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Brigitte Bardot on the set of Les Petroleuses, Spain, 1971
PhotoMonth is a festival of 50 pop-up exhibitions across east and south-east London that run until 3 November. It opens with Wonderland, which brings together some of the finest portrait work made in camera and in the darkroom over a 40-year period. Wonderland – The Joy of Analogue: Portraits from 1955-1995 is at Yorkton Studios until 19 October 2025
Photograph: Terry O’Neill/Iconic Images
David Byrne, New York,1982
This exhibition brings together a wide range of extraordinary and evocative portraits using an analogue camera as the medium of choice
Photograph: Chalkie Davies
Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clark Gable in the film The Misfits, 1960
The show will include giant polaroids and platinum and silver gelatin prints by some of the world’s leading artists, including Mary Ellen Mark, Sandra Lousada, Brian Griffin, David Bailey, Herb Ritts, John Claridge, Joel-Peter Witkin and Eve Arnold
Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos
Chet Baker, 1986
The exhibition highlights the technical and creative aspects of the medium in the production of the photographic print before the age of digitisation
Photograph: John Claridge
French painter Françoise Gilot, Rossetti Studios, Chelsea, 1967
Isabelle Doran, CEO, Association of Photographers, writes: ‘This eclectic mix of photographers have created powerful and evocative portraits that still resonate today with boldness, strength and intimacy, compelling us to wonder both about the photographer and the person as the subject’
Photograph: John Claridge
First communion, Brazil, 1981
‘These 47 photographers, all specialists across a myriad of photographic styles, have captured the multifaceted lives of people across four decades with clarity, purpose and an innate interest in storytelling’
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado
Lynn Chadwick for Tatler, 1961
‘The progression of camera technology over the decades has seen a transition from the early beginnings of daguerreotypes and calotypes, to various wet and dry plates, to roll film, 35mm and polaroid, to digital, with the mirrorless camera as the most recent addition to shooting with light’
Photograph: Sandra Lousada
Celia Hammond, 1962
From a series of seven illustrating the Seven Ages of Man’s View of Women from As You Like It by Shakespeare for Queen Magazine
Photograph: Sandra Lousada
Wilf Mannion, Middlesbrough and England football player, 1995
Photographer Craig Easton: ‘This image is from a project called Gentlemen and Players – they are portraits of former footballers and household names from a time when players travelled to matches in third-class carriages with the fans and most still played for their hometown clubs’
Photograph: Craig Easton
Carol and Pete Jolly, Jolly’s Mini Circus, Fishguard, 1974
Peter Lavery has been photographing behind the scenes across the UK for 50 years. His fascination is with the disparity between the glitz of the shows and the ordinariness backstage. See more here
Photograph: Peter Lavery
Ram Prakash Singh with his elephant Shyama, Great Golden Circus, Ahmedabad, India, 1990
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark: ‘This picture of the elephant and his trainer is one of my most well-known pictures from the Indian circus. It has a strong composition, with the trunk making a circle around the trainer. He had the elephant perform that for me (I think he was showing off)’
Photograph: Mary Ellen Mark
Photograph: Jane England
