Welcome to the world of Moriyama! ⁠ ⁠ Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective - the first UK retrospective exhibition of works by the acclaimed Japanese photographer is now open!⁠ ⁠ Taking over the entire gallery, the exhibition celebrates one of the most innovative and influential artists and street photographers of our day - tracing the path of Moriyama’s career as he transformed the way we see photography and questioned its very nature.⁠ ⁠ The retrospective will focus on different moments of Moriyama’s vast and productive career - beginning with his early works for Japanese magazines, interest in the American occupation, and engagement with photorealism. It was during this time Moriyama established his unique aesthetic, famously known by the Japanese phrase ‘are, bure, boke’ (meaning ‘grainy, blurry, out of focus’). ⁠ ⁠ The second part of the exhibition picks up his work from the self-reflexive period in the 1980s and 1990s. In the decades which followed, he explored the essence of photography and of his own self, developing a visual lyricism with which he reflected on reality, memory and cities through tireless documentation and the reinvention of his own archive. ⁠ ⁠ Immerse yourself in Moriyama’s world now at The Photographers’ Gallery - book your tickets online! Become a member today to get free unlimited entry to our exhibitions!⁠ ⁠ –⁠ ⁠ Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective is supported by @bagrifoundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, @DaiwaFoundation, @jpflondon⁠

COMPETITION TIME!⁠ ⁠ Submit your experimental film photographs for our social media photography competition in collab with @Pol_Roger⁠ and our @tpglab ⁠ To enter, share your special moments taken on film, use the hashtag #memorablemoments and tag us for a chance to win a magnum of Pol Roger champagne, a goody bag of film rolls from our shop and a pair of entry tickets to our exhibitions!⁠ ⁠ How to enter: ⁠ 1. Grab your analogue camera, some film and get shooting! All forms of analogue photography submissions are welcome - from 35mm to instant polaroid film. As long as it’s visually unique and it captures a moment that’s memorable to you, we want to see them! 🎞️⁠ ⁠ 2. Share your images on social media, by tagging us, @tpglab and @pol_roger and use the hashtag, #memorablemoments with a sentence or two that explains the context of the image, the film and the technique that you used to achieve the image.⁠ ⁠ ⏳️Deadline is Monday 16 October. Winner will be contacted shortly after the closing date!⁠ ⁠ With thanks to Pol Roger⁠

Join us tomorrow evening for the launch of the 2023 Photoworks Annual, #30 The Thing!⁠ ⁠ Inspired by Aimé Céaire’s formulation “colonisation = chosification”, Photoworks Annual #30 is themed The Thing, gathering 27 projects, this publication considers how the camera objectifies, and how image-makers have broached this.⁠ ⁠ The Thing is an intersectional project that includes works on⁠ the environment, colonialism, feminism, class, and gay and disability rights, suggesting a common interest against a commodifying gaze and a technology both shaped by and perpetuating it.⁠ ⁠ Event starts 18:30 with talks, drinks & plenty of magazines available on the night!

Join us in the gallery this Thursday for our artist talk on the subject of foreignness!⁠ ⁠ Taking its name from the current exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (@mmcasrilanka), this event brings artists Nina Mangalanyagam and Reginald S Aloysius in conversation with curators Sandev Handy and Sharmini Pereira. ⁠ ⁠ Sri Lankan and working throughout the diaspora, shared across their respective practices is an inquiry into notions of otherness, multiplicity, loneliness and home. Together, they will address the entangled subject of foreignness. ⁠ ⁠ Book your tickets now! Link in bio⁠

A reminder applications are currently open for our next in-person Photo Scratch @thephotographersgallery get your applications in soon, you have until the 20th October! We’re looking for work-in-progress documentary photography and photojournalism narratives, unpublished, well researched, deeply engaged, inquisitive, personal, illuminating - apply via link in our bio.

Documentary photographers – do you have some work-in-progress that you’d like to get feedback on?⁠ ⁠ We’re teaming up with @photo_scratch again for a session on Friday 10 November, 17.00 – 20.00. ⁠ ⁠ And the best thing, is there's no entry fee or cost to take part.⁠ ⁠ The application portal to take part is open until 17.00 on 20 October.⁠ ⁠ Visit our website to find out more via our 'what's on' page! Link in bio

Happy 85th birthday to Daido Moriyama! 🎂⁠ ⁠ Moriyama was born on this day in 1938, in Ikeda City, Osaka, Japan as Hiromichi Moriyama, eventually becoming one of the world’s most innovative and influential street photographers.⁠ ⁠ Immerse yourself in the world of Moriyama with our new exhibition, Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective – on display now until 11 February 2024, book tickets on our website now! ✨⁠ ⁠ Image: © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation

As summer turns to autumn and the nights grow longer, catch Gideon Mendel's film: Proof and Portents, projected outside in the Soho Photography Quarter every evening as part of his free, outdoor exhibition - Fire/Flood!⁠ ⁠ The exhibition showcases Mendel’s personal response to our climate crisis, through two of his ongoing photographic series: Drowning World and Burning World, documenting the shared human experience of climate catastrophe that transcends geographical, cultural and economic divides.⁠ ⁠ 📷 Kate Elliott

Join our next @tpgdevelop Talk with Jasmine Pierre @j_azz.p this Friday to find out more about photography/historical archives as a tool for storytelling, within exhibitions.⁠ ⁠ There will be an opportunity to ask questions and join group discussions.⁠ ⁠ Attendees will gain an understanding of:⁠ – what an archive is⁠ – how some archives have been used by creative practitioners⁠ – how some archives have been presented within exhibitions⁠ – the kinds of jobs available within archives⁠ ⁠ Head to our website to book your spot now, link in bio⁠ ⁠ (This event forms part of the Develop youth programme for 18-24 year olds!)⁠

Thanks goes out to Zhou HanShun @zhouhanshun who has been sharing images from his projects - Frenetic City and Fragrant Harbour for #TPGTakeovers this weekend!⁠ ⁠ Zhou HanShun is a photographer, artist and art director, from Singapore. His photography explores humanity, culture, and spirituality in urban spaces and the natural environment. HanShun often photographs with intuition and creates work with a sense of spontaneity. ⁠ ⁠ View more of Zhou's work at @zhouhanshun or at www.zhouhanshun.com

Hello, this is Zhou HanShun @zhouhanshun for #TPGTakeovers.⁠ ⁠ I am a Photographer, Artist, and Creative Director.⁠ ⁠ My photography explores humanity, culture, and spirituality in urban spaces and the natural environment. I often photograph with intuition and create work with a sense of spontaneity.⁠ ⁠ This series, titled “Frenetic City”, was one of the projects I undertook during my stay in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2017.⁠ ⁠ “To say life moves fast in a city is an understatement.⁠ People go through life at an uncompromising, chaotic pace,⁠ overcoming and absorbing anything in their path.⁠ Time in the city seems to flow quicker, and memories in the city⁠ tend to fade away faster.⁠ Nothing seems to stand still in a city.”⁠ ⁠ A UN report suggested that by 2050, the world's population would reach 10 billion, with three-quarters of humanity living in our already swelling cities. ⁠ ⁠ With a population of over 7 million but less than 25% of its land developed, it is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. When I first landed, I was immediately confronted by a society that was in fierce competition for physical and mental space.⁠ ⁠ I decided to capture and re-create the tension and chaos that I experienced in photographic form.⁠ ⁠ Created with multiple exposures on a single B&W negative, each of the photographs in this series is not of a singular moment in time, but a multitude of moments in time captured in a single frame.⁠

Hello, this is Zhou HanShun @zhouhanshun for #TPGTakeovers.⁠ ⁠ I am a Photographer, Artist, and Creative Director.⁠ ⁠ My photography explores humanity, culture, and spirituality in urban spaces and the natural environment. I often photograph with intuition and create work with a sense of spontaneity.⁠ ⁠ This series, titled “Frenetic City”, was one of the projects I undertook during my stay in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2017.⁠ ⁠ “To say life moves fast in a city is an understatement.⁠ People go through life at an uncompromising, chaotic pace,⁠ overcoming and absorbing anything in their path.⁠ Time in the city seems to flow quicker, and memories in the city⁠ tend to fade away faster.⁠ Nothing seems to stand still in a city.”⁠ ⁠ A UN report suggested that by 2050, the world's population would reach 10 billion, with three-quarters of humanity living in our already swelling cities. ⁠ ⁠ With a population of over 7 million but less than 25% of its land developed, it is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. When I first landed, I was immediately confronted by a society that was in fierce competition for physical and mental space.⁠ ⁠ I decided to capture and re-create the tension and chaos that I experienced in photographic form.⁠ ⁠ Created with multiple exposures on a single B&W negative, each of the photographs in this series is not of a singular moment in time, but a multitude of moments in time captured in a single frame.⁠