London’s National Portrait Gallery and CHANEL Culture Fund have teamed up to create a new post, the CHANEL Curator of Photography. The role is the first medium-specific role CHANEL has supported at the NPG, and builds on a partnership with the gallery dating back to 2020. The first CHANEL Curator of Photography will be announced later this Autumn
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends at the National Portrait Gallery, London, is a vibrant celebration of queer identity, community and the trailblazers who shaped LGBTQ+ history and culture
Amin Yousefi alters an Iranian school textbook to explore how physical movements turn into expressions of political control, obedience and ideology with his latest series Defensive Readiness: Revised Edition.
Spy catchers: Valeria Arendar and Eleana Konstantellos uncover Mexican espionage in the Cold War era
Blending fact and fiction, Valeria Arendar and Eleana Konstantellos take a deep dive into the world of Mexican espionage during the Cold War era
The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease
Masha Sviatahor works with archival Soviet images to deconstruct political narratives and question how images shape perception
Drawing on the familiar blue and gold motifs often associated with the European Union, the German-born, Brussels-based photographer Jan Staiger explores the visual language of the Commission’s bureaucracy and ideology with the work A Circle of 12 Gold Stars on a Blue Background
Hoda Afshar, Lotus L Kang, Sasha Kurmaz and Salvatore Vitale announced as contenders for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2027
Misan Harriman discusses his artistic practice, steadfast principles and political activism and why he will never be silenced
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