Photographers' Gallery

London-based artist Felicity Hammond works at the intersection of photography and installation, interrogating how power, politics and data shape the images we consume. Her latest project is a bold, four-part touring exhibition that investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming photography. Each iteration of the exhibition builds on the last, using images and data gathered from previous venues as training material for the next, mirroring the recursive feedback loops of machine learning. The project raises questions about authorship, truth and the collapsing boundaries between the artificial and the real. V3: Model Collapse asks: what happens when the artificial becomes the original?

The Jamaican-born, London-raised photographer Dennis Morris is best known for his portraits of Bob Marley: a teenaged Morris, then a Hackney schoolkid, first photographed the reggae star in 1973, long before images of Marley were as unavoidable as those of Princess Diana, Che Guevara and Pope John Paul II. Morris contributed a great deal to the growing iconography around Marley, with his shots landing in splashes in the NME and Melody Maker (as well as the pages of Time Out). He went on to photograph the Sex Pistols and other reggae and punk icons, and there are plenty of stunning portraits of the likes of John Lydon and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in this hugely satisfying first UK retrospective of Morris’s work. Morris’s musical portraits are thrilling, especially given the chemistry he obviously had with Marley. But it’s his 1970s documentary work capturing Black and Asian life in Hackney and Southall that steals the show. Morris clearly had a knack for showing up and making things happen and converting that talent into images which are valuable, essential moments in time. He captures the capital at a point when Black British and British Indian communities were becoming well-established in some neighbourhoods but were anything but integrated or widely accepted. One of his most remarkable photos is taken at a wedding of a Black woman and a white man: as the groom goes in to kiss his pristinely-dressed mother, the tension is remarkable.  These images are valuable, essential...