Photography Exhibitions 2010: We list some of the main photography exhibitions over the coming year.
Whether you need a little inspiration or you’re keen to see some of your favourite photographer’s work close-up, What Digital Camera runs through some of the main photography exhibitions over the coming year.
Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910
Price: £5/£4.50/£4
Date(s): 15 July – 24 October 2010
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
About the exhibition: Silvy has been described as one of the greatest photographers of the nineteenth century, and this exhibition includes over 100 images – some of which have not been exhibited since 1860.
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Glastonbury: Photographs by Venetia Dearden
Price: Free
Date(s): 19 April – 3 October 2010
Location: National Portrait Gallery (Bookshop Gallery), London
About the photography exhibition: Having grown up next door to the festival site, Venetia Deardren marks 40 years of Glastonbury with a selection of images from the event.
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Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography
Price: TBA
Date(s): 13 October 2010 – 20 February 2011
Location: V&A Museum, The Porter Gallery
About the photography exhibition: Five artists do away with convention, showing that cameras aren’t strictly necessary in order to create a photograph.
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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Price: £10/£8.50 (free for Tate members)
Date(s): 28 May – 3 October 2010
Location: Tate Modern, London
About the photography exhibition: ‘Exposed’ explores over 100 years worth of images taken on the sly, featuring works from a number of renowned photographers such Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helmut Newton.
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Eadweard Muybridge
Price: £10/£8.50 (free for Tate members)
Date(s): 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011
Location: Tate Britain, London
About the photography exhibition: Muybridge is perhaps best known for recording and exploring the movements of animals and humans, and this is the first major UK retrospective of his work.
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Kurt Tong: In Case It Rains in Heaven and Memories, Dreams; Interrupted
Price: TBA
Date(s): 30 July 2010 – 26 September 2010
Location: Photofusion, London
About the photography exhibition: Two projects feature in this exhibition from British-based artist Kurt Tong, concerning Chinese tradtition and the idea of memories respectively.
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Alex Prager: Week End
Price: TBA
Date(s): 10 June 2010 – 17 July 2010
Location: Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: Prager has recently been selected by New York City’s MOMA for its forthcoming autumn exhibition, with this collection showing both her still images and her first steps into the world ofthe moving image.
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Sally Mann: The Family and the Land
Price: Free
Date(s): 18 June 2010 – 19 September 2010
Location: The Photographer’s Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: Sally Mann’s first UK solo exhibition sees over twenty years of her images chosen from a variety of projects.
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Marks of Honour: A Striking Library
Price: Free
Date(s): 18 June 2010 – 1 August 2010
Location: Photographers Gallery, London (Bookshop Gallery)
About the photography exhibition: Photographers Harvey Benge, Jens Liebchen, Michael Light, Onaka Koji and Mark Power each pay tribute to a photography publication that has influenced their work.
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Portraits
Price: Free
Date(s): 18 June 2010 – 18 July 2010
Location: Annroy Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: Rankin’s new gallery is the home for his latest exhibition, which brings together the various celebrities, politicians and even monarchs that have fronted his lens over the past 20 years
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Foto8 – Summershow 2010
Price: TBA
Date(s): 26 July 2010 – 4 September 2010
Location: Host Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: From over 2500 individually submitted images spanning many genres, the HOST gallery presents its Foto8 Summershow with more than 150 images on display.
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Chris Steele-Perkins: England My England
Price: Free
Date(s): 18 June 2010 – 30 July 2010
Location: Kings Place Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins presents his images of the English way of life.
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Title: Third Greenwich Annuale
Price: TBA
Date(s): 12 August 2010 to 12 September 2010
Location: Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London
About the photography exhibition: Over 50 photographers from the The Greenwich Group of London Independent Photography exhibit their work.
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The Taylors Estate Sale in 1913
Price: Free
Date(s): 2 April 2010 – 31 October 2010
Location: Sarehole Mill, Birmingham
About the photography exhibition: Images of old farms in the Hall Green and Billesley area, as well as information on the sale of much of the Taylor estate around Billesley, Moseley and Hall Green.
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Steve McCurry – Retrospective
Price: Free
Date(s): 26th June 2010 – 17th October 2010
Location: Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
About the photography exhibition: A major retrospective of McCurry’s work, who is famed his portrait ‘Afghan Girl’.
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Up Close
Price: Free
Date(s): 2nd April 2010 – 31st October 2010
Location: Blakesely Hall, Birmingham
About the photography exhibition: Artist and photographer Sharon Johnstone presents a collection of macro work taken in the Blakesley Hall gardens.
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Simon Roberts: We English
Price: Free
Date(s): 12 March 2010 – 5 September 2010
Location: National Media Museum, West Yorkshire
About the photography exhibition: Dubbed as ‘an investigation of the English at leisure’, Roberts presents his large format images taken all around the country.
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Robbie Cooper: Immersion
Price: Free
Date(s): 12 March 2010 – 5 September 2010
Location: National Media Museum, West Yorkshire
About the photography exhibition: Cooper was said to have been insipred watching teenagers absorbed in computer games for this exhibition, and his prints show those unguarded moments of immersion in different types of media.
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Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron – Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection
Price: Free
Date(s): 12 June 20101 – 21 August 2010
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery
About the photography exhibition: With images of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria picked from the Royal Collection, complemented with a some work from nineteenth-century pioneering photographer George Washington Wilson.
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Sophie Ingleby: Known/Unknown
Price: Free
Date(s): 31 July 2010 – 4 September 2010
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery
About the photography exhibition: Works by painter Philip de László are the subject of Ingleby’s exhibition, which examines their owners and the environments in which they exist.
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Ayoung Kim: Minima Memoria
Price: Free
Date(s): 5 June 2010 – 1 August 2010
Location: Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
About the photography exhibition: Kim displays her photographic works inspired by the real-life crimes and events reported in newspapers.
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Rimaldas Viksraitis: Grimaces of The Weary Village
Price: Free
Date(s): 5 June 2010 – 1 August 2010
Location: Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
About the photography exhibition: In this exhibition, photographer Rimaldas Viksraitis shows the rural way of life of fellow Lithuanians.
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Chris Weston: The Last Great Event
Price: £4/£3.50
Date(s): 9 July 2010 – 1 August 2010
Location: Dimbola Galleries and Photographic Museum, Isle of Wight
About the photography exhibition: Forty years on from the legendary 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Chris Weston displays a selection of black and white images taken at the event.
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Charles Everest: The Camer-on Life Festival Experience
Price: £4/£3.50
Date(s): 11 June to 12 September
Location: Dimbola Galleries and Photographic Museum, Isle of Wight
About the photography exhibition: Over 70 images including artists such as Jimi Henrix, Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis.