The Photographers Gallery is the largest public gallery in London. It is dedicated to all styles of photography and have vast archives, historical to emerging talent.
The Gallery was founded in 1971 by Sue Davies and was the first gallery in the world to be dedicated in its entirety to photography. The gallery has exhibitions which are free to the public(although at times a small fee is now charged)
alongside talks and educational activities.
Photography was elevated within this gallery as an artistic and cultural leader whilst promoting its vital role as a social and historical document.
It was here that names such as Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Andreas Gurksey, Juergen Teller, Joel Sternfeld, Bill Brandt, MArtin Parr, Jo Spence, Nick Knight and Hannah Starkey were bought together and recognised as key players within the photography world.
In 1996, the prestigious annual international Photography Prize, sponsored by the Deutsche Borse Prize was founded by the Photographers Gallery with a prize pot of £30,000.
The Gallery is non profit, but allows the public to become a Patron for £1250 a year. This allows special privileges such as initiations to events with Artists/Collectors/Experts, visits to private collections, studios and auction houses and private curator tours of galleries and museums.
Within the building, they have a book shop which can also be accessed online and often sells signed additions of photobooks, alongside a coffee shop.
The London based Gallery leads the way in championing photography as vital, urgent art and says it is an invaluable means of interpreting and understanding our world around us.
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