Photo London 2016
Fair: 19 May – 22 May 2016
Wed 18 May
Photo London
Somerset House - The Strand
WC2R 1LA London
+44-(0)20 7759 1170
info@photolondon.org
photolondon.org
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Photo London brings together 80 of the world’s leading galleries in a major international photography Fair, combined with an innovative public programme supported by the LUMA Foundation.
Photo London 2016 is proud to be sponsored by the Pictet Group.
Photo London is located in the heart of the city and benefits from the support of London’s best photographers. Click here to watch these photographers discuss their love of photography, and why London is an important cultural hub for photography, in a special video for Photo London.
The legendary war photographer, Don McCullin was named today as the Photo London Master of Photography 2016. He will be the subject of a special exhibition of his work at Somerset House, presented by Photo London in association with Hamiltons Gallery. Photo London will also present a rare opportunity to meet Don McCullin in a public conversation at Somerset House with Tate Photography Curator, Simon Baker on Thursday 19 th May.
As one of a series of Photo London special commissions, two acclaimed young stars of the London art scene, Walter & Zoniel:, will transform the eery underground spaces of The Deadhouse at Somerset House into a giant camera to take the largest ever Ambrotype portrait as a live ‘happening’ for the opening night of Photo London.
Photography collector and James Bond producer, Michael Wilson OBE, will lend a series of 12 large - scale photographic works by the English artist, Craigie Horsfield , for an exhibition in the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House, drawn from his encyclopaedic personal collection of over 11,000 photogra phs. The first time that the Wilson Centre has loaned work to an art fair.
The celebrated Moscow Multimedia Art Museum (formerly Moscow House of Photography) is the only museum in Russia to have a specialised programme of festivals and projects. Olga Sviblova, its Director, will curate a special exhibition for Photo London Sergey Chilikov: Photoprovocations at Somerset House of contemporary Russian photography.