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Beatles Girl, 1964
Photo London marks its 10th anniversary with a special edition celebrating the capital and its rich traditions of photography. Featured at this year’s fair is Joseph McKenzie who pioneered the teaching of photography within the UK’s art education establishment. His lifetime ambition was to gain acceptance for photography as fine art. McKenzie worked predominantly as a social documentary photographer – ‘a man with a conscience’ – focused on people in everyday life. Photo London is at Somerset House, London, 15–18 May
Photograph: Joseph McKenzie/Mckenzie & Hamilton Gallery
Fire masks, Downshire Hill, London, 1941
This year’s Lee Miller Archives booth at Photo London will centre mostly on her war journalism, tying the booth to the movie Lee. Photo London gives collectors the opportunity to buy a piece of history before the major forthcoming exhibition at Tate Britain in October. You can see more in our gallery here
Photograph: Lee Miller/Lee Miller Archives
The Elgin Majorettes, Drummies series, 2017–2020
Alice Mann’s series Drummies depicts the unique and aspirational subculture surrounding all-female teams of drum majorettes. The Elgin Majorettes team is made up of girls from a number of schools around the area. These four girls attend St Michael’s Primary. The team’s coach is also the headmaster of the school
Photograph: Alice Mann
Female Boxers, 2024
Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art photographer renowned for her cinematic visual storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes, each image embellishing her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking ‘stories’ using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques
Photograph: Julia Fullerton-Batten
Casual, 1995
Mary McCartney’s work is based around creating intimate connections with her sitters – and inviting the viewer to become a participant in the image as well as an observer. You can see more of her work in this gallery of London photographers
Photograph: Mary McCartney
Blending In, 2018
Bee Gats is a Latino photographer from Miami. He creates gritty, raw and unfiltered portraits of Miami’s underground – a world he himself grew up in – often including images of guns and gang violence
Photograph: BeeGats/Mortal Machine
Venus 02, 2024
Fantastical supernatural creatures, intimate portraits of London girlhood and delicate works printed on glass and single leaves make up Sarabande’s House of Bandits’ first foray into Photo London. This image explores the transition between states of health, illness and wellbeing, using recycled materials related to rest and recovery (pillows, mattresses, duvets) to create tactile shapes that envelop the body
Photograph: Paloma Tendero/Sarabande Foundation
Untitled, 2023
Margriet Smulders’ still lifes, which she started photographing in the 1990s, use mirrors, elaborate glass vases and rich draperies alongside vibrant florals. They often reference Greek myths of love, rivalry, jealousy and bloodshed using abstract imagery
Photograph: Margeriet Smulders/Contour Gallery
Overflow, 2025
Petite Doll is a current artist in residence at Sarabande, practising across photography, video and digital art. Her work fuses self-portraiture and surrealism by inhabiting different characters, with meticulous attention to detail given to the props and sets she handcrafts herself
Photograph: Petite Doll AKA Giulia Grillo/House of Bandits by Sarabande foundation
Las taparas de Caruao, 2021
Gabriel Pinto, a young Venezuelan photographer and researcher, focuses on ethnographic research and photography. Pinto’s work focuses on celebrating, honouring and preserving African-Venezuelan culture, inspired by his deep connection to his heritage in Barlovento, where 100,000 African people were taken as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries. They were forced to work as labourers on cocoa haciendas – this history has resulted in strong regional traditions, cuisine and crafts
Photograph: Gabriel Pinto/BETA Contemporary
Julia, from My Eyes Have Seen You
Omri Emile Rosengart collected stories over four years for his book. The moments shared are preserved pieces of his continued journey, revealing his thoughts towards each memory presented. There will be a book signing at Photo London
Photograph: Omri Emile Rosengart/Bright Gallery
Molly Matalon, When a Man Loves a Woman, 2020
Matalon’s work deals with desire and power dynamics, fixing a gaze that empowers and provides a rarely seen female photographic viewpoint. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times among others
Photograph: Molly Matalon/Palm Studios
Untitled, from Before Freedom, 2022
Adam Rouhana is a Palestinian-American artist whose photography deconstructs Orientalism within the broader context of Palestine. He questions his position as a Palestinian behind the camera, both as a westerner, having grown up in the US, and as an Arab. He is often inspired by domestic life from his early memories in Palestine
Photograph: Adam Rouhana
Pablo Picasso at Hotel Vaste Horizon, 1937
Amar Gallery will present the revolutionary photograms and photographs by Dora Maar, alongside Stephen Shames, the official photographer for the Black Panther party. Both Maar and Shames fought for equality, often using their art to highlight social issues
Photograph: Dora Maar/Amar Gallery
Angela Davis, 1960s
Amar Gallery’s presentation is an example of exhibitors using their space to highlight social issues, in this case forefronting messages of revolution, equality and justice
Photograph: Stephen Shames/Amar Gallery
Feast II, 2024
Shooting almost exclusively on black and white film and using traditional developing techniques – in this case multiple-exposure silver gelatin prints – in his home studio, Robin Hunter Blake sets out to explore the more tangible processes in image making. He has a pure and poetic approach to process
Photograph: Robin Hunter Blake/Guerin Projects
Baldwin Lee, Charleston, South Carolina, 1984
These intimate portrayals of daily life in the American south, particularly of childhood experience and joy, are vintage Baldwin Lee works of the 1980s
Photograph: Baldwin Lee/David Hill Gallery
Running, 2024
Klea McKenna demonstrates a return to traditional techniques, and the celebration of the objectivity of a photograph as something to be seen in real life and to be experienced
Photograph: Klea McKenna/EUQINOM
Jaraguatambu, 2024
Bendana-Pinel gallery shows one of Brazil’s leading contemporary photographers, Caio Reisewitz, whose work explores the changing relations of city and countryside in light of the climate emergency, both in Brazil and the rest of the world. Brazil is a nation of contradictions, caught between a desire to preserve an exceptionally rich environmental heritage and the will for exponential growth. Reisewitz seeks to capture the image of a fragile beauty, that of an unspoiled nature; an Eden endangered by deforestation, oil exploitation and expansion of settlements
Photograph: Caio Reisewitz/Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain
Drum cover girl Erlin Ibreck stepping out of a Jaguar in Kilburn, London, 1966
Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière returns to the fair with works by Martin Parr and James Barnor. Photographs by Barnor from his studio in London in the late 60s celebrate his pioneering role in bridging Ghanaian and British cultural identities through photography
Photograph: James Barnor/Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Mayor of Todmorden’s inaugural banquet, West Yorkshire, 1977
Early works by Parr offer a glimpse into the development of his keen observational style
Photograph: Martin Parr/Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
