October 5, 2022
One of the best ways to gain inspiration for your photography and exploring different styles is by experiencing and viewing the work of other photographers and artists. We’ve put together a selection of the best exhibitions on around the UK during 2022 to see photography; including exhibitions that present photographs alongside other disciplines.
Below, you’ll find the information you need including dates, location and ticket details to plan your trips.
We will be updating this page with the latest information regularly, so be sure to check back!
Best Photography Exhibitions to see in 2022
- Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, Victoria and Albert Museum Dundee
- Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate: In Their Footsteps, Lewes high street
- Tyler MitchellChrysalis, Gagosian
- Chris Killip, retrospective, The Photographers’ Gallery
- Documentary, PhotoBath 44AD Artspace
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year, National Maritime Museum
- Taylor Wessing Photography Portrait Prize 2022, Cromwell Place
- Sony World Photography Awards, Open Eye Gallery
- Travel Photographer of the Year, Chester Cathedral
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58, Natural History Museum
- Bird Photographer of the Year 2022, TBC
- Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022
- Hannah Starkey, The Hepworth Wakefield
- FORMAT21: Control, online
- Landscape Photographer of the Year
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dundee
- On now until 6 November 2022
- Thursday – Monday 10am – 5pm
- Tickets: adults £20
- 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, Scotland DD1 4EZ
Opening March 2022, Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear will be the first major V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attitude and appearance. The show will trace how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries, and how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.
Fashioning Masculinities will present around 100 looks and 100 artworks, displayed thematically across three galleries. Contemporary looks by legendary designers and rising stars will be displayed alongside historical treasures from the V&A’s collections and landmark loans: classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, iconic photographs, and powerful film and performance.
Photography on display will include images by David Hockney, Lionel Wendt, Zanele Muholi and Isaac Julien.
In partnership with Gucci
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate: In Their Footsteps
Lewes High St
Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate: In Their Footsteps
- 29 September – 23 October 2022
- Exhibition maps available at the Lewes Tourist Information Centre, Lewes Town Hall, Edward Reeves Photography
(159 High Street) and many of the host shops and businesses. - Lewes High Street, Cliffe High Street & surrounding area
Lewes Town Hall: Building in Focus
- September 29 – October 15, 2022
- Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
- Baxter Corridor, Lewes Town Hall (High Street Entrance)
The Edward Reeves Archive in association with the Photography and the Archive Research Center at UAL
and Edward Reeves Photography present Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate: In Their Footstepsan exhibition of historic photographs of Lewes and its people displayed on lightboxes throughout the town center during September & October 2022.
The lightboxes will be unveiled and lit on Thursday 29th September and will be available to view until Sunday
23rd October.
A new exhibition for 2022 from the Edward Reeves Archive. A century of life in Lewes, showing townsfolk in the places they lived, worked, relaxed and celebrated. Walk in their footsteps. Displaying new unseen images from the Edward Reeves archive. Accompanying exhibition, Lewes Town Hall: Building in Focusexamines the crucial role of the building in town life.
Tyler MitchellChrysalis
Gagosian, London
- 6 October – 12 November 2022
- Open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm
- Free entry
- 17-19 Davies Street, London, W1K 3DE
Gagosian presents the first solo exhibition of works by Tyler Mitchell, and his first in London. Mitchell’s photographs and videos propose a utopian vision of Black beauty, desire, and belonging. For Chrysalis, he has produced photographs of youthful subjects in nature. Shot on location in upstate New York and in studios in New York and London in 2022, the images allude to the contemporary landscape while reflecting on the history of photographic images of Black people, particularly in the American South.
Tyler MitchellChrysalis
yler Mitchell, A Glint of Possibility, 2022, archival pigment print, 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm), edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Tyler Mitchell, image courtesy the artist; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; and Gagosian
Chris Killip, retrospective
The Photographers’ Gallery
- 7 October 2022 – 19 February 2023
- Monday-Wednesday and Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-6pm, Thursday and Friday 10am – 8pm.
- 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW
- Tickets: £8 / £5 Concession (Free for Members) – Advance Booking Online £6.50 / £4 Concession
Chris Killip’s continued efforts to value and document the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England, throughout the 1970s and 80s, have made him one of the most influential figures of British Photography.
This retrospective exhibition of more than 140 works, serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer’s work to date and includes previously unseen ephemera and color works.
Chris Killip, retrospective
documentary
PhotoBath, 44AD Artspace
- 1 – 6 November 2022
- Open daily 10am – 5pm
- Free entry
- 4 Abbey Street, Bath, BA1 1NN
PhotoBath, a network of photographers, returns – after a three year break – with the exhibition, ‘Documentary’. The exhibition features the work of ten photographers, including Chris Roche, Hannah Mentz, Chris Niedenthal and Matt Stuart.
Photo Bath exhibition of Documentary Photography
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 14
National Maritime Museum, London
- On now until 13 August 2023
- Open daily 10am – 5pm
- Tickets: £10 adults, £6.50 concessions
- Park Row, London, England SE10 9NF
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual exhibition showcasing the world’s greatest space photography.
The exhibition at the National Maritime Museum will feature over 100 photographs including this year’s winning images alongside a series of shortlisted photographs on brilliant lightbox displays.
Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
Disconnection Event © Gerald Rhemann. Planets, Comets & Asteroids Winner and Overall Winner 2022. Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm, Khomas, Namibia, 25 December 2021
Taylor Wessing Photography Portrait Prize 2022
Cromwell Place, London
The prize-winning photographs and those selected for inclusion in the exhibition were chosen from 4,462 submissions entered by 1,697 photographers from 62 countries. A total of 51 portraits from 36 artists have been selected for display in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 exhibition.
Tickets will be available to purchase at npg.org.uk from 22 August 2022.
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022
Sony World Photography Awards
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
- 10 November – 11 December 2022
- Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 4pm
- 19 Man Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1BP
See full exhibition tour details: 2022 Sony World Photography Awards Traveling Exhibition
Doris Maria Lara Caballero, age 31, is a migrant from Department Cortés, Honduras. She takes a portrait of herself at the Enrique Romero Municipal Gymnasium in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico on April 30, 2021. Series Name: Migrantes. © Adam Ferguson, Australia, Photographer of the Year, Professional, Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
Travel Photographer of the Year
Chester Cathedral, Chester
- 2nd – 27th October 2022
- 9am Monday to Saturday and at 11.30am Sundays. The Cathedral closes at 5pm Monday to Saturday and at 4pm Sundays.
- 9 Abbey Square, Chester, England CH1 2HU
An exhibition of selected winning images from the TPOTY awards will be traveling to Chester Cathedral.
TPOTY at Chester Cathedral
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58
- 14 October 2022 – 2 July 2023
- Monday – Sunday, 10am-5:50pm
- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
- Tickets: from £17
Discover the natural world in all its wonder and diversity at the newly redesigned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, where 100 remarkable photographs illustrate the precious beauty of our planet. We have been given a sneak peek of the shortlisted photographs that hope to win the grand title prize.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58 exhibition
© Laurent Ballesta, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021
Bird Photographer of the Year 2022
- Sep 2022 – Aug 2023
An exhibition of 70-80 of the winning images will go on an international tour.
Dates and venues to be confirmed, more information soon.
Bird Photographer of the Year
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022
RPS Gallery, Bristol
- 20 November – 12 December 2022
- The Royal Photographic Society, RPS House, 337 Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3AR.
- Free
Exhibition of the 2022 finalists – More information soon
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Kebabiyana. © Debdatta Chakraborty/Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022
Hannah Starkey
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, Yorkshire
- 20 October 2022 – 30 April 2023
- Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm
- Tickets: £10-12, FREE for Members
- Gallery Walk, Wakefield, England WF1 5AW
The Hepworth Wakefield will present the first major survey of British photographer Hannah Starkey, tracing the development of her work across two decades. Throughout her career, Starkey’s meticulously choreographed photographs have determinedly engaged with how women are represented in contemporary culture, an issue which is now center stage.
On display will be photographs from Starkey’s graduation show in 1997 that immediately brought her widespread acclaim, through to a newly commissioned body of work that will be created with young women in Wakefield in 2022.
Hannah Starkey at The Hepworth Wakefield
Hannah Starkey, Untitled, May 1997, 1997 framed c-type print mounted on aluminum 122 x 162 cm © Hannah Starkey. Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London.
FORMAT21: control
Format International Photography Festival, Online
- On now online until March 2023
FORMAT in collaboration with New Art City have presented the 2021 international photography festival online in a purpose-built multi-player virtual gallery space.
The exhibitions split across 20 galleries includes over 160 international artists and a selection of the 40,000 images submitted from over 90 countries from the #massisolationFORMAT archive created during the Covid-19 pandemic.
format festival
Landscape Photographer of the Year
- October 31, 2022 – April 21, 2023
Landscape Photographer of the Year celebrates the wonder of the British landscape and showcases the work of many talented photographers.
Tour locations and full details to be announced.
Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition
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