10 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
A major retrospective of work by Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov (b. 1938, Kharkiv, Ukraine). Spanning over 50 years, his experimental work explores social and political subjects and is a powerful photographic narrative on Ukraine’s contemporary history.
10 October 2025 – 22 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 and the Zofia Rydet Foundation.
Learn more and book tickets10 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
2025 marks 100 years since the invention of the photobooth in New York. A game-changer for the world of photography, photobooths went on to become an everyday sight in cities around the world. We'll be celebrating the centenary with a special archival display and a booth at the Gallery for everyone to create their own selfie souvenir.
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Soho Photography Quarter
8 May 2025 – 31 May 2026
Gold is everywhere in modern life - a powerful symbol of value, beauty, greed and politics. In The Canary and The Hammer, Lisa Barnard explores the troubled history of gold, our reverence for it and its role in our endless pursuit of progress and wealth.
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Print Sales Gallery
27 November 2025 - 25 January 2026
Drawing on the quiet stillness of shin shin, the Japanese onomatopoeia that describes the quietness or silence of falling snow, this exhibition presents Michael Kenna’s refined, long-exposure analogue landscapes. In his black and white landscapes, snow becomes a veil that softens the world.
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The winter season rounded off with 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.
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.
Learn moreSoho Photography Quarter, corner screen, free
7 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.
Learn morePrint Sales Gallery, free entry
7 February - 13 April 2025
Following 2023’s acclaimed in-depth retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery, Daido Moriyama: Encounters focuses on a smaller selection of works that highlights the quieter, reflective moments within Moriyama’s prolific practice. This selling exhibition celebrates Moriyama's representation at The Print Sales Gallery.
Learn more7 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.
Learn more7 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.
Learn more7 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
Learn morePrint Sales Gallery, free entry
25 April – 29 June 2025
In this playful new series, Alma Haser transforms the quirkiness of idioms in the German language into sculptural images that blend humour, history and imagination.
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4 July - 7 September 2025
New to the Print Sales roster, Saïdou Dicko is an artist from Burkina Faso whose work remains deeply rooted in his early life as a shepherd in the Sahel. He paints over his prints, building out a body of truly unique works.
27 June – 28 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, published by Thames & Hudson, is now available.
Learn more27 June – 28 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.
Learn morePrint Sales Gallery
12 September - 16 November 2025
Paul Cupido’s second solo exhibition in the Print Sales Gallery takes inspiration from the Japanese idiom Kachō Fūgetsu, meaning “flower, bird, wind, moon.” Rooted in Japanese aesthetics, the phrase expresses the idea that by observing the transient beauty of the natural world, we come to better understand ourselves.
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