London has produced many of the twentieth century’s greatest photojournalists and fashion photographers – Terence Donovan, David Bailey, Don McCullin and Norman Parkinson among them. And although the medium sometimes struggles to be accepted as fine art, the first (and so far only) photographer to win the Turner Prize, Wolfgang Tillmans in 2000, was also a Londoner, albeit an adopted one.
The capital’s thriving and ever-expanding art scene is home to galleries that show and sell photography in all its forms, from the earliest nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to limited-edition fine-art prints and documentary shots of celebrities and pop stars.
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We have Jules Wright, the brains behind the ingenious re-use of a former hydraulic station in Wapping (that’s sadly closed), to thank for this addition to Mayfair. Set up in 2009 in Bankside - hence the name - to showcase the talents of the artists Wright worked with at The Wapping Project, the gallery moved to its new central London location in the summer of 2014. You can discover cutting-edge contemporary photographer’s like Elina Brotherus, Annabel Elgar, Edgar Martins, Jeffrey Stockbridge and Mitra Tabrizian who’s work leans towards the theatrical and filmic.
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