From bin bags to utopia: the best of Photo London 2019 – in pictures

Brooklyn gangs and a glimpse behind North Korea’s closed regime are just two of the highlights of this year’s Photo London festival

Photo London is at Somerset House London, 16-19 May 2019

Main image: Unclaimed City, 2012, by Gigi Scaria Photograph: INDA Gallery

  • Eves 4, 1970

    An image from Japanese photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki’s best-known series Eves
    EVERS 4, 1970Classic Japanese master of photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki will be exhibiting his best known series EVES with the IBASHO gallery

  • We Travelled in Moonlight, 2018

    From the series Han, by Herman Rahman, which traces the history of North Korea, relying largely on archival imagery and found text
    We Travelled in Moonlight, 2018 From the series Han, which traces the collective history of the notoriously closed regime of the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, relying largely on archival imagery and found text

  • Arcadia (T2), 2018

    Nikolai Ishchuk blends photographic, drawing and painting to reimagine mountainous terrains as geometric compositions
    Arcadia (T2) 2018 Silver gelatin prints chemigram cyanotype mixed media. Ishchuk blends photographic, drawing and painting techniques to reimagine mountainous terrains as quasi-architectural geometric compositions

  • City Unclaimed, 2012

    Indian photographer and artist Gigi Scaria creates a unique world of utopian – or is it dystopian? – imagery
    City Unclaimed, 2012 Scaria creates a unique world of utopian images

  • AR Chalten IV, 2015

    Adam Jeppesen’s first solo exhibition in the UK includes his manipulated photographs, which explore ideas of perfection and reality
    AR Chalten IV, 2015, archival inkjet print on folded rice paper, edition of 5 Black Box Projects will present a survey show by Adam Jeppesen - his first solo exhibition in the UK

  • Soulèvement V

    Noémie Goudal’s works examine the relationship between truth and fiction, using mosaic-like fragments to create an alternate landscape
    Soulèvement V Noémie Goudal, based in Paris, examines the relationship between truth and fiction, using mosaic-like fragments, to create an alternate view of landscape

  • Pete (Nomads), 1990

    Image from Andres Serrano’s series of pictures of New York’s homeless community: ‘I didn’t ask my sitters to look noble. But I found that they gave me a very heroic response.’
    Pete (Nomads), 1990 Image from Andres Serrano’s series of pictures of New York’s homeless community: ‘I didn’t ask my sitters to look noble. But I found that they gave me a very heroic response.’

  • Sans Titre, 1953

    The great Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, who generally took just one exposure of each of his images, is represented at this year’s festival
    Sans Titre, 1953

  • Broken Flowers, 2019

    Danish photographer Casper Sejersen’s landscapes and still lives augment his editorial and commercial work
    Broken Flowers, 2019 Danish photographer Casper Sejersen’s landscapes and still lives form a contrast to his editorial and commercial work

  • Sit Down Great Homer Street, 1992

    Tom Wood spent nearly 20 years documenting Liverpool’s Great Homer Street market
    Sit Down Great Homer Street, 1992

  • From the series Exiles 03

    Street photographs by Matilde Damele printed on to plastic bin bags representing humanity lost in an urban existence
    From the series Exiles 03Street photographs printed onto plastic bin bags representing humanity lost in an urban existence

  • Brooklyn Gang

    Focusing on the urban environment, Huxley-Parlour gallery will present photographs by Bruce Davidson, Joel Sternfeld, Bruce Gilden and Alec Soth
    Brooklyn GangHuxley-Parlour will present the work of Bruce Davidson, Joel Sternfeld, Brucce Gilden and Alec Soth focusing on urban environment

  • O Muro, 1952

    An image by the Brazilian photographer Marcio Scavone, who said: ‘You only know that you have found what you are looking for through the viewfinder’
    O Muro, 1952 An image by the great Brazilian photographer, who said: ‘You only know that you have found what you are looking for through the viewfinder’

  • Secando ao Sol

    Another image by Scavone
    Secando ao sol Another image by Scavone
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