Photo Week rather than Photo Fair
Photo Week rather than Photo Fair
May 16, 2015
Sebastião Salgado, Figure Eight, Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986
© Sebastião Salgado / Amazonas Images, Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
During London Photo, Somerset House is presenting five principal exhibitions: Beneath the Surface from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, pictures from Sebastião Salgado's Genesis series unpublished till now, the Prostitute series by Iranian photographer Kaveh Golestan and, the open air installations The Teaser by Rut Blees Luxembourg and Cities by Sohei Nishino.
Curated by Professor Francis Hodgson, there will be a broad range of presentations and workshops taking place at different locations. Among the lecturers and presenters are Don McCullin, Sebastião Salgado, Susan Derges, Todd Hido, Mitch Epstein, Rineke Djkstra, Rankin and Stephen Shore.
At further exhibitions, the winners and finalists of numerous awards will be presented. These include the winners of the Photo London Master Awards, Magnum Photo's 30 under 30 competition, and the finalists of the LensCulture Awards.
Further information available at: Photo London
Sebastião Salgado, Figure Eight, Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986
© Sebastião Salgado / Amazonas Images, Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
Five principal exhibitions will be presented at Somerset House
© Marcus Ginns
Anja Niemi, The Chrysler, 2014
© Anja Niemi; The Little Black Gallery, London
Formento & Formento, Mai VI, from the "The Japan Diaries" series, 2014
© Formento & Formento; Robert Klein Gallery, Boston