Exhibitions

PhotoMonth returns in October 2025 with a dynamic programme of photography exhibitions, events, screenings, and walking tours across all London areas with an “E” postcode — from EC1 to SE15, from Hackney to Deptford.

Here you’ll find the full listings: pop-up shows, curated group exhibitions, institutional collaborations, and independent artist-run spaces. From emerging voices to established photographers, PhotoMonth celebrates the full spectrum of lens-based practice and places East London firmly on the cultural map.

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David Spero, Nicholas Hopkins, Nick Berkeley, Anna Best & Tom Hunter, ‘The way we live’ Fri 26th Sept - Sun 12th Oct .
Gallery 46, 46 Ashfield Street, London, E1 2AJ. Tues - Sat 1 - 6 pm Opening/ Private View: Thurs 25th Sept 6 - 9 pm

‘The Way We Live’ explores what it means to live fully in today’s world. As a reflection on how personal and societal forces shape our choices, identities, and daily experiences— it ultimately offers a vision of life shaped by the possibility of self- determination. ✦ Gallery 46

Carla Borel, ‘Le sac en crocodile’ Fri 26th Sept - Friday 10th Oct.
Window 135, 135 New Cross Rd, SE14 5DJ 24/7

‘This work in progress, with the working title of ‘le sac en crocodile’ will include photobooth portraits of me wearing clothes and accessories inherited from my French grandmother’ ✦ Window 135

Katie Bret-Day, ‘Otherlands’ Sun 28th Sept - Tues 11th Nov.
Hackney Picturehouse 270 Mare St, London, E8 1HE Mon - Sun 10am - 10pm

Otherlands explores photography as a transformative landscape. The work of 5 photographers working and living in East London brings together representative and abstract image practices that consider the performativity of place in photography. These works produce a collective investigation into photography as a site for speculation, history, myth and belief can create movements between place, displacement, belonging and unknown rationalising otherness into a connected space between. ✦ Hackney Picturehouse

PhotoMonth Opening Launch Exhibition, ‘Wonderland - The Joy of Analogue - Portraits from 1955-1995’. Thurs 2nd - Sun 16th Oct .
Yorkton Workshops 1-3 Yorkton St, London, E2 8NH Mon - Fri 10:30am - 5:30pm, Sat - Sun 10.30am - 6.30pm

Wonderland is an exhibition that brings together some of the finest portrait work made in camera and in the darkroom over a 40-year period. The aim is to showcase the artistry, and highly tuned skill sets of photographers who were working with film and wet chemistry in the darkroom. Highlighting the technical and creative aspects of the medium in the production of the photographic print before the age of digitisation. ✦ Yorkton Studios

Marina Tsaregoroseva, ‘What It Takes’ Thurs 2nd - Sat 25th Oct
Brady Arts & Community Centre 192-196 Hanbury St, London, E1 5HU Mon - Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat 9am - 4pm

What does it take to adapt — to move between languages, cultures, or ways of being? These questions resist fixed answers, as transformation is never singular. This series explores the emotional complexity of transformation. I translate these shifts into visual form by intuitively bending paper, creating three-dimensional works in which the boundaries between visibility and concealment, shared identity and private self, are blurred. ✦ Brady Arts & Community Centre

Urbanlens, ‘Dark Corners of the Urban Landscape’ Thurs 2nd Oct - Sun 5th Oct.
The Chapel, St Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL Thurs - Sat 12pm - 5pm, Sun 12 pm - 4pm Opening Event: Wednesday 1st October 6:30 - 8:30pm

Urbanlens is a group of three women artists based in Hackney, Sacha Lehrfreund, Heather McDonough and Mara Bodis Wollner. They create collaborative work and community photographic events around themes of walking, the urban environment and nature. Join Urban Lens at the Chapel at the opening of their exhibition and to celebrate the start of PhotoMonth Photography Festival Tickets: Free (registration is essential) Instagram: @urbanlens3 ✦ Urbanlens

Barry Lewis,’Intersections, A portrait of Londoners through the people’ Thurs 2nd - Fri 31st Oct
The Source Theatre Square, Stratford, E15 1BX Mon - Sat 9:30am - 9:30pm

‘Intersections’ is about documenting London through portraits and conversations of the people. I spent 50 years as a photojournalist, documenting the world for magazines and wanted to change my working practice, to slow down and look at my own city with fresh eyes.

The last couple of years I have been traveling around the city with a large camera and tripod, approaching strangers and asking about their lives. We end up with a sort of negotiated settlement; the subject can pause, reflect on my request, and together we create an image and I ask them about their lives. ✦ Barry Lewis

Grete Hjorth-Johansen, ‘LOVEHEARTS’. Thurs 2nd Oct - Mon 3rd Nov
Tin Café 1 Middleton Rd, London, E8 4BL Mon - Fri 7am - 6pm, Sat 9am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 4pm

An intimate look at the bold declarations of love carved on the trees in Epping Forest. Stretched and distorted by the growing trees over many decades, they no longer offer the same optimistic promise of eternal love they were intended to. Names and initials have become a mangled mess of lumpy bark, and as memories of romances fade away so do the hearts. ✦ Tin Café

Curated by Vali Mahlouji Ragged School Museum
46-50 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR 2 October - 5 October 2025 Opening 2 October at 7pm.

Thomas Barnardo operated his largest free school, the Copperfield Road Free School, in those buildings from 1877 to 1908. This Ragged School provided a free basic education and meals to poor children in the East End, a service that continued until enough government schools were built in the area. Today, the buildings are a museum that showcases the history of the East End and Barnardo's work through reconstructed Victorian classrooms and exhibitions.
One section will revolve around the theme: Radical Pedagogy & The Politics of Free Education. This links to the legacy of British welfare institutions, with the complex web of theories and praxes that demanded and expanded the citizens’ rights to health, education and wellbeing while containing care within institutional dynamics which were commissioned to provide education and care as a free and vital social service, within a formal economy.
The other section will be themed: The Intimate Burden. While the Ragged School represents society's attempt to institutionalise care for destitute children, the primary site of care remains the home. This section contrasts the public mission of the school with the private, often fraught world of intimate care. Here, the caregivers are not volunteers or teachers, but family members: parents, children, partners. The works in this section explore care not as a policy, but as a deeply personal act of love, labour, exhaustion, frustration, conflict, ambivalence, violence, loss, and resilience. They make visible the psychological weight, bodily intimacy, and unresolved affective agendas and residues of these otherwise idealised relationships.

There are seven artists with diverse lenses in the show, each reflecting on an expanded definition of childhood, destitution, rights, and care:

Kasia Wozniak, Osman Youssefzada, Abbas Zahediace, Peter Kennard, Kaveh Golestan, Carolina Mazzolari, Markéta Luskačová. ✦ Ragged School Museum

Karolina Dudek, ‘Fluids’. Thurs 2nd Oct - Mon 3rd Nov
Finch Gallery London Fields, 12 Sidworth St, London, E8 3SN Mon - Thurs 9:30am - 4pm, Fri 9:30am - 11pm, Sat 11am - 11pm

My project explores the unity among women, using blood and menstruation as powerful symbols of connection and shared experience. It investigates the relationship between the body, its fluids, and the connections they create—both within the private space of the home and in wider societal contexts. Through visual stories, I seek to challenge common perceptions of the body and its functions, creating room for reflection and discussion about what links us on a basic, human level. ✦ Finch Gallery

Mihai Barabancea 'Metamorph', October 2nd - 19th Tuesday - Saturday 2pm-7pm
Metamorphika Studio

Metamorph marks a point of no return — the threshold where truth liquefies into transformation and perception mutates into a contested arena. Mihai Barabancea’s exhibition creates a vivid architecture of images in which folklore, dystopia, and ritual theater fuse, unsettling the line between documentary and staged fantasy. His photographs function as ritual objects, speculative maps, and mirrors exposing not just what we see but how we are programmed to see. ✦ Metamorphika Studio

Tom Oldham, Ron Timehin & James Hole, ‘@28Sunbury’ Thurs 2nd Oct.
74 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8DL 6 - 9pm (free/ RSVP via Eventbrite recommended)

LONDON, UK — Three acclaimed portrait photographers, Tom Oldham, Ron Timehin, and James Hole, are set to unveil a new body of work at Printspace this October as part of East London’s PhotoMonth Festival. The exhibition, hosted in the renowned gallery and industry go-to printers Printspace on Kingsland Road, opens with a launch event on Thursday, October 2nd, coinciding with East London’s celebrated First Thursdays. The exhibition will showcase striking portraits of some of East London’s most iconic and culture-shaping figures, including legendary artists Gilbert & George, LGBTQ+ activist Lady Phyll, and musician Hak Baker. Each portrait was captured in the intimate setting of 28 Sunbury, the studio the three photographers share in Shoreditch. Instagrams: @28Sunbury, @Printspace, @Tommyophoto, @RonTimehin, @HolePhoto ✦ Printspace

Etienne Clément, Vision on Emulsion. Thurs 2nd Oct - Sun 9th Nov .
Findlay Property, 73 Broadway Market, London, E8 4PH Mon - Fri 9:30am - 5:30pm, Sat 9:30am - 5pm

A selection of pioneering black and white architectural photographs from various projects.
✦ Findlay Property

Wolfgang Tillmans, ‘Build from Here’. Fri 3rd Oct - Sat 20th Dec
Maureen Paley 60 Three Colts Lane, London, E2 6GQ Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm Private View: Friday 3rd October, 6 - 8 pm

Studio M Rochelle School, Friars Mount House, 7 Playground Gardens, London, E2 7FA Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm Private View: Friday 3rd October, 4 - 7 pm Maureen Paley 4 Herald Street, London, E2 6JT Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm Private View: Friday 3rd October, 6 - 8 pm Build From Here seeks to demonstrate the process of making and observation as an act of transformation. A work such as Easter Passion (2007)shows the artist’s former studio. The piece depicts examples of Tillmans’s Silver works hung on the wall; these chromatic surfaces invite the viewer to meditate on their form, colour, and texture, whilst also demonstrating the resources, both surplus and used, that underpin creation. Also shown are a selection of works created at a metalworking factory in Remscheid, Germany – Tillmans’s hometown. Remscheid has a long history of toolmaking, and this body of work documents the people and mechanisms involved in this essential and particular industry which shapes the city. ✦ Maureen Paley

Chandri Raithatha x Yvann Zahui - Part 1, ‘Head of the Family’ Fri 3rd - Thurs 9th Oct .
AMP Gallery 1 Acorn Parade, London, SE15 2TZ 10am - 6pm Private View: Thurs 2nd October 6 - 9pm

Heads of a Family is a collaborative project that reimagines the family archive through their Ivorian and Indian diasporic lenses. Drawing from inherited photographs, the work explores memory, migration, identity, and lineage while questioning who is remembered and how stories are preserved.

Through collage, layering, manipulation, and restaging, the artists reclaim narratives long shaped by colonial legacies and displacement. The notion of the “head of the family” is redefined, shifting focus from patriarchal authority to maternal, symbolic, and often invisible leadership. The result is a reimagined family album of resistance, continuity, and connection. ✦ AMP Gallery

Rafael Hortala-Vallve, ‘Photos Delivered Here’ Fri 3rd - Fri 31st Oct .
AUTOFOTO STUDIO Unit 3, 39 Gransden Ave, London, E8 3QA Fri & Sat 3 - 8pm

The rise of online shopping has created a vast and vital community of delivery professionals. However, our attention is often focused on the packages we receive, not on the people who bring them to us. "Photos Delivered Here" showcases a series of portraits of the delivery drivers, couriers, and postmen and women who have come to our studio, and photographed at the moment of delivery in our black and white analogue photobooth. Collectively, these portraits offer a unique and intimate snapshot of the people who connect our city, making thousands of deliveries across London every day. Contact: Rafael Hortala Vallve & Taha Izzi rafael@autofoto.org & taha@autofoto.org Instagram: @autofoto.london ✦ AUTOFOTO STUDIO

Jonty Sale & Mark Aitken, ‘IN DISCRETE DIALOGUE’ Sat 4th - Sat 25th Oct .
Ken Artspace 16 Windmill Row, London, SE11 5DW Thurs & Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 11am - 4pm

https://www.markaitken.org/ https://jontysale.com/ ✦ Ken Artspace

Luci Carnall, ‘To London with Love’ Sat 4th - Fri 31st Oct .
Cafe Hebe 258 Kingsland Rd, London, E8 4DG Tues 8am - 5pm, Wed & Thurs 8am - 11pm, Fri 8am - 12am, Sat 9am - 12 am, Sun 9am - 4:30pm

Longing for belonging has led me to my camera, a quiet force of connection. Pulling me towards emotive places & people. London is an area I couldn't reach for a number of years. To be here now challenges my perception of a disconnected longing versus the reality of my ever-present belonging; here, there & everywhere. This is part of a developing body of work exploring abandonment, belonging & community via a process of understanding & an acceptance of early life trauma through a photographic, autoethnographic & occupational science lens. ✦ Cafe Hebe

Daido Moriyama, ‘Brookfield Properties x The Photographers' Gallery: Daido Moriyama’ Sat 4th Oct - 8th Jan 2026.
Brookfield Properties x The Photographers' Gallery Aldgate Tower, 2 Leman St, London, E1 8FA Mon - Sun 9am - 6pm

Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery is pleased to present, Daido Moriyama, our third exhibition at Brookfield Properties' Aldgate Tower. Moriyama is best known for recording the freneticism and anonymity of life in the city, Encounters reveals his lesser-explored ability to show beauty and stillness in the everyday. Softly lit city streets, rendered in grainy textures, evoke a surreal and poetic visual language that embraces imperfection. Fleeting moments of calm and intimacy are paired with whimsical glimpses of animals and delicate vignettes of nature - blossoms, snowflakes and quiet, weathered corners of urban sprawl - revealing an unexpected tenderness amongst his raw and gritty aesthetic. ✦ Brookfield Properties x The Photographers' Gallery

Gary Hunter, ‘Manifest’ (from SE.E NE.W Histories programme) Sat 4th - Sun 12th Oct.
SS Robin on the River Lea Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, E14 0JW Sat & Sun 11am - 5pm

This collection of co-created glass plate/salt print photographic process is the core of Manifest exploring a semi-fictionalised inventory of the Victorian steamship SS Robin, built on the Lower Lea in 1890, then fitted out with winches and windlasses made on Tyneside.

Plant-based imaging workshops: creating ‘botanicograms’ with Megan Ringrose: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October, 11am - 4pm Limited spaces book now: HERE

Guided Walk: by author Travis Elborough, Sunday 5th October, 2.30 – 4.30pm. Meeting at Limehouse station Bekesbourne Street E14 7JQ, to reveal the lost histories of London’s first Chinatown and the haunts of such luminaries as Charles Dickens and painter Francis Bacon. Limited spaces bookable now: HERE

Guided Walk: by social historian Ken Worpole, Sunday 12th October, 1.30 – 3.30pm. Meeting at Making Space, 48 Aberfeldy Street E14 0NU, ending at pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Limited spaces bookable now here: HERE ✦ SS Robin on the River Lea

Sonya Hurtado, ‘E5 5IT’. Sun 5th Oct & Sun 15th Oct.
Dunlace Road between Chatsworth Road and Glyn Road, London, E5 5IT 12- 3pm

This project began one early autumn morning, around 7am, when I came across a pink chair in the middle of Hackney Marshes. Since then, I’ve encountered more chairs, scattered across Hackney—on pavements, in alleys, at the edge of fields. Hackney has this beautiful culture of leaving unwanted items on the street—trusting they’ll find new purpose. These chairs once served someone. Now, they sit between the past and future. So I invite you to 5IT—if only with your eyes—and imagine who once did, and who might again. ✦ Dunlace Road

David Kendall, ‘Unfinished State’. Tues 7th - Fri 31st Oct.
Spitalfields Studios Upper Gallery 7-15 Greatorex St, London, E1 5NF Mon - Fri 9am - 6pm

Evocative photographs of British landscapes are utilised as visible symbols to traditionally connect, unify and promote British heritage and distinct culture. Through the expressive lens of SMART phone and thermal imaging technology, David Kendall's project, Unfinished State investigates and questions the perception of visual spaces of food production and residential development on the edge of towns and cities. Kendall is interested in how historic photographs have been used to typically represent space and the active role of the photographer/artist in forming cultural perceptions of spaces. Moreover, historical photographs and paintings thoughtfully provide pivotal points of cultural reference, mixing personal and shared history and familiar narratives. However, the English countryside is undoubtedly a considerable space of perpetual renewal and offers contrasting perspectives. ✦ Spitalfields Studios Upper Gallery

Kasia Kowalska, ‘Family Ties’. Tues 7th Oct - Sun 2nd Nov.
Stow Bazaar 115 High Street, Walthamstow, E17 7DB Mon - Sat 9am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 5pm Private View and Talk: Tuesday, 9th July 2024, 6.30pm - Free but booking essential.

Family Ties photography exhibition curated by Kasia Kowalska features thirteen artists who address compelling questions around how photography can both shape and reveal our distinctive perspectives on the subjects of memory, family, migration and temporality. All the exhibiting artists are associated with London Metropolitan University’s Photography degree course, be it as students, alumni or tutors, and thus belong to its unique photographic community. Instagrams: @crissfilimon @st.margarets.house @the.gallery.cafe @family_ties_exhibition# ✦ Gallery Cafe, St Margaret’s House

Group exhibition, ‘Home Is?’ Tues 7th Oct - Mon 17th Nov.
Gallery Cafe, St Margaret’s House 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL Mon - Sun 8:30am - 5pm Opening Event: Wed 8th Oct, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Home Is? brings together artists who look at what home means when it is both familiar and far away, solid and shifting. For some, it is found in childhood fields, family houses, or the quiet rhythm of ancestral landscapes. For others, it lives in movement; between countries, languages, between reality and fantasy OPENING EVENT Join Virginia Orr, Exhibition Co-Ordinator for another of our ‘In Coversation With’ as she chats with exhibiting artist/curator Dilyana Tankova and artists Kathrin McGeary, Ania Krypska, and Luca Artini as part of Home Is?. Together, we will explore the importance of the concept of home and why it continues to inspire artistic practice. Tickets: Free (registration is essential) ✦ Gallery Cafe, St Margaret’s House

Edwin Mingard and students at London East Alternative Provision, ‘never sleep’. Wed 8th - Sat 11th Oct.
Four Corners / Chisenhale Gallery 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm

Never sleep brings together a series of works by a group of students at London East Alternative Provision. Developed with artist, Edward Mingard, the group has explored the psychological and environmental pressures affecting young people and considered assumptions about who gets to be an artist. https://edwinmingard.com/#never-sleep ✦ Four Corners / Chisenhale Gallery

Joy Gregory, ‘Catching Flies with Honey’. Wed 8th Oct - 1st March 2026.
Whitechapel Gallery 77-78 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX Tues – Sun 11am - 6pm, Thurs 11am - 9pm

Joy Gregory’s work explores identity, history, race, gender and societal ideals of beauty, while expanding photography’s aesthetic and material possibilities. Gregory employs a diverse range of media and methods, encompassing Victorian photographic techniques such as cyanotypes and kallitypes, as well as digital media and performance. Conceptually rigorous and visually seductive, Gregory’s work invites important reflection on power structures, representation and cultural memory. The exhibition’s title comes from the proverb, ‘you catch more flies with honey than vinegar’, a phrase that Gregory’s mother used to say to her. It encapsulates her approach to art as political ‘with a small p’; her intimate, visually pleasurable and poetic works encouraging nuanced rather than polemical discussion. ✦ Whitechapel Gallery

Giles Price, ‘Phantom Pro’ Thurs 9th - Sun 26th Oct.
9 Heneage Street, London, E1 5LJ Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm

Phantom Pro explores the aftermath and reconstruction of Mosul, a city seized by ISIS in 2014 and subsequently destroyed in the battle to defeat them. It utilises the collection, transfer and interpretation of digital photographs using consumer technologies now used in warfare and the construction industries. ✦ 9 Heneage Street

Angela Chamlers & Tom Hunter, ‘Sacred Spaces’. Fri 10th Oct - Jan 2026.
St Anne's Church Limehouse, Three Colt St, London, E14 8HH

Angela Chalmers Adam and Eve. In Adam and Eve , Chalmers reimagines the biblical story of creation through a contemporary lens. Eve emerges as an archetype of the Earth Mother — a goddess symbolising fertility, abundance, and renewal. Together, Adam and Eve become more than mythological figures: they reflect shared human experiences, capturing the fragile balances of love, friendship, and conflict that unite us all.
Tom Hunters Prayer Places, is a series of images made in the East End of London over the last 20 years, documenting the variety and complexities of different buildings devoted to faith, religion and prayer. All the images have been made with a large format pinhole film camera, evoking the spiritual nature of these sacred spaces using exposures as long as an hour, giving the images a mystical unearthly quality. Tom Hunter takes us on a magical journey through the cultures and peoples of his native East End, giving us insights into mosques, synagogues, chapels, churches, temples and shrines, to reveal the hidden gems that enrich this culturally rich and diverse landscape. ✦ St Anne's Church

Sara Dobai, ‘Sarah Dobai & Little Warsaw’. Fri 10th Oct - Sat 8th Nov.
Danielle Arnaud Gallery 123 Kennington Rd, London, SE11 6SF By appointment only Please contact danielle@daniellearnaud.com

The exhibition brings together works by Budapest based artist collective Little Warsaw and London based artist Sarah Dobai. The premise for the show relates to their ongoing conversation which began with their shared interest in speculative fiction. The show takes place against the fraught political backdrop in Central Europe and beyond. Like much of Little Warsaw’s practice, Sarah Dobai's films and photographs included here reflect on the unintended consequences of historical circumstance and how this can frame the production and reception of the works in both practical and symbolic ways. ✦ Danielle Arnaud Galler

Group Exhibition, ‘I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies’ Fri 10th Oct - 31st March 2026.
Autograph Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA Wed & Fri 11am - 6pm, Thurs 11am - 9pm, Sat 12:30 - 6pm

This major group exhibition examines how photographs can be deconstructed and reassembled through the idea of collage, offering new perspectives on complex histories and contested social realities.
From cut paper to generative AI, more than 90 works by 13 contemporary artists use collage as both method and metaphor, highlighting the fragility of photographic ‘truth’ and the archives that hold it. Sabrina Tirvengadum uses an AI model she trained on family photographs to reconstruct a fractured history shaped by the legacy of indentured labour in Mauritius; Sunil Gupta’s digital collages from the 1990s navigate the intersections of queer identity and diasporic experience; and Qualeasha Wood transforms self-portraits into tapestries that reflect on bodily autonomy and the pressures of internet culture. Jess Atieno troubles colonial archives in East Africa to explore how histories can be restitched into counter-narratives, while Sheida Soleimani creates layered tableaux that link political exile from Iran with the care of injured migratory birds. ✦ Autograph

Frank Watson, ‘Out of Whack’. Sat 11th Oct - Sun 9th Nov.
Grey Gallery 4 Helmsley Place, London Fields, London, E8 3SB Thurs & Fri 12 - 4pm, Sat & Sun 12 - 5pm Or by appointment.

Out of Whack is a photographic exhibition that considers the English landscape in its many shapes and forms; how we abuse and mistreat it, whilst on the other hand idolising picture postcard depictions of pastoral scenes. The projects spanning the last twenty years attempt through the photographs to reveal an aesthetic towards often unloved spaces, whilst at the same time offering up a critique as to how industrial zones clash with the natural world, where housing developments level natural habitats and military ruins dot the landscape, some memorialised whilst others lie redundant. ✦ Frank Watson

Stella McGarvey, ‘Bound’. Sun 12th - Thurs 30th Oct.
Stage Gallery 55A Nigel Rd, London, SE15 4NP Wed - Sun 2 - 9pm Private View: Sat 11th October

Cyanotype workshop using UV lamps and materials related to the exhibition. Wed 22nd Oct 7pm-9pm Link to workshop tickets to follow. McGarvey’s upcoming solo show ‘Bound’, Stage Gallery, will feature a new sculptural work and bring together for the first time her ongoing photographic series Lovers. The show will be an immersion into her series of analogue photographs, shown as negatives, exploring the memories of a central broken kinetic sculpture. Spinning and unfurling an exploration of bonds, whether they be chosen or inescapable; the anthromorphic presences of the abandoned chairs stand small and glowing as totems of desire and of inevitability. ✦ Stage Gallery

Imagimage, ‘Photobook as Method: Connecting Asia-Pacific Photobook Publishing Practices’ Mon 13th - Thurs 16th Oct
Filet Space Old Street, N1 7QP Mon - Thurs 11am - 6pm Vernissage: Sun 12th Oct, 5 - 7pm

With special panel talk with artists and publishers (date to be announced) IMAGIMAGE Inspired by Pataphysics and Alfred Jarry's notion of the science of imaginary solutions'. Imagimage is a portmanteau of 'image' and 'imagination'. It explores real-world phenomena through not only logical and practical means, but also poetic, absurd, and symbolic responses -embracing paradox alongside reason. Imagimage is a platform dedicated to connecting artists, academics, and researchers, serving as a meeting point for conversations, inquiries, and progressive thoughts on images and visual culture.

A quarter-century after ‘Fotografía Pública’—the first major exhibition and catalogue to recognise the photobook as medium in its own right—the medium continues to flourish, supported by the rise of art book fairs and growing scholarly attention. While certain historical periods and regions, such as Japanese photobooks from the ‘60s and ‘70s have attracted sustained interest from collectors and researchers, much of the history and contemporary practice of photobooks across the Asia-Pacific remains an emerging and dynamic field.

Over the past decade, photobook publishing in the Asia-Pacific has gained remarkable momentum. This event gathers recent works by makers, publishers, and practitioners working in, around, and between China, Japan, India, Nepal, and beyond, offering reflections on the current state of photobook discourse across these regions.

The publications featured in the reading room explore themes of historical and fictional narratives, the documentary, vernacular images, freedom and intimacy, print culture, as well as community-building and world-making, Through their respective practices, the makers and contributors behind these photobooks collectively forms a rhizomatic entanglement that is the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today.

The inaugural instalment of the IMAGIMAGE Reading Room inquires into the ways in which the photobook functions as a method for connecting, converging, and intersecting visual cultures and publishing networks across and inbetween borders. ✦ Filet Space

Zed Nelson, ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’ Wed 15th - Sun 26th Oct
Filet Space The Art Pavilion Mile End Clinton Road, London, E3 4QY 11am - 6pm

Spanning the last six years, Zed Nelson’s new work, The Anthropocene Illusion, explores how, while we destroy the natural world around us, humans have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature; a reassuring spectacle, an illusion. The work reveals not only a phenomenon of denial and self-delusion, but also a genuine craving for a connection to a world we have turned our back on. ✦ The Art Pavilion Mile End

Sarah Ainslie, ‘Peripheries of an Urban Landscape’ Wed 15th - Tues 28th Oct.
House of Annetta 25 Princelet St, London, E1 6QH Mon - Sun 10am - 6pm Private View: Thurs 23rd October, 6 - 9pm

A landscape that is constantly in the process of change, was once bogs, marshes, farmland and industry lying along the arterial flow of the River Thames, which is now scattered with remnants of a past history but somehow unsure of its future, its present being caught in the middle, a space that is in-between different worlds. These photographs capture and hold the present and yet so quickly become the past the moment that shutter has clicked. A slippage of time zones where each moment asks so many questions about how we see this liminal space, what is in front of us and how we feel moving it. ✦ House of Annetta

Peter Kennard, Jenny Matthews, Kat Phillips, Kristian Buus, ‘GAZA’ Wed 15th - Sat 18th Oct.
Four Corners Ground Floor, 121 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm Launch Event: Tues 14th Oct, 6 - 8:30pm

www.kristianbuus.com www.peterkennard.com www.kennardphillipps.org http://jennymatthews.photoshelter.com

An exhibition by 4 activist/ artists/photographers marking two years of the recent past in Palestine leading to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Kristian Buus A series of documentary photos from the weekly demonstrations that have taken place in London in response to the war in Gaza

Peter Kennard ‘Gaza’, a set of prints made in the last two years in response to genocide and Western complicity.

Cat Phillipps Three photomontages modelling US/UK battleships with the physical embodiment of genocide in Gaza - Cat will run an action print space throughout the exhibition using photopolymer & linocut stamps inviting visitors to make their own responses to the genocide and current events on paper and clothing.

Jenny Matthews A series of archive images taken in Gaza between 1988 and 2009 , printed on cotton/linen with added embroidery - a response to the absolute destruction of a community.There are two large hangings of images sewn onto keffiyehs (traditional scarves) and 12 framed embroideries, many featuring tatreez, the traditional Palestinian cross stitch. During the exhibition Jenny will be sewing in the space (Weds to Friday) and visitors will be able to make their own small cross stitch embroideries. ✦ Four Corners

Group exhibition, ‘The thought of the innermost being’. Thurs 16th Oct - Fri 7th Nov.
Set Lewisham Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London, SE13 7RZ Thurs & Fri 2 - 7pm, Sat & Sun 12 - 5pm Private View: Thurs 16th Oct, 6 - 9pm

This exhibition aims to trouble the nature of an image-based society founded in spectacle, transparency and efficiency through the use of experimental photographic practices that corrupt, deconstruct, and transform the image. Single-frame films, moving image works and photographic prints will interact in a cohesive work that resists hierarchical modes of exhibition.

ARTISTS: Jack Jeffreys, Sofia Gil de Biedma, Ottilie Winfield Dani Germade, Walter Lumsden, Junko, Theresa Mikuriya.
✦ Set Lewisham

Group Exhibition, ‘SHUTTERESQUE’ Thurs 16th Oct - Sun 2nd Nov.
Hoxton Cabin, 132 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8DP Mon - Wed 4 - 11pm, Thurs - Fri 4pm - 2am, Sat 1pm - 2am, Sun 1 - 10pm

ARTISTS Neil Harman, Maurizio Coppola, Gianluca Barbazza, Bruno Ferrer Cortez, Monika Drabot, Alba de la Cruz Soto, Jean Kosse, Andrew Glickman, Atilla.
19th October 12pm Photowalk Mile End
26th October 12pm Photowalk Aldgate
31st October 7pm Halloween Photo Walk Tower Hamlets Cemetery

ARTISTS: Jack Jeffreys, Sofia Gil de Biedma, Ottilie Winfield Dani Germade, Walter Lumsden, Junko, Theresa Mikuriya.
✦ Hoxton Cabin

Klarita Pandolfi-Carr, ‘Revisiting’ Thurs 16th - Wed 22nd Oct
The Green Community Center 5 Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ 10am - 3pm (most days)

✦ Revisiting

Kristian Buus, ‘Ways to change the future - empathy as a tool for change.’ Thurs 16th - Sun 26th Oct.
Numbers Wine, 63 Vyner St, London, E2 9DQ, Thurs 11am - 5pm, Fri 11am - 10 pm, Sat & Sun 11am - 5pm Or by appointment. Opening Show: Wed 15th Oct, 6 - 8pm.

Moments of 25 years of climate activism, peaceful direct actions and civil disobedience. Hackney based photographer Kristian Buus has covered much of the UK climate activism over the past 25 years. His work spans from the Newbury bypass protest to portraits of young Just Stop Oil activists. The exhibition consists of moments through-out the past 25 years of documenting various campaigns and direct actions where people have put themselves on the line, risking their liberty fighting for a better and safer future. The show is a juxtaposition of portraits and interviews and reportage photography which brings together the collective efforts of the UK environmental and climate change movement. Contact Kristian Buus kbuus@kristianbuus.com / mob 07768055848 Instagram: @kbuus
✦ Numbers Wine

Seamus Murphy, ‘Strange Love’ Fri 17th Oct - Sun 2nd Nov.
Gallery 46, 46 Ashfield Street, London, E1 2AJ Tues - Sun 1 - 6pm Opening: Thurs 16th Oct, 6 - 9pm

✦ Gallery 46

Sara Hannant, ‘Panic: Visions of The Horned God in the English Country Garden’ Fri 17th - Sun 19th Oct.
Closing Event: With a presentation by Professor Ronald Hutton. Free tickets on website.

Closing Event: With a presentation by Professor Ronald Hutton. Free tickets on website.

Sara Hannant’s dreamlike images, made in camera, evoke the untamed and mystical qualities of the Great God Pan and his equivalents. Hannant takes us on a magical journey throughout England’s gardens and parks, giving us insights into how the Horned God has manifested within classical and contemporary sculpture. Most of these mythological statues were selected by the social elite during their Grand Tour of Europe.
✦ State 51

Amanda Eatwell, ‘Dwellings’ Fri 17th - Sun 26th Oct .
Lakeside Studios Bazalgette Way, London, SE2 9AN Sat & Sun: 2:30 - 5pm Private View: Fri 17th Oct

Amanda would like to open up a conversation about housing and the use, misuse, and non-use of properties in England. She has been creating images in her own neighbourhood to illustrate how things can look when an area is transitioning through a massive redevelopment phase. There are similar stories to be told all around the UK.
✦ Lakeside Studios

Group exhibition, ‘RABBIT HOLE’ Mon 20th - Thurs 30th Oct
WREN London, 39 Featherstone Street, London, EC1Y 8RE Tues - Fri 11am - 5pm By appointment.

Wren London, located in Old Street, was launched in May 2018 to acknowledge and reference the ever-evolving East London art and design movement that surrounds it both geographically and aesthetically. A gallery without a roster of artists, it focuses on showcasing inspiring and influential artists working at the forefront of the contemporary photographic world. The gallery brings a specialist insight into the rise of photography as a medium within the art world, and can advise on collecting for both corporate and private collections.
✦ Wren London

Kate Peters, ‘Embodied Fictions’ Thurs 23rd - Sun 26th Oct.
Host 658 High Road, Leyton, E10 6JP Fri - Sun 10 am - 5pm Private view: Thurs 23rd October 6-9pm

‘A work in progress exhibition of my photographs from my new series ‘Embodied Fictions’. For the past couple of years I have been collaborating with some incredible clowns to make images that explore the relationship between performance and identity.’

Featuring the insane talents of: @paulinalenoir @trollcomedyshow @rubygaskell @not.little.wenker @freddiehayesofficial @ifindoubtaskella @franklyfrankie98 @coralbevan @deliadelianyc @purkinao @xhloeandnatasha @champagnetashi @ariellelauzon
Private View RSVP: info@katepeters.co.uk
✦ Host

Lyndsay Milne Mcleod, ‘LONGING. Reach Beyond the Visible’ Thurs 23rd Oct - Thurs 13th Nov.
The House - MAH gallery 2b Vyner St, London, E2 9DG By appointment Thurs & Fri 9am - 5pm. Weekend viewing: 1st & 2nd Nov

A group photography exhibition curated by Lyndsay Milne McLeod. Set within the evocative interiors of The House, this exhibition brings together photographers who work commercially but whose personal work reveals deeper insights beyond their professional commissions. Guided as much by emotional truth as aesthetics, the exhibition looks at the longing behind personal practice, the unseen forces behind creativity: grief, yearning, memory, love, and our desire to connect with story-laden objects and nature.

Simon Wheeler, ‘Wet Feet’ Thurs 23rd - Sun 26th Oct.
The Batsford Gallery 268 Hackney Rd, London, E2 7SJ Tues - Sun 1 - 6pm Thurs 16th Oct, 6 - 9pm

A photographic essay of 25-35 images on The Killarney National Park, Co Kerry, Ireland to accompany the artist book Wet Feet.

✦ The Batsford Gallery

Francesco Ragazzi, ‘Broadway Market’ Thurs 23rd Oct - Sat 1st Nov.
Claire de Rouen Books 260 Globe Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 0JD Wed to Sat, 12 - 6pm Book Launch: Wed 22nd Oct, 6 - 9pm

“Since 2015 I have been living and working on this ancient drovers’ road used once to connect Essex and the slaughterhouses of Smithfield.
Today, no slaughterhouse involved, a rich variety of people walks here in droves, especially on market day. Not only on Saturdays, Broadway Market is a meeting place for a new type of inhabitants, those responsible for the gentrification of Hackney. I have been a witness of this phenomenon, occurring since early 2000, and found great interest in watching how locals, new locals and people from all the neighbouring Boroughs overlay their lives in this very concentrated habitat.

Looking out of the window of the shop while I was working, I saw a stream of life passing by, almost overwhelming. Along with my usual routine of walking with a camera, I decided to use the Time-lapse to build a complex portrait of this significant corner of London.
✦ Claire de Rouen Books

Bryony Fraser, ‘London: Time and Tide’ Sat 25th Oct - Sun 2nd Nov.
Art in the Docks Gallery 25 Shackleton Way, London, E16 2XJ

Amaan Ali, ‘Ruins of a Body’ Fri 24th - Mon 27th Oct.
Safe House 2 137 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN Sat - Mon 12 - 5pm Private View: Fri 24th Oct, 6 - 9pm

On January 8th, 2020, flight PS752 was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. Among the 176 lives lost was Ghanimat Azhdari, a PhD student at the University of Guelph. Her death was sudden and violent and left behind a silence too vast to contain. The project weaves together still photographs, moving images, and intimate artifacts left by Ghanimat—a diary, a necklace with a pomegranate pendant, and worn pieces of jewellery. These objects carry presence beyond absence, material traces of a life abruptly ended.
✦ Safe House 2

Group Exhibition, ‘The People’s Gallery’ Fri 24th Oct - Sat 6th Dec
Four Corners 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm Opening: Thurs 23rd October, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

‘The People’s Gallery’ explores the vibrant community photography of 1970s East London. Part of a flourishing alternative arts scene of poetry, theatre and music, the tiny Half Moon Gallery drew photographers seeking to document everyday, working-class lives. The exhibition will include work by Ron McCormick, Diane Bush, Dennis Morris, Ray Rising and others.
✦ Four Corners

Xinyu & Iris Jingyi Huang & Zen, ‘Unnamed, unhollow. Unwritten, unservered’ Fri 31st Oct - Mon 3rd Nov.
Safe House 1 139 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN Preview: Fri 31st Oct, 6 - 9pm

A current stirs in the white space, a quiet fission unfolds — is home.
✦ Safe House 1 - book via eventbrite

Missing Info: Arthur Tress, ‘The Presidential Cabinet’ DATES flyposting around Hackney WEBSITE
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Originally exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery, The Presidential Cabinet was a series of 12 Cibachrome prints made in response to Ronald Reagan’s second term in office. The work offered a pointed visual critique of conservative politics at the time — grotesque, satirical, and unapologetically bold. With recent political shifts echoing those Reagan-era anxieties, I’ve decided to revisit the series. I’m exploring the idea of reissuing the work as large-scale inkjet posters, potentially for outdoor public display — perhaps as a visual protest in the age of Trump.
✦ The Photographers Gallery

Belinda Worsley & Annabel Elston, ‘Paths’ DATES
Finch Cafe 12 Sidworth St, London, E8 3SN Mon - Sat 9am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 5pm

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✦ The Photographers Gallery

Group exhibition, ‘Transition’ Weekdays from 11:00am – 16:30pm, Thursday 30 October – Friday 7 November.
UAL Camberwell College of Art 45-65 Peckham Rd, London, SE5 8UF OPENING TIMES ?

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✦ @camberwellualphotoy

Joy Gregory Wed 8th Oct - Mon 3rd Nov
Nimtim Architects Unit 1, 17-19 Blackwater St, London, SE22 8SD. Window. display 24/7

✦ Nimtim Architects

Maria Eugenia D’Andrea, ‘Yo Vivo Mexico’ DATES ?
Melanin, Health and Wellness 1 Bodley Wy, London, SE17 1FN OPENING TIMES ?

From midnight on 31st October to the 2nd of November the gate of the heaven is open and the spirits of all deceased children (angelitos) and adults are allowed to reunite with their families for 2 days, to enjoy the "ofrenda": flowers, food, music, cigarettes and alcohol, to participate for 24 hours to the life again.
✦ Maria Eugenia D'Andreay

Polina Piëch, ‘Painted Winds: Fall at Dawn’ Fri 3rd Oct - Mon 3rd Nov
Roman Road Gallery 69 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QW OPENING TIMES Opening: Fri 3rd October TIMES ? ?

Roman Road is pleased to announce a solo presentation Painted Winds: Fall at Dawn by recent graduate from the Royal College of Art (RCA), Polina Piëch. This presentation coincides with the launch of Roman Road’s transformed Beyond Studio space, reimagined as a hub for learning, research, and artistic exchange. The new space will host courses, a reference library, and a programme of artist presentations.
✦ Roman Road GalleryMaria Eugenia D'Andreay

Sue Parkhill, ‘A-Z’ Sat 4th - Sat 25th Oct
Brady Arts & Community Centre 192 -196 Hansbury St. London, E1 5HU Mon - Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat 10am - 4pm Private view: ?

"When I first moved to London from Australia over 30 years ago, the only way to not get lost and to find your route to somewhere new was by using the A-Z map book. Everyone had one. It showed you the way. This work is my own visual A-Z; photos over the years from trips back to Australia, my personal map, a record of memory and longing so I can always find my way back."
✦ Brady Arts & Community Centre

Maria Eugenia D'Andrea, "Yo Vivo, Mex" October 24th - Nov 3rd 2025
Melanine Center 1 BODLEY WAY, SE17 1FN

Longing unfolds in moments of transition. The search of what we once had and then lost; the nourishment(?) of curiosity; a subconscious energy (?) directing every day human’ actions. drives (?) self preservation with the temptation of future contentment. Departure, absence, the quiet ache of what lies beyond. In these five photographs, I explore how yearning shapes intimate rituals and journeys.
✦ Melanine Center

Tomoko Yoneda, ‘Afterimage’, Thurs 24th Oct - Fri 21 Nov,
Apt 235, St John Street, London, EC1V 4NG.

Friday 24th October – Monday 3rd November:
Opening Hours
Tuesday 10:30 - 5:00
Wednesday 10:30 - 5:00
Thursday 10:30 - 5:00
Friday 10:30 - 5:00

Tuesday 4th November to Friday the 21st November :
Opening Hours
Tuesday 11 - 5:00
Wednesday 11 - 5:00
Thursday 11 - 5:00
Plus appointments info@whiteconduitprojects.uk Closed on weekends.
✦ Whiteconduit Projects