Photography Now

This display showcases the latest additions to the V&A’s collection of global contemporary photography

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  • Saturday, 15 November 2025 – Saturday, 12 September 2026

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL
  • Photography Centre, Gallery 96-97

  • Free event

This display explores some of today’s most pressing issues through diverse approaches to contemporary image-making. Delving particularly into themes of craft and ecology, the display includes two major new commissions by Jonathas de Andrade and Mari Katayama alongside works by Ana Teresa Barboza, Carlos Garaicoa, Dionne Lee, Frida Orupabo, Traces of Nitrate (Ignacio Acosta, Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas), Ilanit Illouz, Mónica Alcazar Duarte, Saodat Ismailova, Sheida Soleimani, Theo Simpson, Yuki Tawada and Fuku Fukumoto. 
Header image: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1779716/rifting-675%C2%BA-90%C2%BA-1125%C2%BA-photograph-theo-simpson/rifting-675%C2%BA-90%C2%BA-1125%C2%BA-photograph-theo-simpson/