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![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")
![Following another succesful Free Range Graduate Shows earlier this year we are now gearing up for the 2020 Free Range Solo Shows, taking place next February at the Truman Brewery. In addition to each winner being awarded an exhibition with the Free Range Solo Shows 19/20 – supported by Metro Imaging – both artists receive […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/4.-Turquoise-Pipe-Yellow-Rope-Glass-Bottle-Yellow-Tulips-and-a-Little-Yellow-Square-II.jpeg "Angela Blažanović – Free Range Solo Award Shows 2020")
![Following another succesful Free Range Graduate Shows earlier this year we are now gearing up for the 2020 Free Range Solo Shows, taking place next February at the Truman Brewery. In addition to each winner being awarded an exhibition with the Free Range Solo Shows 19/20 – supported by Metro Imaging, both artists receive an […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/JenniferForwardHayter_25.jpg "Jennifer Forward-Hayter – Free Range Solo Award Shows 2020")
![Why do we play? How important is it for all of us, young or old? What does it mean to play well? The Wellcome Collection brings an interactive and playful exhibition this autumn. Play Well examines the importance of play in childhood and the impactful role it has on both young and adults and across […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Kristina-an-hour-after-the-shelling-in-Luhanske-Eastern-Ukraine-2-2017-Mark-Neville.-©-Mark-Neville.--1024x576.jpg "Wellcome Collection: Play Well")
![This October Youmanity invites you to enter their Annual Photography competition. Both amateur and professional photographers welcome – submission is free and the theme, this year, is ‘Friend-Ship’. This award launched on 10th September this year coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day; celebrating friendships and encouraging you to connect with friends or re-connect with long-lost […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-01-at-10.20.12-1-1024x647.png "FRIEND-SHIP: Photography Award 2019 x Youmanity")
![We are supporting the Global Climate Strike movement by expanding our eco-values and practises in-lab and laying out some more green incentives for all our clients. From packaging to delivery services, Metro Imaging will be running a green campaign from 20-27 September onwards in order to make a small contribution to the cause. So, with […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/strikes-share-img-philippines-green-EN-1024x591.jpg "Metro x Global #ClimateStrike")
![This autumn the V&A brings us on an immersive journey into the fantastical worlds created by one of the world’s most inventive photographers Tim Walker. Metro Imaging are delighted to have provided production for multiple works on show as part of this outstanding new exhibition created by Walker and designed by leading British creative, Shona […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/VA-Tim-Walker-Wonderful-Things-Exhibition-Installation-View-Lil-Dragon-Section-2-c-Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-London-1024x752.jpg "V&A: Tim Walker – Wonderful Things")
![In collaboration with Life Framer we’re excited to bring you another amazing free event as part of their 5th Edition Exhibition programme. On Thursday 26th September, we will be hosting portfolio review sessions and networking event at the Bermondsey Project Space open to all photography artists. This fast-paced, interactive portfolio session offers you a unique […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/metro-folio-reviews.jpg "EVENT: Speed Portfolio Review Sessions")
![Ex-Special Forces turned artist and reportage photographer, Bran Symondson and House of Fineart Gallery bring ‘Hollywood Re-loaded’, a bold reinvention of Terry O’Neill’s portraits of Hollywood icons posing with guns. Inspired by the changing perception of guns and the conversation about gun violence around the world, ‘Hollywood Re-loaded’ showcase classic portraits by Terry O’Neill of […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/frank-bran-symndson-761x1024.jpg "HOLLYWOOD RE-LOADED: Bran Symondson x Terry O’Neill")
![Time to embrace rejection because Portrait Salon is back! For its ninth year running Portrait Salon is accepting rejected work from the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – which this year received 3,700 submissions from 1,611 photographers – and Metro Imaging is proud to continue its support of this ‘Salon des Refusés’. “Portrait […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/189_Michal-Dzierza_1-793x1024-793x1024.jpg "Portrait Salon 2019 – Ninth Edition")
![Become immersed in deep lustres of black punctuated with luminous 24-karat gold and opulent ultramarine blue hues in Lina Iris Viktor’s singular artistic universe. The first major solo exhibition in the UK of British-Liberian artist, Lina Iris Viktor will open at Autograph, London this September. SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT — DARK MATTER will […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/new-lina-iris-viktor-we-are-the-night-—the-keepers-of-light-2015-9.-commissioned-by-autograph.-courtesy-the-artist-and-autograph-london.jpg "Lina Iris Viktor: SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT — DARK MATTER")
Congratulations Pablo Albarenga! The quality of work this year was incredible and this is so well deserved @WorldPhotoOrg
'I hope that many more photographers from our region will continue to contribute with our voices’ says #SWPA Photographer of the Year and Latin America Professional Award winner Pablo Albarenga. Enter now! https://bit.ly/3f1VTic
from @MirandaGavin @*£100 CASH PRIZE* DESIGN A POSTER CAMPAIGN TO RAISE AWARENESS DOMESTIC ABUSE UNDER COVID-19 You can do something to help. Creative people all disciplines across the globe, free to enter. Deadline 10 DECEMBER.
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From new series of #dogpaintings on sale @Hospital_Rooms all proceeds to charity #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness #dacshund #welshterrier
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Today at noon we will be launching a number of beautiful rainbow paintings by @tamsinrelly.
Available from noon at http://www.hospital-rooms.com/original-artworks
Unframed pieces from £175 and framed from £325, with all proceeds going to Hospital Rooms 🌈
