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Photo London, an art of living phototography

2023-05-12T15:19:54.568Z

Highlights: The 8th edition of Photo London opened at Somerset House, on the Thames, on Thursday. The London fair mixes all the images of the world in 125 galleries from 56 cities. The trend is towards photography that imposes itself on the wall and makes you dream. The tailor-made photo fair was founded in 2015 by photographers from around the world. The fair is open to the public from 11am to 6pm on Thursday and Friday, and from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.


REPORT - For its 8th edition at Somerset House, on the Thames, the London fair mixes all the images of the world in 125 galleries from 56 cities. Pictorialist or pop portraits, intact landscapes, sovereign animals, the trend is towards photography that imposes itself on the wall and makes you dream.


Special Envoy to London.

Photo London, it's just on the other side of the Channel, two and a quarter hours of Eurostar, common ancestors, an old Entente Cordiale that goes from hot to cold. And yet, it's another world.

Less than a week after the coronation of Charles III, the business city has resumed its intense activity, its bikes are speeding, black and shiny taxis bypass traffic jams and make their customers wait with their unexportable humor.

It rains, but it does not affect anyone, as during the passage of the royal carriage last Saturday or the Coronation weekend where there are still sandwiches at the station of Saint-Pancras, but no more stamped "mugs". On Thursday, for the opening to the public of the 8th edition of Photo London, the queue of visitors was long at Somerset House, happy and patient, under the sudden sleet of May.

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