Selected shows on now
The ones worth crossing town for
A short list, refreshed as new shows open — the strongest exhibitions on right now, with a line on why each one made the cut.
Open nowAltered States
Ben Stezaker, Kirsty Thomas, Simon Sandy, Ainoa Burgos, Nina Garstang, Rachel Maloney, Jemma Day, Christine Benson
Photoworks Festival · Gallery 19a
2 Oct – 13 Oct
“Eight artists push photography beyond the camera — cyanotypes, wet plate and photographic sculpture — in Brighton Alternative Photography’s first open-call show.”
Open nowLULL
Laura El-Tantawy
Photoworks Festival · Unit 6
3 Oct – 16 Oct
“Internationally acclaimed Laura El-Tantawy brings her distinctive, impressionistic photographic vision to a multi-location presentation.”
Open nowTessa Boffin: Where We Touch The Archive, Draft 3
Tessa Boffin
Photoworks Festival · Phoenix Art Space
2 Oct – 18 Oct
“An opportunity to encounter the archive of a pioneering figure in British lesbian photographic practice.”
Open nowPseudomorphs and Fighting Fish
Sam Kaufman, Holly Birtles
The Regency Town House
2 Oct – 18 Oct
“Two ambitious bodies of work connect ecological instability with bodily transformation through inventive photographic and moving-image practices.”
Open nowRichard Billingham: Fishtank
Richard Billingham
Photoworks Festival · Satellite Storefront
2 Oct – 31 Oct
“A presentation of Fishtank by Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham, whose intimate family studies transformed contemporary British art.”
Open nowGhosts in the Field
Murray Ballard
Phoenix Art Space
2 Oct – 1 Nov
“Murray Ballard’s quietly uncanny documentary photographs reward a slow look in Phoenix’s street-facing Window Gallery.”
Open nowCollectives Hub
20 Degree Collective, DG03 Collective, Folo Collective, Inner Room, Elephant, Work Show Grow, Whence We Came, Zinnia Collective
Photo Fringe · Phoenix Art Space
2 Oct – 22 Nov
“Eight photography collectives share one gallery — a rare chance to see the breadth of grassroots photographic practice in a single visit.”