On a narrow side street just off Oxford Street, there is a place of cultural escape, a place where the nightmare crowds of London’s busiest shopping street can be swapped for the relative peace and quiet of one of the West End’s most underrated cultural institutions, the Photographer’s Gallery. Regularly hosting first-rate exhibitions (often free) – and with a killer store in the basement – it’s a haven in the heart of the city. In what amounts to great news for the neighborhood, the Photographer’s Gallery has had a hand in the creation of the new Soho Photography Quarter, an outdoor cultural space that will feature free open-air exhibitions for anybody passing through.
The roster of exhibits will focus on solo artists, with British and international photographers displayed and projected onto the walls and hung between the buildings that neighbor Ramillies Street. The space opened in June 2022 with an inaugural exhibition by Aboriginal Australian artist Christian Thompson.
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Photography © Luke Hayes
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