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London Photography Exhibitions this week include Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi, a new exhibition at the V&A and Human Rights, Human Wrongs at the Photographers’ Gallery. Anja Niemi’s exhibition at the The Little Black Gallery in Chelsea in which the Norwegian photographer explores identity is worth a look this weekend. There’s also a newly opened, small exhibition at the V&A (not too long a walk from the Little Black Gallery) on the Black British Experience. Also worth a look is the Black and White photojournalism exhibition, Human Rights, at the Photographer’s Gallery, close to Oxford Circus, which opened at the start of February. Amongst free admission London Photography Exhibitions is the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich which ends this weekend.

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Anja Niemi: Darlene & Me

Free admission.
Anja Niemi, one of the most compelling contemporary artists of our time explores split personalities in her series on show at The Little Black Gallery. For Anja’s third exhibition at the gallery, she inhabits a house in the Californian dessert and takes on the persona of fictional character Darlene to explore identity. Norweigen Arts describe how Anja aims for “absolute control” enjoying the roles of subject, director and photographer.

Anja Niemi website: www.anjaniemiphotography.com

Free admission.
Where: The Little Black Gallery.
Ends: Tuesday, 10th March, 2015.
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Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience

Free admission.
This display features images from the Victoria and Albert museum archive, and, show cases photographic responses the the Black British Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s in Britain. The images are joined by oral commentary provided by the Black Cultural Archives which aims to raise awareness of the contribution of black Britons to British culture, society, and the art of photography.
Free admission.
Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 24th May, 2015.
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More information: V&A Museum.

Human Rights Human Wrongs

This photojournalism exhibition showcases an overwhelming 300 black and white images from the Black Start agency, spanning 50 years of international history. The exhibition is remarkable: intense, informative, historically significant and often harrowing according to the Evening Standard.”Moving around the gallery is like leaping in a disorientating way across time and space” Disphotic.

Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Monday, 6th April, 2015.
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More information: The Photographers’ Gallery.

Guy Bourdin – Walking Legs

Free admission.
Michael Hoppen Gallery is a gallery in Chelsea which shows contemporary as well as classic photography. The latest exhibition opens on Friday 6th February and focusses on Bourdin’s 1979 campaign for Charles Jourdan. Bourdin had a long collaboration with the shoe fashion house and typical to Bourdin’s style, the feature of the campaign was not the Charles Jourdan shoes, but a pair of walking legs shot around England. If you like this exhibition then you definitely also visit “Image Maker” at Somerset house, mentioned below.
Free admission.
Where: Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 28th March, 2015.
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More information: Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Building Images: The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Prize

Free admission.
Building Images is an exhibition exploring four architectural themes: Building in use, Exteriors, Interiors and Sense of place and features the work of 14 of the world’s most renowned architectural photographers. The exhibition at Sto Werkstatt, in Clerkenwell, features winning images from The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2014. The awards aim to reward the creativity of the photographer.

Free admission.
Where: Sto Werkstatt.
Ends: Saturday, 28th February, 2015.
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Guy Bourdin: Image Maker

Guy Bourdin, the French, Fashion Photographer was known for his startling and provocative images which, unconventionally for fashion, told a story, giving the clothes themselves a secondary role. Like his contemporary Helmut Newton, Bourdin worked for Vogue. The two complemented each other according to Bourdin: “Between him and me the magazine became pretty irresistible in many ways… if he had been alone or I had been alone it wouldn’t have worked.” As well as Vogue, Bourdin worked for Harper’s Bazaar and shot campaigns for Chanel, Issey Miyake and Gianni Versace. He is said to be an influence for modern fashion photography icons including Nick Knight and Tim Walker.
This exhibition features over 100 works from the compositional image-maker and is the largest ever exhibition of the influential photographer, charting his career from protege of Man Ray to photography revolutionary in his own right.

Where: Somerset House.
Ends: Sunday, 15th March, 2015.
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Bryan Adams: Wounded – The Legacy of War

Free Admission.
Wounded is a compilation of over 30 photographs by Bryan Adams, more commonly known as the singer who performed the power ballad which spent 16 weeks at the top of the UK charts. The photographs are portraits of young British servicemen and servicewomen who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Wounded: The Legacy of War published by Steidl, priced at £50 with proceeds from the book going to veteran support charities BLESMA, Blind Veterans UK, Combat Stress and SSAFA, and War Child. It features images of 40 veteran soldiers taken by Adams, accompanied by each soldier’s personal story.

Free admission.
Where: Somerset House.
Ends: Sunday, 25th January, 2015.
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More information: Somerset House.

Drawn by Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection

Drawn by light is a collection of “some of the greatest photographs taken by some of the greatest photographers who ever lived” according to Colin Harding, a curator at the National Media Museum. The Royal Photographic Society archive consists of over 250,00 images, making it one of the most important and comprehensive photographic collections globally. This exhibition brings together over 200 highlights form the collection ranging from with work of early photography pioneers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and William Henry Fox Talbot to modern day giants such as Martin Parr and Terry O’Neill.

Where: The Science Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 1st March, 2015.
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More information: The Science Museum.

Conflict, Time, Photography

Conflict, Time, Photography focuses on conflicts over the last 150 years, since the invention of photography. The exhibition is moving, including photographs of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud as well as more recent images from conflicts in Afghanistan. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.

Where: Tate Modern.
Ends: Sunday, 21st June, 2015.
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Last weekend
Free Admission.
An exhibition of the winning images from around the world for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition. Features solar eclipses, aurorae, nebulae and much, much more.

Free admission.
Where: Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Ends: Sunday, 22nd February, 2015.
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More information: Royal Observatory Greenwich.

That’s it for this week’s London Photography Exhibitions, more to come next week!

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