Ernest Cole: House of Bondage

On now until 22 September

This substantial exhibition currently showing revisits South-African photographer Ernest Cole’s (1940-1990) ground-breaking project House of Bondage. In 1966 Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his photographs, settling in New York. House of Bondage was published in 1967 and revealed the brutality and injustice of apartheid to the world. It became one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century. 

Exhibition realised in collaboration with Magnum Photos. Curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann and Andrea Holzherr.

Image: Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labour, awaiting processing and assignment, SouthAfrica, 1960's. © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos

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Graciela Iturbide: Shadowlines

On now until 22 September

Discover the world of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (b.1942) which she presents in black in white - or as she describes it, as "an abstraction of the mind."

Travelling with her camera every day and often living with her subjects for months, Iturbide says that her process is similar to that of a travel photographer, except that she only shoots "what surprises and provokes an emotion that I want to capture."

Image credit: Nuestra Señora de Las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Mexique, 1979. © Graciela Iturbide

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Meditations on Love

On now until 22 September

Consider how love is represented, preserved and remembered through an archive of photobooks, novels and nonfiction works in Meditations on Love curated by the Develop Collective for The Photographers’ Gallery. Develop is part of our youth programme and works to support and commission 18-24 year olds.

The Develop programme is supported by Kusuma Trust and individual contributors.

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Nina Davies: For An Imaginary Page

On now until 6 October

Showing on the corner screen in Soho Photography Quarter. 

Nina Davies works with video, performance, writing and installation to explore current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments they come from. Mixing fiction and non-fiction, she rethinks dances of today as traditional dances of the future.

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Reimagined Landscapes - Print Sales Gallery

13 September - 10 November

Reimagined Landscapes brings together the works of Cyrus Mahboubian, Qiu Yangzi and Gohar Dashti & Hamed Noori, to explore themes of cultural identity, home and displacement. 

These artists treat the landscape not merely as a backdrop but as a central character in their exploration of memory, displacement and the human condition. Their reconstructed and often surreal images reflect the search for belonging amidst cultural dualities and our increasingly fragmented relationship with the natural world. 

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Siân Davey: The Garden

On now until 29 November 2024

“Everyone has a place in our garden.” Siân Davey.

Right outside the Gallery, in Soho Photography Quarter, explore The Garden by British photographer Siân Davey. Together with her son, the artist transformed an abandoned back garden to welcome native flowers and biodiversity along with the community that she captured in deeply poetic images.

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Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily

9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025 

To round off 2024, we’ll be showing the first major UK exhibition of Italian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia (1935 - 2022). Best known for her work documenting the Sicilian Mafia during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, she used her camera to record the daily terror of organised crime, putting it on the front page. Over her 40-year career she photographed murder victims, processions, religious festivals, wealth and poverty, beauty and decay, in and around Palermo, providing an expansive and intimate view of the iconic Sicilian city. 

In collaboration with Paolo Falcone and the Letizia Battaglia Archive. 

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Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage

9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025  

Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage presents the work of a truly innovative, American fashion photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), whose female gaze transformed fashion photography. Featuring some of her personal vintage photocollages, in what will be her first solo exhibition in the UK, the exhibition is realised in collaboration with Photo Elysee in Lausanne and the MUUS collection, USA. 

Image: Versailles, from the series Unseen Versailles, 1980 ©Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

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Ten.8 in Focus: The Legacy of Black Image and Body Politics

9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025

And finishing the year in our archive display we’ll take a look back at the legacy and influence of Ten.8 - a journal which began in 1978 and provided a forum for West Midlands-based photographers to come together and share images and ideas. When the last edition was published in 1992, Ten.8 had developed into an internationally acclaimed journal.

In collaboration with International Curators Forum and the editors of Ten.8 magazine.

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