Top photography exhibitions in London

A brilliant retrospective for Jamaican-born, London-raised photographer Dennis Morris, who’s best known for his portraits of Bob Marley. Morris started taking pictures professionally before he was even a teenager, so he’s got loads of fantastic stories to share (by way of his camera) by this point.

Why go: 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.

Since the 1990s, the London-born photographer Eileen Perrier has used her camera to capture individuals in their local communities – from Peckham to Paris and beyond – and this show highlights some of her finest work. Expect to see striking portraits interrogating cultural belonging, beauty standards and the family home, from the nineties until the present day. 

Why go: Perrier’s photographs do a great job at capturing community and questioning narratives, and that’s not always a given in portraiture.

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?