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![This February we are pleased to be supporting Shado, a publication amplifying the voices of those at the frontline change, on their collaborative exhibition ‘Build Love, Break Walls’ in celebration of LGBTQI+ history month. The magazine is taking up residency in Bermondsey Project Space for two weeks, where their theme will focus specifically on the […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/d8e867cc-1ce6-4ce2-8378-393bb205a853-770x1020-1.jpg "Shado: Build Love, Break Walls.")
![Auto Italia brings ‘Hot Moment’, a new exhibition curated by Radclyffe Hall featuring artists Tessa Boffin, Ingrid Pollard, Jill Posener. ‘Hot Moment’ examines photographic representations that emerge from the threshold of intimacy and public life in the 1980s and 90s. The exhibition presents the work of these three photographers for whom lesbian identity was never a […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Jill-Posener_Join-Lesbians-1024x731.png "‘Hot Moment’ featuring Tessa Boffin, Ingrid Pollard, Jill Posener")
![With over 100 galleries and thousands of artists set to exhibit at this years London Art Fair, it promises to be as dynamic, inspiring and engaging as ever. To help you navigate the maze of exhibitions we’ve put together a little snapshot of some the work, events and galleries not to be missed at this […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Webp.net-gifmaker-4.gif "London Art Fair 2020: Don’t Miss")
![2020 is a very special year for us at Metro Imaging, as it’s our 40th Anniversary! Founded by Ben Richardson and his best friend from school, Mike Trevillion, Metro began as a two-man operation, providing black and white printing back in 1980 from a small establishment in Great Titchfield Street. Great energy and a genuine […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/40_slow-1.gif "Metro Imaging Turns 40!")
![2020 is a big one for recent photography graduate Angela Blažanović. Not only will Blažanović’s work ‘Fragments of A River’ be exhibited as a solo show at the upcoming Free Range Awards, but her work will also be presented as part of Jetsam, a two-person exhibition opening at Sid Motion Gallery this month. The ‘Fragment […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Angela-B_06.red-wire-ball-and-a-salad-leaf.jpg "Angela Blažanović at Sid Motion Gallery")
![The Free Range Awards are back presenting another stellar collection of solo shows by three visual artists practising a multitude of disciplines: Angela Blažanović, Christoph Jones, and Jennifer Forward-Hayter. Selected from the 2019 summer graduate shows, the three exhibitions explore plastic pollution, immigration politics, and the performative nature of working life, respectively. Each artist will […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/free-range-2020-holidng-01-698x1024.jpg "Free Range Awards 2020")
![The Rebecca Vassie Trust today announces the fourth annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers, including a bursary worth £3,000. The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a narrative photography project, includes £2000 cash prize along with a £1,000-worth of premier printing at Metro Imaging plus support towards industry […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AwardPoster2020-Original-Image-Ebola-screening-Entebbe-Airport-Uganda-2014-by-Rebecca-Vassie-1024x724.jpg "SUBMISSIONS OPEN: Rebecca Vassie Trust 2020")
![This Autumn photographers worldwide, professional or amateur, were invited by YOUMANITY to reach out to family and friends, to take a celebratory portrait or an image encapsulating the meaning of friendship. From over four thousand photographic entries from 57 different countries 16 entries were chosen by the judges, here we showcase the top three: WINNING […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-11.19.50-1024x684.png "Youmanity: Friend-Ship Photography Award")
![The newly established gallery Maison Touchard has launched this winter with its inaugural exhibition, Housewarming. This dynamic group showcase features the work of Jemma Appleby, Alice Bucknell, Vanessa Dziuba, Shawn Maximo, Lindsey Mendick, and Camille Yvert. Marking the launch of Maison Touchard, a project space set in an East London council flat, Housewarming explores the dichotomy between […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-09-at-16.37.23-1024x1014.png "HOUSEWARMING x Maison Touchard")
![This winter the exciting art space Elephant West welcomes visual artist Eleanoir Macnair and her delightful on-going body of work, Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh. Her project aims to highlight obscure images by overlooked photographers, or contemporary projects which lack exposure, as well as creating some of the most-known photographic works. We were delighted to work […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/low-EW_EM_09.jpg "Surrealists Rendered in Play-Doh by Eleanor Macnair")
![This month sees the opening of ‘Icebreaker Dreaming’ with an outdoor projection of a frozen arctic sea animating the exterior wall of Pushkin House on Bloomsbury Square on the opening night. This is a new solo exhibition by the artist Ruth Maclennan. The exhibition explores the Russian Arctic, as a place to live in, to […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/choirbeach-1024x683.jpg "Icebreaker Dreaming by Ruth Maclennan")
![Metro Imaging recently had the pleasure of working closely with London-based, South African Photographer Gideon Mendel in producing his 2019 Prix Pictet Award shortlisted series Damage: A Testament of Faded Memory. The theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet is Hope, a theme that offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1920-1024x572.jpg "Gideon Mendel – Prix Pictet 2019")
![Following the highly successful launch of Wonderful Things at The V&A, Michael Hoppen presents Wonderful People by Tim Walker – the first private gallery exhibition of work by the world-renowned photographer. For this exclusive show, Walker and Hoppen have delved through the archives to uncover wonderful pictures of wonderful people in wonderful places – often […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tw-1024x819.jpg "Tim Walker: Wonderful People")
![From market-place to movie-set, sex shop to a coffee bar, crime scene to cabaret, Soho has always been an unfolding and complex spectacle, central to the music, fashion, design, film and sex industries alongside being a vibrant hub for LGBTQ+ communities. It has also, across the centuries, been home to a variety of immigrant communities […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Soho_Exclusive_View_Newsletter_Hero_2b881b39a2b44b5ef2c7d0a94e73d8ae-e1570697678218.jpg "Shot In Soho x The Photographers’ Gallery")
![A sleeping seal, a curious racoon and a tragic turtle are just some of the captivating and emotive images from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, which is now in its fifty-fifth year. With almost 50,000 entries from professional and amateur photographers submitted to this year’s competition, the world-renowned exhibition will […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ralf-schneider-55-full-width.jpg.thumb_.1160.1160-1024x576.jpg "Wildlife Photographer of The Year 55")
![Breaking Barriers Charity annual exhibition returns this year with a collection of portraits and interviews featuring Breaking Barriers members, all of them refugees or from a refugee background. This series of photographs tells the extraordinary stories of the refugees’ lives, journeys and personal dreams, through the everyday objects that reflect their experiences. All of the […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BB-Exhibition-2019-Invite-10092019-V4-705x1000.jpg "Breaking Barriers Exhibition 2019: Belonging")
![Daniel Meadows, one of Britain’s foremost documentary photographers, has been authentically capturing British life and celebrating what he calls ‘the felt life of the great ordinary’ for almost half a century. Daniel Meadows: Now and Then presents pairs of portraits taken in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, alongside short films explaining how the […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/John-Payne-aged-12-with-friends-and-his-pigeon-Chequer.-Portsmouth-1974.-Image-credit-©-Daniel-Meadows.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-Bodleian-Libraries-University-of-Oxford-1024x1024.jpg "Daniel Meadows: Now & Then")
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Opening tonight at @SeenFifteen is FORM, presented by @revolvcollectiv. Check out the full list of talks & events throughout the exhibition via: https://revolv.org.uk/
Images © Ibrahim Azab & Krasimira Butseva,
What a great opportunity to tell a few stories from my @FirstWomenUK journey ! https://twitter.com/brightonmuseums/status/1227915045838950400
Our gallery explainers are getting ready to answer your questions about the new exhibition at Brighton Museum. Anita Corbin: 100 First Women Portraits opens on Saturday! Join us for a free day of talks. @FirstWomenUK #100firstwomen
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