Photo London is an annual photography event held at Somerset House in London in May."Photo London". Somerset House. Accessed 9 February 2018. Galleries and publishers show and sell work by photographers, and there are curated exhibitions and talks. Awards are also given.
It was established in 2004 and ran until 2006 at the Royal Academy of Arts, then at Old Billingsgate in 2007, then stopped.Mark Westall, "photo-london". FAD, 4 April 2007. Accessed 9 February 2018. It was relaunched in 2015 and has since been held at Somerset House. That year, Photo London attracted 20,000 visitors, presenting 70 galleries from over 20 countries.
Details Photo London was established in 2004 by Daniel Newburg and held at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2004, 2005 and 2006."Photo-London: new owners, new venue, new content". Antiques Trade Gazette, 19 March 2007. 9 February 2018 In November 2006 it was purchased by Reed Exhibitions (who also owned Paris Photo). Reed ran it, with Newburg acting as creative director, in 2007 at Old Billingsgate and then stopped. Photo London was re-launched in 2015 by a company Candlestar, led by Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad."Directors". Photo London. Accessed 9 February 2018. It took place from 9 to 12 September 2021.
At Photo London, galleries and publishers show and sell work by photographers, and there are curated exhibitions and talks.
Awards The following awards are given as part of Photo London:"Awards 2017". Photo London. Accessed 9 February 2018. Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards La Fabrica Book Dummy Award Mack First Book Award Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award Photo London Master of Photography Award 2015: Sebastião Salgado 2016: Don McCullin 2017: Taryn Simon 2018: Edward Burtynsky 2019: Stephen Shore 2020/2021: Shirin Neshat 2022: Nick Knight 2023: Martin Parr Photo London Artproof Award
Simultaneous events Other photography events held at the same time in London include the Prix Pictet exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, the Peckham 24 photography festival in south-east London, and Offprint, an independent photobook publishers' fair at Tate Modern.
See also Brighton Photo Biennial Paris Photo
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