SPECIAL EXHIBITION ‘LONDON LIVES’

Julia Fullerton Batten​, The Princess Alice Disaster of 1878​, c2020

Presented in both the Embankment East & West Galleries at Somerset House, the special exhibition ‘London Lives’ curated by critic and author Francis Hodgson features a dazzling array of creative responses to the City by around 30 of its leading image makers including David Bailey, James Barnor, Antony Cairns, Jamie Hawkesworth, Hannah Starkey, Es Devlin, Joy Gregory, Nadav Kander, Idris Khan, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Christian Marclay, Mary McCartney, Simon Roberts, Mitra Tabrizian and Nick Turpin. The exhibition also includes new commissions from Heather Agyepong, Jermaine Francis and Hannah Hughes, whose work will also be published exclusively in the FT Magazine as part of Photo London’s longstanding partnership with FT Weekend. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition is both an ode to London and the photography it has inspired.

Nick Turpin​, On the Night Bus, c2016

Curator of ‘London Lives’, Francis Hodgson, said: “For a few days in the spring of every year, Photo London has ruled over London from its great palace on the Thames. As we celebrate its tenth anniversary, we remember that is just the point. Photo London is not a virtual fair, anywhere. Its participants – photographers, publishers, galleries and the rest – come from all over the world and have turned their eyes on every part of it and all its goings-on. But it remains a London fair, anchored in its host city. So we thought for the anniversary we’d celebrate London and what people get up to there. London, like all the really great cities in the world, has something of everything, and people from everywhere. Call it a melting-pot if you want; but we simply call it ‘London Lives’. The more the merrier.”

List of ‘London Lives’ artists:
Heather Agyepong
Miles Aldridge
David Bailey
James Barnor
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Antony Cairns
Ed Clark
Susan Derges
Jermaine Francis
Julia Fullerton Batten
Lydia Goldblatt
Joy Gregory
Jamie Hawkesworth
Hannah Hughes
Tom Hunter
Nadav Kander
Idris Khan
Nick Knight
Karen Knorr
Chrystel Lebas
Tom Lovelace
Christian Marclay
Mary McCartney
Simon Roberts
Ewen Spencer
Hannah Starkey
Mitra Tabrizian
Alys Thomlinson
Nick Turpin