Spring 2022 at TPG

photograph of a pink sidewalk by Anastasia Samoylova at the photographers gallery

Spring 2022 at TPG

Spring at TPG offers a rich series of exhibitions, talks and other events, as always designed to stimulate your engagement with and understanding of photography - in all its forms.
 
In our main galleries, our annual Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize aims to provide a barometer of photographic talent and excellence, each year presenting a shortlist of artists and projects that exemplify exceptional viewpoints and bold practice from across the world. 
 
For The Record is a joyous celebration of the album cover from the iconic to the rare.
 
Apian, presented on our Eranda studio looks at the existent and potential relationship between humans and bees and in our Print Sales Galllery, find a rare presentation of modernist Mexican photographer, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. 
 
General Admission ticket gives you entrance to all exhibitions on the day of your visit.  

deana lawson's photograph of An Ode to Yemana, at the photographers gallery

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022

This year’s Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist show is, as ever, a study in dramatically contrasting approaches to the medium. — The Guardian

The #DBPFP22 exhibition presents the nominated projects from this year’s shortlisted artists, Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ractliffe, Deana Lawson and Gilles Peress.

Each of the projects display a unique perspective on pictorial representation, with the artists taking a distinctive approach to the medium of photography and focusing on subject matter linked to a specific region or community. 

 

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Meet the nominees

Jo Ractliffe

"Stepping into one of Ractliffe’s photographs is not unlike entering the uncanny universe of Pedro Páramo: harsh landscapes populated by disquieting shadows, places where time seems to have abandoned a linear trajectory, where the dead and the living inadvertently cross paths."

– Daniela Montelongo, from the essay 'On the Road to Paramus: A Tale of Two Donkeys', DBPFP22 Catalogue

Anastasia Samoylova

"Begun in 2016, and with added momentum after hurricane Irma in 2017, Samoylova’s ongoing series of photographs reflects the vanity and precarity of everyday life in a cosmopolitan city founded on fever dreams and formed by images of touristic escape and luxury development."

– Heather Diack, from the essay 'Life on Planet Florida', DBPFP22 Catalogue

Gilles Peress

"What does it mean, in the end, to photograph cycles of Irish life, to organise them into fictional days, to print them in a book and to stand before them, on the wall, in a gallery off Oxford Street? The gesture gains meaning as a thrust in the battle for history, and to the extent it unsettles the structure of our empathy."

– Chris Klatell, from the essay 'On Whatever You Say, Say Nothing', DBPFP22 Catalogue

Deana Lawson

"For over eighteen years, the artist Deana Lawson has been engaged in the sensuous and complex depiction of black life through the principal form of the photographic portrait."

– Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa from the essay 'Into Light', DBPFP22 catalogue

Vinyl album cover of Abbey Road, by The Beatles, at The Photographers Gallery

For the Record: Photography & the Art of the Album Cover ​​​​​​​

Celebrating the unique ‘object d’art’, this exhibition reflects upon photography's role in shaping and making artists - both in front of and behind the camera.

 

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photo of honey super, inzerki in morocco bees , apian , at the photographers' gallery

Apian

Apian presents an ongoing project by Aladin Borioli exploring the interspecies relationship between humans and bees.

Using a wide range of materials and technologies his work aims to find alternative ways of living and interacting with bees on a more egalitarian basis.

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Manual Alvarez Bravo's black and white photograph, El umbral, 1993, at the photographers' gallery

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Everyday Theatre

On until 22nd May

A selection of rare lifetime prints from one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography.

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AR image of insect and us, at the photographers' gallery

Insect & Us

An animated Augmented Reality documentary about the importance of insects — ‘The little cogs that make the world go round.’

Kris Hofmann’s Augmented Reality documentary Insects & Us invites us to explore an animated environment to engage with the interwoven stories of its inhabitants.

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photo of the album cover designed by Nevill Brody

Courses and Talks

Find out more about our exciting programme of events coming up at TPG.

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