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© Estate of Evelyn Hofer Courtesy Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
© Estate of Evelyn Hofer Courtesy Galerie m, Bochum, Germany

Top photography exhibitions in London

Look at life through the lens and find the best new photography exhibitions around London

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Time Out London Art
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There's so much more to London art than just painting or sculpture. Instead, you can lose yourself in all kinds of new worlds by tracking down the best photography exhibitions in London.

From sweeping landscape scenes to powerful portraits captured by daring individuals, photography in London offers a full-exposure of thought-provoking, visually captivating art. Look away from the Instagram feed for just a minute and go explore.

RECOMMENDED: Check our complete guide to photography in London

Top photography exhibitions in London

Lee Miller: You Will Not Lunch In Charlotte Street Today
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Lee Miller: You Will Not Lunch In Charlotte Street Today

Ahead of a major Kate Winslet-helmed biopic, TJ Boulting is hosting a show of rarely seen photographs by the great Lee Miller from the photographer's own archives. She was most known for her war time photography and her work with the surrealist Man Ray, but this show explores every stage of her varied, fascinating career and life, from portraits of women to Blitz-ravaged London and experimental nudes. 

Lee Miller is at TJ Boulting, Nov 23-Jan 20 2024. Free. More details here.

When is a photograph not a photograph? When it's conceptual art, obviously, and that's what pioneering British conceptualist Keith Arnatt focused his efforts on. Though there is some sound work here (the word 'now' repeated every four minutes, a recording of someone eating crisps) most of the work is photographs of crumbling walls, old folk in their gardens, dead trees and an actual pile of poo. Arnatt was questioning the contexts and meanings of photography, that's the idea, the concept, even if it doesn't lead to particularly good photography. 

Keith Arnatt is at Sprüth Magers, Nov 22-Feb 3 2024. Free. More details here.

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This exhibition starts with a lie. ‘I don’t know if individual photographs contain ideas, worlds, history, humanity, beauty, ugliness or nothing at all. I actually do not really care. I just extract and record things around me, without pretence,’ says influential Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama (1938-). And he doesn’t mean a word of it. 

 

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