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.
Zed Nelson
The Anthropocene Illusion, Mile End Arts Pavilion, 15th October- 26th October, 2025 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
Wonderland
WONDERLAND, The Joy of Analogue. Portraits 1955-1995,Yorkton Workshops,2nd October – 16th October 2025, Yorkton Workshops, Pearson Lloyd, 1-3 Yorkton Street, London E2 8NH. 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
The People’s Gallery
The Peoples Gallery, Community photography in 1970s East London, Friday 24 October – Saturday 6 December 2025, Exhibition Opening Night: Thursday 23 October, 6.30 – 8.30pm (Free admission), Exhibition opening hours 11am – 6pm Wednesday – Saturday, Four Corners, 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 0QN. @fourcornerse2 The People’s Gallery explores the vibrant community photography
Seamus Murphy
Strange Love, Gallery 46, 46 Ashfield St, London, E1 2AJ, October, @gallery46whitechapel. With his book Strange Love, Seamus Murphy challenges the conventional narrative of East versus West, offering a striking visual exploration of life in post-industrial America and Russia. Strange Love serves as a timely reflection on the fragile, sometimes indistinguishable line separating the two countries. While the powerful engage in
Joy Gregory
Joy Gregory,Catching Flies with Honey, Whitechapel Gallery, 8 October 2025 – 1 March 2026, @whitechaplegallery. In 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will present the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist Joy Gregory (b.1959), winner of the eighth annual Freelands Awards, and one of the most innovative artists working with photography today. Gregory has influenced generations of younger artists
Frank Watson
Frank Watson, Out of Whack,Grey Gallery,Saturday 11th OctoberSunday 9th November 2025Open: Thursdays and Fridays, 12 noon – 4pm,Saturdays and Sundays 12 noon – 5pm or by appointment 07910359087 Private View: Saturday 11th October 2 – 4pm@thegreygallerylondon. Grey Gallery, 4 Helmsley Place, London Fields, E8 3SB. Out of Whack is a photographic exhibition that considers the English landscape
Barry Lewis
Intersections A portrait of London through the people.The Source, Source Studios (formely Stratford Circus), Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX London’s population is 9.32 million and, like an enormous ant’s nest, is constantly on the move, working, playing, socialising, criss-crossing on complex journeys by foot, bike, road and train. As Londoners we both share our
Arthur Tress
The Presidential Cabinet (1980s / 2020s)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
Angela Chalmers & Tom Hunter
Sacred Spaces, St Anne Church, Limehouse,October. 10th October – January 2026 Angela Chalmers Adam and Eve. In Adam and Eve (blue images below), 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