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A photograph of a cow standing on a hill with hills behind and a grey sky.

A Story Behind A Photograph by Mia Cross

Mia Cross shares a story behind her photograph Escape

Evident: New Landscape Photography. Installation image courtesy The Photographers' Gallery Archive, 1996

10:30am, Thu 02 Dec 2021

Concerning Photography: Photographic Networks in Britain (c. 1971 to the present) - Day 3

Gain deeper insight into photography in the UK in the last 50 years and its ongoing impact with leading leading curators, researchers, artists and photographers in the final day of

An image from the private view for The Concerned Photographer, the first exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in 1971. Sue Davies is pictured in the middle of a large crowd.

10:30am, Wed 01 Dec 2021

Concerning Photography: Photographic Networks in Britain (c. 1971 to the present) - Day 2

Join day two of this landmark conference as we look at photography in the UK over the last 50 years

A photograph of a crowd of people holding lights in the night.

A Story Behind A Photograph by Angana Narula

Angana Narula shares a story behind her photo project Resist

Sue Davies, founding director of The Photographers' Gallery, pictured with New European Colour photography posters, 1978. Photographer unknown

10:30am, Thu 25 Nov 2021

Concerning Photography: Photographic Networks in Britain (c. 1971 to the present)

Hear from leading curators, researchers, artists and photographers in the first in a series of events and discussions as we look at photography in the UK in the last 50

A child crouches on the pavement next to the back tyre of a green car

Audio Descriptions: Helen Levitt

Scroll down to listen to audio-descriptions of five photographs by Helen Levitt. The sound file is located below each photograph.

Landscape formatted image featuring the back of a figure in a green jungle-like setting

1:00pm, Wed 27 Oct 2021

Artist Talk: Hoda Afshar

The Photographers' Gallery Director Brett Rogers in conversation with artist Hoda Afshar

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Destiny USA (2015) Archival pigment print, 45 x 56.25 inches

6:30pm, Wed 13 Oct 2021

Artist Talk: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa with Tina Campt

Hear Tina Campt and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa discuss photography, visuality and Blackness

Red tree against faded blue sky

6:30pm, Tue 12 Oct 2021

Artist Talk: Namsa Leuba

In this new talk with Namsa Leuba, hear the artist in conversation with researcher and curator Nomusa Makhubu

Installation shot Dana Lixenberg © Kate Elliott

6:30pm, Thu 16 Sep 2021

DBPFP Anniversary Talk with Oliver Chanarin, Mishka Henner and Dana Lixenberg

Hear from Oliver Chanarin, Mishka Henner and Dana Lixenberg in this special talk to mark the 25th anniversary of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

Image by Karen Knorr

Karen Knorr – The Virtues and The Delights

The Virtues and the Delights is a bilingual work in French and English produced between 1992-1994

Image by Jason Orton

Jason Orton – The New English Landscape

Jason Orton uses photography to develop an understanding of landscapes.

Image by Dana Ariel

Dana Ariel – De-listed

Delisted depicts architectural elements in London that have been delisted from the English Heritage.

Image by Peter Ainsworth

Peter Ainsworth – Zone of Transit

In Zone of Transit, 2010 - 2013 Peter Ainsworth uses spaces such as flyovers as his studio.

EROS (2013) from the series LONDON DUST by Rut Blees Luxemberg

Rut Blees Luxemburg – London Dust

Rut Blees Luxemberg's work explores the phenomenon of the urban

Image by Martin Newth

Martin Newth – Sentinel

Sentinel is an ongoing project exploring the nature, status and relationship of pillboxes to the British landscape.

Image by Guy Moreton

Guy Moreton – Jacquetta Hawkes

Guy Moreton explores the complex relationship between landscape and thought through the writing of Jacquetta Hawkes.

Image by Helen Sear

Helen Sear – Beyond the View

Photographed in and around the agricultural lands south of Milan, Beyond the View explores the sublime.

Whale Chine, 1994, Jem Southam

Jem Southam – Rockfalls, River Mouths, Ponds

Photographs from three of Jem Southam's large format colour photographs, depicting the interplay of natural, cultural and mythical elements.

Image by Fergus Heron

Fergus Heron – Cawdor, Common, A View of London

The work of Fergus Heron involves photography as a way of picturing ordinarily encountered places.

Our Curated Themes

A photograph of a crowd of people holding lights in the night.

A Story Behind a Photograph

A digital unicorn in human clothes walks along a 2D digital forest landscape

Screen Walks

A young photographer talks to a room of people

Artist Talks: Watch and Listen

Large 50th anniversary ident

50 Exhibitions for 50 Years

Dafna Talmor, Untitled (NE-040404-1), From the series Constructed Landscapes, 2015

Photography and Landscape

Returnings, David Rickard & SJ Fowler 2016

Photography and Poetry