The Photographer's Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW, United Kingdom
Was founded in 1971 by Sue Davies OBE.
The building was originally a converted Lyon’s Tea Bar at No. 8 Great Newport Street in London’s Covent Garden.
The Gallery is free to the public and is the world’s first gallery devoted solely to photography. The goal is to provide a proper home for photographers and their work, as well as establish the medium as a serious art form. The Concerned Photographer featured work that demonstrated an impulse, not just to record the world, but to educate and change it. It established The Photographer’s Gallery as a significant new voice in the cultural landscape and a unique centre for photography.
Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time: A featured piece at the Photographer's Gallery
In 1980, the Gallery acquired an additional space at No. 5 Great Newport Street, extending its exhibition spaces and allowing the development of a bookshop and café, as well as a Print Sales room, dedicated to promoting and selling the work of British international photographers.
In May 2012, the Gallery was able to extend its ambitions and activities for photographic exploration by relocating to its new and current home in the heart of the West End.
The Gallery now offers three world-class exhibition spaces, a dedicated education and learning studio, a digital media wall, an enhanced area for the bookshop and Print
Sales, including a gallery- as well as a spacious café area.
Sally Mann Exhibition at the Photographers Gallery London
A key part of the program, is the prestigious annual international photography Prize. Founded in 1996 with Citigroup, the Prize is now sponsored by the Deutsche Börse group and celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2014. This high-profile exhibition and award of £30,000 celebrates and commends a living photographer for a distinctive body of work or publication (produced in the year before the award is given) that has significantly contributed towards photography in Europe. Past prize-winners include Andreas Gursky (1998), Shirana Shahbazi (2002), Juergen Teller (2003) Luc Delahaye (2005), Robert Adams (2006), Walid Raad (2007), Esko Männikkö (2008), Paul Graham (2009), Sophie Ristelhueber (2010), Jim Goldberg (2011), artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (2013) and the 2014 winner Richard Mosse.