2025 at The Photographers' Gallery

2025 promises to be another year of great photography! Support the Gallery and become a member for year-round free exhibition entry, as well as special invites, priority bookings and discounts in our café and bookshop.  

Black and White image of Bob Marley on a tour bus.

2025 at The Photographers' Gallery

2025 promises to be another year of great photography! Support the Gallery and become a member for year-round free exhibition entry, as well as special invites, priority bookings and discounts in our café and bookshop.  

Black and white photograph of a person in handcuffs surrounded by people and a police officer

Current exhibitions

Until 23 February 2025 

To round off the winter season, there is still time to enjoy Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily (**** The Guardian **** Time Out), Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage and Ten.8 in Focus: The legacy of Black Image and Body Politics, and Siân Davey's The Garden is free in Soho Photography Quarter until 31 March 2025.

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A snowy landscape with the remnants of a burned down house in the centre.

Ragnar Axelsson: At the Edge of the World

Print Sales Gallery, free entry
22 November 2024 - 26 January 2025

For over four decades, Axelsson has journeyed to the northernmost reaches of the world, capturing the stark beauty and resilient lives of those living in the Arctic. 

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Spring 2025

A colour image of a grey haired parson with stood in a shallow body of water looking away towards a leafless tree.

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025

7 March – 15 June 2025 

Shortlisted artists: Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak, Lindokuhle Sobekwa 

Themes of migration, community and belonging, intergenerational traditions and rituals, family memories and histories are brought together in this powerful shortlist.

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A colour image of a fairground ghost train amusement ride that looks run down.

Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever 

7 March – 15 June 2025 

A retrospective of work by Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK), widely regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the 20th century. Mitchell is best known for documenting Leeds, through the 1970s and 80s. 

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An AI generated black and white  image of a tree with silhouettes of people stood in front of it.

Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine

7 March – 15 June 2025 

This brand-new commission by Planetary Portals interrogates the continued colonial legacies and geo-traumas of mining gold and diamonds in South Africa and the renewed scramble for African minerals and data that fuel global digital economies. 

Funded by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 

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A digital poster that parodies a singles poster promoting local cow parsley in your area.

Ecological Strangers by Min Kim

Soho Photography Quarter, corner screen, free
6 January - 5 March 2025

Ecological Strangers disrupts our relationship with productivity and invites us to look around and explore two seemingly unrelated subjects - sex workers and the natural world. Both are strangers we tend to ignore - yet they are always available nearby to interact with. 

Summer 2025

Black and White image of Bob Marley on a tour bus

Dennis Morris: Music + Life

27 June –  21 September 2025 

Dennis Morris (b. 1960) is a groundbreaking photographer, designer and art director celebrated for his photography of musicians, including iconic early snapshots of Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Oasis, Radiohead and Patti Smith. Alongside his renowned music photography, this major retrospective will feature rare and never seen images from his archives and his early documentary work, which explores race and cultural identity, drawing on his experiences as a Black teenager growing up in 1970s Britain.  

Dennis Morris: Music + Life is a collaboration between Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, and The Photographers’ Gallery. A new book Dennis Morris: Music + Life will be published by Thames & Hudson in February 2025.

An abstract AI generated image of a collage of different surfaces of varying textures and colours.

Felicity Hammond: Variations

27 June – 21 September 2025 

Felicity Hammond explores the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning in this new four-part project.  

Commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship. Supported by The Ampersand Foundation, Arts Council England and Spectrum.

Autumn/Winter 2025

Black and white image of a young person sat inside a domestic room turned toward the camera.

Zofia Rydet

October 2025 – February 2026 
 
The landmark Polish photographic project Sociological Record by Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) is a sweepingly comprehensive documentary portrait of Polish domestic life which spans decades, eras, regions and cultures.

Part of the UK/Poland Cultural Season 2025, in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland.

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Image credits

In order of appearance:

  1. Letizia Battaglia, 'Palermo, 1980. The capture of Mafia godfather Leoluca Bagarella’ © Letizia Battaglia Archive
  2. Ragnar Axelsson, An Old Woman’s House Burned Down, Sermiliqaq, Greenland, 1997. Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
  3. “Una Piedra en el Camino” from the series Journey to the Center, 2021. © Cristina De Middel / Magnum Photos
  4. Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, Spring 1986 © Peter Mitchell
  5. Funded by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Image credit: © Planetary Portals
  6. Ecological Strangers by Min Kim
  7. Dennis Morris, Babylon by van, London, 1973 © Dennis Morris
  8. © Felicity Hammond, V3 - Model collapse
  9. Zofia Rydet Sociological Record 1978-1990 © The Zofia Rydet Foundation