform fabrics into patchwork canvases, visual representations of these converging narratives.

Many great artists have formed fruitful and intense friendships throughout history and this exhibition is as much about the tension and dialogue, often private, that takes place around a practice, a reminder that artworks are never made in a vacuum.

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Dates
15 May 2025 — 24 May 2025

Viewing Rankin: Faik Off at Annroy Studios

Continuing London Photo Week, head to Annroy Studios until Sunday to see a special Rankin exhibition, Faik Off, interrogating the role of human creativity in the age of AI. Rankin has produced a series of AI-generated images and texts that each provoke ambivalent questions about artistic authorship and machine learning.

Rankin – celebrated as one of the UK’s leading photographers and one of the founders of Dazed & Confused magazine – has always been a pioneer in the visual realm. This latest exploration involved full immersion into the AI world, getting acquainted with software such as MidJourney and ChatGPT.

After nine months experimenting with these tech tools and delving deeper into the possibilities and problems with them, Rankin also produced a 420-page publication, also available to browse at the show. It’s a critical, and at times emotive look at AI.

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Dates
09 May 2025 — 27 June 2025
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