Exhibitions

Please join us at the gallery to see a diverse and exciting selection of unframed and framed photographs carefully chosen from the gallery’s archive for our special Christmas weekend. This intriguing selection includes 19th and 20th century photographs of all types including albumen prints, carbon prints and gelatin silver prints. The subject matter is equally wide ranging from portraits [including some famous faces], nudes, landscapes, botanical prints, still-lifes, urban nights...

Bill Brandt [1904 - 1983] was a German born photographer who immigrated to the UK in 1933. Although he travelled throughout Europe he adopted Britain as his home and it was here that he produced his finest work. Known for his incisive depictions of the British, both high society and the working class, his distinctive, highly contrasting portraiture and landscapes were frequently shown in magazines such as Picture Post, Lilliput...

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: BILL BRANDT PETER BEARD GYULA HALÁSZ BRASSAÏ LEO DOHMEN EAMONN DOYLE MANUEL FRANQUELO MASAHISA FUKASE LUCIEN HERVÉ JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE ISHIUCHI MIYAKO SOHEI NISHINO TIM WALKER HARLEY WEIR

Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present an important group of Ishiuchi Miyako’s early work, made in the artist’s hometown, Yokosuka, and its neighbouring city, Yokohama. Ishiuchi Miyako (b. 1947) began her photographic career in the 1970s, shooting these familiar streets and buildings, which were transformed into one of the largest American naval bases in the Pacific during the post-war period. For over ten years, Ishiuchi documented this alien presence,...