Tim Walker: Story Teller

18 October 2012 - 27 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission Somerset House, East Wing Galleries, East Wing Strand, London, WC2R 1LA Tim Walker is one of the most visually exciting and influential fashion photographers working today. Extravagant in scale and ambition and instantly recognisable for their eye-opening originality, Walkers photographs dazzle with life, colour and humour. His recent work is drawn from the pages of the worlds leading magazines: British, French, American and Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, W and The New Yorker among many others. Walkers photographs provide the focus of the exhibition, but the camera, he claims, is simply a box put between you and what you want to capture. Everything in Walkers pictures is specially constructed and in a glimpse behind the mechanics, there are installations and a selection of the extraordinary props and models on show: giant grotesque dolls for Italian Vogue and an almost life-size replica of a doomed Spitfire fighter plane. The photo shoot begins to resemble the film set: hair and make-up artists, fashion stylists and costume fitters, model makers, set designers, builders, producers and painters, prop suppliers and a cast of models playing out imagined roles. At the centre is Walker harnessing creative and technical talents to conjure up the harmonious whole in a singular picture.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour

8 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission Somerset House, Terrace Rooms & Courtyard Rooms, South Wing Strand, London, WC2R 1LA It is well-known that Cartier-Bresson was disparaging towards colour photography, which in the 1950s was in its early years of development; his reasoning was based both on the technical and aesthetic limitations of the medium at the time.

Featuring 10 Cartier-Bresson photographs never before exhibited in the UK alongside over 75 works by 14 international acclaimed photographers, this extensive showcase will illustrate how photographers working in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the master's ethos famously known as the decisive moment' to their work in colour. Though they often departed from the concept in significant ways, something of that challenge remained: how to seize something that happens and capture it in the very moment that it takes place.

Domingo Milella
23 November 2012 - 26 January 2013, Monday-Friday 10.00-19.00, Saturday 11.00-17.00, Free admission Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery 43-44 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4JJ Domingo Milella's solo exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, his first in the UK, features new images of important ancient sites in the Mediterranean, where remnants of power, culture, life and death are captured. Over the last ten years, Milella's subjects have been cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs - in short, signs of man's presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilization and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. The exhibition will also include Milella's Index, a compendium of 30 of the most evocative images from his last decade of work, presented as a visual sequence of the themes and subjects that constitute his vision and quest. Milella has said of his work, "Making images doesn't only mean documenting or taking photographs. It's also a possibility for contemplation and recollection. Building an image of the past is to face the present, and activate the possibility of the future."

Jonas Mekas
5 December 2012 - 27 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA

Film-maker, artist and poet Jonas Mekas is a leading figure of avant-garde and independent cinema. The exhibition presents the artist's film, video and photographic works from throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career. On his arrival in New York in 1949, Mekas bought his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of the world around him. He quickly became a central figure in the burgeoning arts community, alongside friends and collaborators such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and film-makers Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren. Mekas brings a poet's sensibility to the diary film style that permeates his work. His vision is unique in its ability to capture personal moments of beauty, celebration and joy. Developing his diaristic film style in the 1960s, he has become best known for his 'film diaries' in which he recorded, with great sensitivity, his day-to-day activities as well as those of his peers from the film and arts community in New York.

Floris Neusss: Ancient and Modern

8 November 2012 - 12 January 2013, Monday-Friday 10.00-18.00, Saturday 11.00-17.00, Free admission Atlas Gallery 49 Dorset Street, London, W1U 7NF Over the past ten years cameras have become an increasingly inherent part of our everyday lives, and increasingly digitized. From starting your morning using your iPhone to take an instagram of that cup of coffee and snapping yourself in various outfits in the mirror, to a multitude of mirror forms thanks to apps like Photobooth, everywhere we go we are bombarded with photography: its an all-seeing, all-watching world. Yet Floris Neusss and his photogram works offer a refreshingly alternative exploration into the medium. By no means a unique or particularly innovative process (for our time at least), Neusss use of the photogram has produced works that continue to re-awaken the wonders of the method of photography how it used to be made.

Susan Derges: Alder Brook

9 November 2012 - 19 January 2013, Monday-Friday 10.00-18.00, Saturday 11.00-18.00, Free admission Purdy Hicks Gallery 65 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9GZ

A small brook on Dartmoor, Devon near the artists studio is the focus for this new series of images. Two different views of the brooks surface, from above and below, explore themes of reflection and immersion that echo experiences of place as a site of memory and loss, the flow of time and changing perceptions..This flux of internal experience in contact with a changing external landscape is captured in over twenty photographs that are ravishingly beautiful yet unsettling. .The viewer is destabilised and disoriented by images of water, crossings, bridges and gates that could be familiar everyday encounters but are not quite what they seem. Reflections falling onto the waters surface, views from its underside, shadows thrown across the undulating ripples of the brook all give rise to an experience similar to that of the dream state and at the same time question the apparent solidity of our perceptions.

Keith Arnatt: Works 1967-1996

23 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, Wednesday-Sunday 11.00-18.00, Free admission Maureen Paley Gallery, 21 Herald Street, London, E2 6JT To highlight Arnatts conceptual approach, this survey combines texts, sculptural installation and photographically realised works as well as photographs. Early pieces from the 1960s in the form of artists prints are set alongside text pieces and a floor-based sculpture created in accordance with

Arnatts instruction. The work KEITH ARNATT IS AN ARTIST questions the role of the artist as a whole. Arnatt was also interested in expanding the meaning and function of an artwork in terms of its relationship to the discrete acts of bringing a work into being. Later groups of photographs such as Walking the Dog and The Forest from the 1970s and 80s reveal Arnatts analytic method of working and emphasise the point at which he adopted the camera as his primary tool for producing art rather than documenting it. Series from this period use an observational style influenced by Arnatts awareness of the typological preoccupations of artists and photographers as diverse as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Robert Adams.

Group-Show: Finders Keepers

12 December 2012 - 31 January 2013, Monday-Friday 10.30-18.00, Saturday 10.30-17.00, Free admission Michael Hoppen Gallery 3 Jubilee Place, London, SW3 3TD To celebrate the gallerys 20 years, Michael Hoppen unveils the treasures of his extraordinary private photography collection in the gallerys largest public exhibition to date. Presented over three floors, Finders Keepers offers a unique journey through hundreds of captivating photographs, full of beautiful and bizarre stories that reflect Hoppens personal interests and passions, and his extremely focused appreciation of the image.

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Group-Show: Seduced by Art: Photography past and present

31 October 2012 - 20 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Admission Fee The National Gallery Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present is The National Gallerys first major exhibition of photography. This groundbreaking show explores the relationship between historical painting, early photography of the mid-19th century, and some of the most exciting work being done by photographers today.Seduced by Art takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art traditions, including Old Master painting, to explore and justify the possibilities of their art. Right from the beginning, photography dared to claim traditional high art subjects as its own. Far from being a general survey, the exhibition draws attention to one particular and rich strand of photographys history, in major early works by the greatest British and French practitioners alongside photographs by an international array of contemporary artists. The show includes new photography and video specially commissioned for the exhibition and on public display for the first time, plus works rarely seen in the UK.

Group-Show: Everything was moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s
13 September 2012 - 13 January 2013, Daily 11.00-18.00, Admission Fee Barbican Gallery, Barbican Centre Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades th of the 20 Century. Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s tells a history of photography, through the photography of history. It brings together over 350 works, some rarely seen, others recently discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time. Everything Was Moving opens at Barbican Art Gallery on 13 September 2012. It features key figures of modern photography including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov and Shomei Tomatsu, as well as important practitioners whose lives were cut tragically short such as Ernest Cole and Raghubir Singh. Each contributor has, in different ways, advanced the aesthetic language of photography, as well as engaging with the world they inhabit in a profound and powerful way.

Group-Show: William Klein and Daido Moriyama

10 October 2012 - 13 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Last Admission 17.15, Admission Fee Tate Modern Bank Side, London, SE1 9TG Explore modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through the photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama. This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship between the work of influential photographer and filmmaker Klein, and that of Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. With work from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition demonstrates the visual affinity between their urgent, blurred and grainy style of photography and also their shared desire to convey street life and political protest, from anti-war demonstrations and gay pride marches to the effects of globalisation and urban deprivation.

Ansel Adams: Photography from the mountain to the sea

9 November 2012 28 April 2013, Daily 10.00-17.00, Admission Fee National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, London, SE10 9NF Ansel Adams is the most popular and arguably the most influential photographer in American history. Famous for dramatic and evocative landscapes, he produced iconic and beautiful images of American nature. The forests, mountains and coastlines of the US provided a rich environment for Adamss pioneering photography, and this exhibition brings together his most powerful and striking pictures of water in all its forms, from awe-inspiring images of epic seascapes, dramatic rapids and geysers, to crashing waterfalls, placid ponds, raging rivers and beautiful ice-locked landscapes. Fluid, ephemeral, and unpredictable, water brought dynamic motion and feeling to his pictures. Water provided Adams with a persistent source of inspiration and opportunity for experimentation both in his art and his photographic process. Adams was a true pioneer whose influence continues to be felt to this day.

Group-Show: Light from the Middle-East: New Photography

13 November 2012 7 April 2013, Daily 10.00-17.45, Admission Fee Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL Light from the Middle East: New Photography is the first major museum exhibition of contemporary photography from and about the Middle East. It will feature more than 90 works by some of the most exciting artists from the region, spanning North Africa to Central Asia. The photographs on display will show the creative responses to the social challenges and political upheavals that have shaped the Middle East over the past 20 years and include up-to-date work made following the recent revolution in Egypt. The photographs will present multiple viewpoints of a region where collisions between personal, social, religious and political life can be emotive and complex.