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Installation view of 'Chosen Family' at Queer Britain
Image courtesy of Queer Britain 2022, © John Sturrock.
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Looking for a photography exhibition near you?

From the birth of photography to cutting-edge current work, here’s where to find photography exhibitions in the UK as well as galleries dedicated to photography, film, and the moving image.

Whether you’re in London or elsewhere in the UK, find a fascinating photography exhibition for your perfect day out.

Must-see museums

Places to visit with your National Art Pass
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Arnolfini

Art Fund Museum of the Year
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2016 finalist
Bristol
South West
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Autograph

London
Greater London
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Ballycastle Museum

Ballycastle
Northern Ireland
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Barbican Art Gallery

London
Greater London
50% off exhibitions
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Beck Isle Museum

Pickering
Yorkshire
50% off entry
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Bolton Museum & Aquarium

Bolton
North West
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City Art Centre

Edinburgh
Scotland
50% off exhibitions
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Dimbola Museum & Galleries

Freshwater Bay
South East
Free entry
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Mohamed Hassan
Mohamed Hassan

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Marquee is a key element of Anywhen, Philippe Parreno’s 2016 site-specific Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. It is also a standalone work in its own right. Anywhen ran for six months and comprised a range of media, from film and light to sound and digital art. A new sequence of events unfolded each day in response to the changing conditions of a colony of yeast living in the Turbine Hall. Marquee, which hung in the space at Tate Modern during the run of Anywhen, is the last in a number of works of the same title created by Parreno since 2006. These works are inspired by the luminous signs that hung outside American movie theatres in the 1950s. In Parreno’s work they signify the entrance to an alternative, avant-garde space. The Marquee for Anywhen produces patterns of light and sound in response to the data it receives from yeast or other sources. It also records these patterns, thus building up an archive of its own display history, as well as adding to this history with each new showing. Parreno was born in Algeria and studied in Grenoble and Paris. He is known for his site-specific installations and his films, which include Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006), made in collaboration with artist Douglas Gordon.
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