The Centre for British Photography stages its own exhibitions and also works with partners.
Details of its touring exhibition programme and exhibition packages can be found here: TOURING EXHIBITIONS
Past Exhibitions
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Anna Fox and Paul Reas: The 80s
The Photography Sales Gallery 19 Nov - 19 Dec 2024 As we approach the Tate’s highly anticipated exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain , we invite you to explore the works of two of the decade’s most important photographers: Anna Fox and Paul Reas. VIEW ONLINE EXHIBITION VIEW PDF CATALOGUE This online exhibition offers an insight into 1980s British... Read more -
PAUL HILL. VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS
PHOTOGRAPHY SALES GALLERY 15 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Paul Hill. Vintage Works presents a rare group of vintage photographs from three of Hill’s most important early bodies of work, his photojournalism of the late 1960s and early 1970s, his celebrated semi-surrealist Prenotations of the mid 1970s, and his later landscapes of the Peak District from the series White... Read more -
SHIRLEY BAKER. PAVEMENT CRACKS
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SALES GALLERY 24 Sep - 22 Nov 2024 Taking its name from a recurring motif in Lemn Sissay’s poem Flag, this exhibition presents unseen street photographs by Shirley Baker made in and around Manchester. In each case, the artist links the fabric of the city to memory and emotion and embeds the subject in the life of the... Read more -
John Deakin's Paris
The Photography Sales Gallery 10 Sep - 22 Nov 2024 John Deakin is today acknowledged as one of the greatest British photographer’s of the twentieth century. However his vintage photographs are incredibly rare, so rare in fact that until this exhibition there does not seem to have been a selling show since 1956! VIEW EXHIBITION VIEW PDF CATALOGUE... Read more -
Kingdom of The Beasts
The animal portraits of Wolfgang Suschitzky 24 Jul - 9 Sep 2024 The Photography Sales Gallery at the Centre for British Photography presents a rare opportunity to acquire examples of Suschitzky's acclaimed animal photographs. VIEW PDF CATALOGUE VIEW WORKS ONLINE Zoology was the first love of the great photographer and cinematographer, Wolfgang Suschitzky. His first photographs of animals date from before... Read more -
SIMON MARSDEN
Visions of a Ghost Hunter 26 Mar - 26 Jun 2024 Simon Marsden was one of the most remarkable British photographers of the last half century famed for his infra-red photographs of buildings and landscape and his exploration of the presence of the supernatural in the historical sites that he recorded. He travelled widely, but for the first online exhibition we... Read more -
UNCHARTED STREETS
KURT HUTTON, BILL BRANDT, EDITH TUDOR-HART, CHARLIE PHILLIPS, MARKÉTA LUSKAČOVÁ 17 Jan - 8 Mar 2024 Curated by the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, and the Centre for British Photography, Uncharted Streets: Photographers from the Hyman Collection presents five photographers who were born outside the UK but have been central to the development of photography in Britain over the last century. The title alludes to... Read more -
Nothing to lose. The Punk Photographs of Caroline Coon
17 Nov - 17 Dec 2023 The Photography Sales Gallery at the Centre for British Photography is pleased to present Nothing to Lose. The Punk Photographs of Caroline Coon. This is the very first time that Caroline Coon’s celebrated punk photographs have been editioned. The artist, Caroline Coon, was part of the early Punk scene and... Read more -
Charlie Phillips. How Great Thou Art
50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London 5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 Charlie Phillips’ How Great Thou Art - 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London is a sensitive photographic documentary of the social and emotional traditions that surround death in London’s African Caribbean community. This will be the first time that the Centre for British Photography’s main space will present... Read more -
Daniel Meadows. Free Photographic Omnibus, 50th Anniversary
5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 On 22 September 1973, Daniel Meadows set off on a long-planned adventure in a rickety 1948 double-decker bus that he had repurposed as his home, gallery and darkroom. He was intent on making a portrait of England. He was 21 years old. Over the next 14 months, travelling alone, Meadows... Read more -
Dorothy Bohm. London Street Markets
5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 London’s street markets and especially the people who worked there were an important aspect of Bohm’s engagement with London. Having run a successful portrait studio in Manchester in the late 1940s and 1950s, it was only in the 60s and 70s, after she settled in London, that Bohm turned her... Read more -
Grace Lau. Portraits In a Chinese Studio
5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 BOOK HERE • Choose a timeslot • Tickets cost £15.00 (for between 1 and 15 people) • Scroll down to 'add-ons' to purchase a 10 x 10' or 20 x 20' photograph printed by Genesis Imaging, one of the UK’s leading photographic printers. • Checkout • Each booking will last... Read more -
Arpita Shah. Modern Muse
5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 Drawing from and subverting the conventions of Mughal and Indian miniature paintings from ancient to pre-colonial times, Arpita Shah’s Modern Muse visually and conceptually explores the ever-shifting identities and representations of South Asian women in contemporary Britain. The portraits give an insight into the perspectives of what it means to... Read more -
OPEN CALL
YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS AGED 14 - 21 5 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 We were overwhelmed by how many amazing submissions we received and of such high quality! A display of works by six young photographers will be shown in the Centre’s windows and foyer spaces. Printing costs are sponsored by Genesis Imaging , one of the UK’s leading photographic printers. LUCAS CANNON... Read more -
Open Call. Countryside-Landscape-Environment
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 ROSIE BARNES RIO BLAKE ALIKI BRAINE ELAINE DUIGENAN MARIO POPHAM AARON SCHUMAN Read more -
Landscape Trauma
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 Landscape Trauma explores the different ways in which we impact the landscape and suggests that nature cannot be viewed without considering our relationship to it. Landscape is understood as a site of history and conflict as well as the subject of more recent human interventions that include farming, industry, oil... Read more -
John Blakemore. Seduced by Light
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 John Blakemore: Seduced by Light brings together black and white landscapes and unique artist’s books to explore movement and light. The exhibition includes black and white landscapes made in Wales and England. These range from early works that respond to the movement of water to later works taken in a... Read more -
Helen Sear
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 Helen Sear presents a series of large-scale works that combine multiple images to emphasise the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In giving equal status to the human and natural, Sear observes the landscape as another body. In the lightbox Caetera Fumus a rapeseed field is pierced by... Read more -
Jermaine Francis. A Storied Ground
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 Jermaine Francis: A Storied Ground is the London premiere of this recent body of work. In it Francis uses multiple images to explore a Black presence in nature. Historically the Black figure is absent in the English landscape, which has a strong relationship to nationalism and colonialism. Francis considers how... Read more -
Mandy Barker. Plastic Soup
8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 The work of award-winning photographer, Mandy Barker, is created to raise awareness of marine plastic pollution and has received global recognition. This is its first showing in London of Plastic Soup which was initially staged by the National Trust at Laycock Abbey. In this immersive exhibition Barker uses visual interpretation... Read more -
EDWIN SMITH. EVOCATION
PHOTOGRAPHY SALES GALLERY 8 Jun - 24 Sep 2023 The poignant images included in Evocation present Edwin Smith’s concern for the fragility of the environment in early 20th century Britain. A master of texture and light, Smith’s compositions capture historic architecture and countryside that are rooted in time and place. Read more -
Dafydd Jones. England: The last Hurrah
PHOTOGRAPHY SALES GALLERY 24 Apr - 29 Aug 2023 Read more -
Paul Hill: Platinum Prenotations
Photography Sales Gallery 27 Jan - 23 Apr 2023 Paul Hill has produced a limited edition set of platinum-palladium prints of some of his most recognised and seminal images. Prized for their rich, subtle tonal quality, wealth of fine detail and stability, platinum-palladium prints are at the summit of traditional photographic printing. Proposing a fresh interpretation of a selection... Read more -
Shirley Baker: Street Life
Photography Sales Gallery 27 Jan - 23 Apr 2023 We are delighted to present this opportunity to acquire Shirley Baker's most celebrated street scenes photographed araound Manschester and Salford. The display features many of her best loved photographs. All works come direct from the Estate of Shirley Baker. Shirley Baker was one of the only women practising street photography... Read more -
The English at Home
20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 The English at Home: 20th Century Domestic Photographs from the Hyman Collection presents over 150 works to explore the central place of the home in British photography over the last century. The exhibition takes its title from one of the most important twentieth century photography publications, Bill Brandt’s first book,... Read more -
Jo Spence: Fairytales and Photography
Curated by the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive (Birkbeck, University of London) and the Centre for British Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 Jo Spence (1934- 1992) is a key figure in British photography of the last fifty years. A photographer, writer, educator and photo therapist, her work has proved highly influential on subsequent generations of photographers and writers. Spence began her career as a commercial photographer, specialising in family portraits and wedding... Read more -
Headstrong: Women and Empowerment
Curated by Fast Forward: Women in Photography 26 Jan - 28 May 2023 Self-portraiture has always been a tool of empowerment for women. Societies have led us to believe that, as women, we have a certain place and need to perform in a certain way and this has been like wearing a straight jacket. Feminist politics have affected changes to these patriarchal ideas... Read more -
Natasha Caruana: Fairytale for Sale
26 Jan - 28 May 2023 Natasha Caruana's Fairytale for Sale is a recent acquisition by The Hyman Collection. The installation explores wedding customs in the UK, revealing the fantasy, performance and trophy moments of the traditional big day. The series consists of online adverts of brides wearing redundant wedding dresses. The smiling faces of the... Read more -
Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox: Spitting/Spitting Image
26 Jan - 28 May 2023 In 2015 The Hyman Collection commissioned Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox to respond to the original Fluk and Law Spitting Image puppets of Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet Ministers in our collection. One of the most popular British television programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, watched by an audience of... Read more -
Heather Agyepong: Wish You Were Here
26 Jan - 28 May 2023 In 2019 The Hyman Collection commissioned Heather Agyepong to respond to early twentieth century postcard imagery reflecting the dance craze in Europe, The Cake Walk. The resulting series was named Wish You Were Here (2020). Artist's Statement by Heather Agyepong: 'Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it,... Read more
