PhotoMonth 2026 Exhibitions

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Rocket's 15th solo show of works by the late Martin Parr

25 September – 31 October 2026 

Rocket Gallery

Unit 6B, 4-6 Sheep Ln, 

London E8 4QS

Photographed in the height of the Thatcher era, between 1983 and 1985, in New Brighton, Merseyside, The Last Resort remains one of the defining bodies of work in contemporary photography. Parr’s shift into colour photography marked a significant shift in British documentary photography, particularly for his use of direct flash and saturated colour. Focusing on historical Fujicolour C-type photographs printed from the original negatives, this exhibition presents the series in its original photographic form for the first time in decades.      

PV: Thursday 24 September 6 - 8 pm

Open: Thurs/Fri/Sat 2 - 6 pm

A post-lockdown group portrait in the analogue photobooth

1 – 11 October 2026

Museum of Youth Culture

100 Royal College Street, 

London NW1 0TH

Created in 2021 and 2022, Together-Apart captures a moment when student life was gradually returning to campus after the isolation of the pandemic. At Goldsmiths School of Design, students came together through an analogue photobooth to create a collective portrait. Because the booth could only be used in person, the photographs became records of returning to campus, reconnecting and being together again.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a book bringing together stories, memories and recollections from this period. The publication reflects on the importance of community to creative work and everyday life, preserving the experiences and connections behind the photographs.

Book Launch: Thursday 1 October 6 – 9 pm

Open: Wed – Sun 11 am - 6 pm

Violeta Sofia

1 – 30 October 2026

Winston Taylor head office

5 New Street Square

London EC4A 3TW

Violeta Sofia’s work brings the tradition of floral still-life into a contemporary photographic language. 

Historically, many still-life paintings brought together flowers that could never have bloomed at the same time, creating imagined arrangements that existed beyond a single season or moment. Violeta draws on this tradition through theatrical photographs that combine photography and painting. Blurring the boundaries between still life and portraiture, her compositions bring together elaborate floral arrangements, richly textured fabrics, artifacts and saturated colour. Influenced by the visual language of Old Master painting while firmly rooted in the present, the works explore transformation, self-acceptance and the ways different cultural references can coexist within a single image.

Curated by Ryan Monro.

Open: Mon - Fri 10 am to 5 pm by appointment with the artist

Audrey Ni Ruorong

Iris Jingyi Zeng

Xinyu Huang

2 – 4 October 2026

Photobook Café

4 Leonard Circus,

London EC2A 4DQ

As the world around us continues to change, how do we understand where we belong? Through photography, three artists explore the ways we navigate our relationship with place, landscape and ourselves. Moving between reconstructed spaces, repeated journeys through forests and the experience of the individual as a wilderness, the works consider how our sense of place is shaped not only by the environments we inhabit, but also by perception, memory and lived experience. Together, they invite audiences to reconsider the ways we locate ourselves in an ever-changing world.

Curated by Alice Luo (Ya-Hsin).

PV: Friday 2 October 6 - 9 pm

Open: Friday 2 October 6 - 10:30 pm

Saturday 3 October 10 am - 10 pm

Sunday 4 October 10 am - 2 pm

Sue Parkhill

2 – 24 October 2026 

Brady Art Center

192-196 Hanbury Street,

London E1 5HU

A blend of memories, fragmented thoughts, and sensory details, Travels with my Aunt Adele presents a visual, meandering retelling of photographer Sue Parkhill’s journey around Ireland alongside her beloved travel companion, Adele. The photographs in this series function as a form of storytelling, paying homage to the artist’s familial history in Ireland, the country’s folklore traditions, as well as Aunt Adele’s status as a lifelong educator, reader and storyteller.

Open: Mon - Fri 9 am - 7 pm, Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

3 October 2026 – 28 March 2027 

William Morris Gallery

Lloyd Park, Forest Rd,

London E17 4P

Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK is a major touring exhibition that explores the people and places that have helped shape art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, Earthly Paradise highlights individuals and communities that defied contemporary conventions and the homes they created to explore their new visions of society. The exhibition considers the role that money and class have played in providing access to these spaces and the freedom to challenge social norms. It traces the roles activist groups and those excluded from and overlooked by mainstream society have played in imagining new ways of living and seeing the world.

Open: Tue - Sun 10 am - 5 pm

Barry Lewis

5 October - TBD 2026 

The Source

Theatre Square,

London E15 1BX

Raised in London, seaside holiday photographer Barry Lewis describes his family trips to the south coast as some of his earliest memories: "miles of sandy beaches with donkey rides, 3 piers, a huge fun-fair, a mile-long promenade full of fortune-tellers, pubs, fish-and-chip shops, and the famous illuminations."

This project captures the epitome of the British at play, where everyone’s guard is down and pleasure is ruthlessly pursued. Holidays on the south coast are for letting your hair down, letting go, falling in love, meeting new people and trying new experiences in a safe setting. There is the “otherness” of the miles of sand and empty sky where everyone is a stranger, and for that short time, both marauding seagulls and photographers are accepted and even enjoyed, especially after a drink!

Open: Mon - Fri 9 am - 8 pm, Saturday 10 am - 6 pm

Steve Ferrier

A visual document to the Giant Redwood family living and breathing throughout London

14 October – 1 November 2026

Redwood Cafe

Swan Lane Open Space, Whetstone

London N20 0PR

Sequoia City will show these trees that are so emblematic of the American west coast are living amongst us, not just in parks, but on urban streets and across the outer suburbs.

Using work from two recent projects, Sequoia Street - a study of the giant redwoods of Canon’s Drive in Edgeware, and 18 Holes to Fill: Whitewebbs - a study of the rewilding of a public golf course (this park was very recently saved by judicial appeal against Tottenham Hotspur’s planning proposal). If successful the exhibition will be added to with new work showing redwoods on our streets and housing estates.

Open: Wed - Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm

Curated by Mark Sealy and Bindi Vora. 

8 October 2026 – 13 February 2027

Autograph

1 Rivington Pl,

London EC2A 3BA

Our Bodies Have Been Bridges brings together the work of three feminist artists from across the Americas whose work centres the body. 

Laura Aguilar, Tarrah Krajnak, and Koyoltzintli each use their body to bridge personal and collective memory, indigenous knowledge, and relationships to the land in their own distinct ways.

Together, their work forms an intergenerational conversation about how the past is carried through the body. Photography becomes an act of resistance – insisting that the politics of the body cannot be separated from the politics of the image.

PV: Wedesnday, 7 October 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Open: Wed/Fri 11 am - 6 pm

Thursday 11 am - 9 pm

Saturday 12:30 pm - 6 pm

9 – 18 October 2026

Gallery 46

46 Ashfield Street,

London E1 2AJ

Solo exhibition presenting a decade of Lou Melchior’s photography, bringing together images that oscillate between the familiar and the unknowable. Melchior captures the incidental overlooked object, the passing shadow, and the fragment of everyday life, and quietly turns them against themselves revealing a world at once intimate elusive and faintly absurd. The Van the Sock and the Shadows invites us to reconsider what we believe we recognise and to consider the strange solitude that lies within our shared experience.

PV: Thursday 8 October 6 – 9:30 pm

Open: Tue – Fri 12 - 6 pm, Sat and Sun  1 pm – 6 pm

Amanda Eatwell

13 - 31 October 2026 

Vintiners Framers

24 Crouch End Hill,

London N8 8AA

Amanda Eatwell observes her mother as the conduit to communicate ideas about the various stages of a female’s life, combining new photographs, selections from her family album, and interviews with her mother, alongside factual data about the lived experiences of women. The artist additionally incorporates paraphernalia and personal items in the gallery to curate a distinctly "feminine space", highlighting the meaningful emotional ties that form in association with objects in the home.  

Open: Mon - Sat 9:30 am - 5 pm

14 October 2026 - 21 February 2027

The Photographers' Gallery

16-18 Ramillies St,

London W1F 7LW

Largely unseen, Colour Years will present Sanlé Sory’s colour photography for the first time in the UK. One of West Africa’s most prolific photographers, Sory took more than a million portraits over seven decades, showing the profound social and political changes in Burkina Faso.

Better known for his black-and-white studio photography of the 1960s and 70s, Colour Years captures a more recent and lesser-known chapter of the artist's career, presenting meticulously restored colour prints from his archive alongside Volta Jazz record covers featuring his portraits of the influential bands that flourished after Burkina Faso’s independence.

Colour Years reveals a dynamic portrait of a rapidly changing community and society in Burkina Faso across decades of political shifts, global exchange and self-expression through fashion, music and attitude.  

Curated by Taous Dahmani.

Open: Mon – Wed & Saturday 10:30 am – 6 pm

Thu – Fri 10:30 am – 8 pm

Sunday 11 am – 6 pm

14 October 2026 - 21 February 2027

The Photographers' Gallery

16-18 Ramillies St,

London W1F 7LW

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of William Eggleston's landmark exhibition and book William Eggleston's Guide (1976), this major exhibition will look at Eggleston's legacy, influence and 60-year career.

A pioneer of colour photography, Eggleston is renowned

for combining everyday observation with an intuitive sense of colour and composition. All That Goes Unnoticed brings together many of his iconic works, alongside lesser-known images. Declaring himself as ‘at war with the obvious’, Eggleston’s democratic way of seeing redefined colour photography and transformed how the ordinary could be represented.

 These classic photographs expose the underlying cracks of the American Dream – alienation, loneliness, desire – simultaneously seductive and lurid, tense and revealing. Seen today, 50 years after their original publication, in a time when images are constantly produced and circulated, Eggleston’s photographs offer a slower, more attentive way of looking. A way of making the ordinary extraordinary.

Open: Mon – Wed & Saturday 10:30 am – 6 pm

Thu – Fri 10:30 am – 8 pm

Sunday 11 am – 6 pm

14 - 25 October 2026

Arts Pavilion at Mile End Park

Clinton Rd, Bow, 

London E3 4QY

This year's PhotoMonth Open Call Exhibition, Unity and Community, brings together photographs by 21 artists from all around the world, and is a response to drastic regression toward division and discrimination seen in cities all across the globe and, significantly, London. Photograph Arts believes that London's greatest strengths as a cultural and artistic hub is the creation and preservation of community by all people that find a home here. Given that PhotoMonth was founded on the belief that photography is for all, we aim to uphold these values and represent diverse communities and perspectives, reflecting the divergent cultures, practices, and people that make up the city.

This exhibition is produced by Photograph Arts and curated by Ishy Pryce-Parchment, Tom Hunter, Cherelle Sappleton, and Leah Mclaine.

Participating artists:

Alex Robertson • Corinne Quinn • David Boulogne • Heun Jung Kim • Igor Zelenov • Iyesogie Ogieriakhi • Jeremy Skirrow • John Hartley • Julio Etchart • Kevin You • Lia Cordery •  Mamu Unu • Megan Taylor • Nahwand Jaff • Neil Martinson • Ravi Madan • Tarlan Lotfizadeh • Tianqiutao Chen

PV: Thursday 15 October 6 – 9 pm

Open: Everyday 11 am – 5 pm

Portfolio Reviews: Saturday 24 October

Jenny Lewis

16 October – 16 November 2026

Autofoto Studio

39 Gransden Ave,

London E8 3QA

This is the latest iteration of artist Jenny Lewis’ Mutinous Bodies project, reflecting on the experience of autoimmune diseases by using photography to uncover what's often hidden from view. Since January 2025, Lewis has invited people to talk about their lived experiences, and use the intimate space of the photobooth to confront themselves. She then translated a series of these portraits into photopolymer etchings, playing with time-based work and expanding the language of photography to hold the emotional weight of disrupted lives. A selection of these works are on display across the windows of the Autofoto Studio.

Set within the set space of the Autofoto workshop, The Workshop Show is an invitation to untangle and share the burden of chronic illness, using an Autofoto analogue photobooth. The mechanical and analogue processes of this machine are perfect collaborators, arbitrarily glitching and malfunctioning; reflecting the unreliable bodies inside. The resulting portrait strips will then be annotated to reveal family histories of hereditary conditions, increasing visibility, and deepening public understanding of invisible illnesses. Lewis encourages participants to add their portraits and experiences to this evolving body of work.

Jenny will be running four workshops:

16 /17th October 1-6pm and

6/7th November 1-6pm

Access the RSVP link on our 'Events' page, or just show up

PV: Friday 16 October 6 - 8:30 pm

Open: On workshop days

And always visible in AUTOFOTO's window

A collaborative heritage project between photographers and curators Andrew Saunders and Garry Hunter.

17 - 27 October 2026 

SS Robin pontoon, Trinity Buoy Wharf

64 Orchard Pl,

London E14 OJW

As the first tranche of a longterm research and outreach programme, Náutica unearths a small selection of the 80 million analogue images stored in the Getty Archive by the Lower Lea in east London where only 2% of this historical collection has so far been digitised.

Exhibited within the vast pontoon that supports the Victorian steamship SS Robin - the only vessel of its class still fully intact - this investigation reveals documentation of shipbuilding on the River Lea in the latter half of the 19th century, right where Robin was built, here in 1889-90. As this project develops, more long-unseen imagery of other key shipbuilding sites will emerge, as well as the European ports Robin visited.

Open: 17 - 18 and 26 - 27 October 11 am - 5 pm. Other times may be booked by appointment: home@fitzrovianoir.com

Mariia Antipina

22 - 25 October 2026 

Hackney Gallery 

1 Lower Clapton Rd,

London E5

Symbiosis is about how, when we find our true person, it is not the kind of love written about in books. Antipina writes: "All my life, I believed that the love shown in books and movies didn't exist. [...] It was always intense, fast, and incredibly exhausting, and at some point, I decided that love just wasn't for me." But after meeting her husband, Antipina realized that real love does exist and is different than what we are presented with in the media. 

This photo series demonstrates the artist's newfound understanding of love following psychological trauma experienced in romantic relationships. Her work presents love as a healthy union: two people walking through life hand in hand, accepting each other’s flaws and virtues—a demonstration of two adults in symbiosis who feel whole both together and apart.

PV: Thursday 22 October 7 - 9:30 pm

Open: 23 - 25 October 12 - 6 pm

Curated by Marisa Bellani

23 October – 11 December 2026

Beyond Studio

69 Roman Road,

London E2 0QN

Beyond Studio is proud to present OMOETHERIA, the first ever exhibition by Alexios Seilopoulos. The Greek photographer and video artist gives us his version of Athens through his writing, photographs and a film shot between 2024 and 2026, as the first installment of a larger film and research-based project about homecoming.

OMOETHERIA is a commentary born from the artist’s experience of returning to a country he no longer recognised. Having left Greece at eighteen to live in London and returned twenty years later, the work reflects on the profound transformations that have reshaped both the city and the lives of its queer community. The title refers to a homoerotic culture that increasingly exists only in the ether as Athens’ urban landscape changes, with spaces of gathering and belonging disappearing under the pressures of financialisation and homogenisation.

PV: Friday 23 October 7 - 9 pm

Open: Thursday and Friday 10 am - 6 pm

Sat - Wed by appointment

Works by Chandni Raithatha, Demelza Okwan, Jasmine Sandhu, Tati El Mallah and Soumia Sadoun

28 October 2026 only 

Photobook Café

4 Leonard Circus,

London EC2A 4DQ

From Home to Home is a collective photographic publication created as part of The Photographers’ Gallery Develop Programme. The project is now being developed into an exhibition, bringing together the photographic works, conversations, and personal narratives from the publication within a shared physical space.

The publication explores the experiences of five young women from different diasporic backgrounds living in London. Through personal reflections, the artists consider how migration, family histories, and cultural connections shape ideas of home and belonging. Their individual stories are situated within the wider communities shaped by migration that make up one of the most diverse cities in the world, exploring both the intimacy of physical homes and the emotional spaces where a sense of belonging is created.

Rather than approaching diaspora solely as a subject of study, From Home to Home presents it as a lived experience shaped by movement, memory, relationships, and inherited histories. Through personal archives, contemporary photographic practices, and storytelling, the project explores how experiences of migration are carried across generations, and how ideas of home are continually formed, challenged, and reimagined.

Open: 6pm