The Fine Art of Selling – Photo London – May 14th – 17th
Presented as part of the Fair, Meisel’s exhibition will focus on a series of portraits made in London, revisiting the city that played a pivotal role in his early career. His first professional assignment in London followed his collaboration with Madonna on the landmark book Sex, a project that afforded him an unprecedented level of creative freedom and scale.
Working across locations including Spitalfields, the Docklands, Notting Hill and Portobello Road, Meisel captured a version of London defined by instinct, attitude and disruption. These portraits reflect a city in motion, shaped by a restless, anarchic energy that would come to define a generation of fashion imagery.
Photographed in pubs, alleyways and along canal paths, these works capture a distinctly London sensibility, where fashion collides with everyday life and conventional codes are dismantled. Directed with precision yet charged with spontaneity, Meisel’s portraits remain a defining study of style as attitude rather than image.
Photo London Awards
Alongside this wholehearted celebration of photography, the regular Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer of the Year Award again highlights outstanding emerging photographers with shortlisted work presented in a special display at the Nikon Gallery at the Fair. Now in its eleventh year, and sixth in partnership with Nikon, many previous winners of the award have gone on to achieve significant international recognition such as the 2021 winner Heather Agyepong.
The Photo London Student Award also returns to the Fair in 2026. Working with UK universities offering photography degrees, the award highlights the most exciting early-career talent within the industry, bringing their portfolios to international attention.
The 2026 Photo London Talks Programme also returns with a curated series by Thames & Hudson, including an in-conversation between Jill Furmonovsky and Nigel Atherton surveying Furmanovsky’s 50-year career and her work with Oasis and Pink Floyd; Fiona Rogers and Justine Kirland in conversation on the relationship between photography, feminist art and collage; a talk by the current Prix Pictet Laureate Alfredo Jaar; and a discussion between Charlotte Cotton and Jess T Dugan about their book Love Pictures, the first survey of Dugan’s work. Photo London will also present several talks on the art of collecting featuring, amongst others, Ettore Molinario and Lady Ina Sarikhani Weston.
More information about what to expect at Photo London, plus details of how to order tickets, can be found by going here.
