Photo London returns to the capital, filling Somerset House until May 19 with booths and stands displaying images from the dawn of photography to contemporary experiments in light. As always the work ranges from social documentary to personal projects, vintage fashion and music commissions to new digital art. There are previously unseen works by famous photographers (Helen Levitt at Zander Galerie) and rare, signed classics (André Kertész at Atlas Gallery).
The international galleries represented here provide a one-stop view of work such as Christopher Thomas’s project Bittersweet at Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Munich, and at the Paris galleries Binome and Magnin-A, Being There by Lee Shulman/The Anonymous Project and Omar Victor Diop in which Shulman’s collection of found images are creatively blended with the work
