Photo London

Client

Candlestar

Year

2016-2019, 2024 (yearly)

Location

Somerset House, London

Project

Art Fair.

Role

Advising on overall spatial strategy, wayfinding design and installation, exhibition and graphic design for public programme.

Photo London is a yearly art fair specializing in photography that takes over four levels of Somerset House every May. It hosts over 100 international commercial galleries as well as a Public Programme of curated exhibitions and talks.

We worked on the editions from 2016 to 2019, advising on the fair’s layout, designing wayfinding and plans, as well as the exhibitions that formed the public programme, and sponsor activations.

Public Exhibitions Programme

2016

Craigie Horsefield, Twelve Sergey Chilikov, Photoprovocations
Mat Stewart, The Magic Lantern Show

2017

Juergen Teller Isaac Julien, Looking for Langston DSLCollection

2018

Edward Burtynsky Group Show, Sun Pictures: Talbot and his Legacy ICP, Unwavering Vision #3

2019

The New York Times, Carbon Casualties (Víctimas del Carbono) Roger Fenton, The Essential Fenton (Fenton Esencial) Artuner, Crossing the Borders of Photography (Cruzando las Fronteras de la Fotografía) Eamonn Doyle, Made in Dublin (Hecho en Dublín) Stephen Shore

Photo London 2024

Examples of Public Programme exhibitions: Eamonn Doyle (Made in Dublin), Edward Burtynsky, Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston), Craigie Horsefield (Twelve), Artuner (Crossing the Borders of Photography).

Examples of wayfinding: signs integrated into architecture, ticket office, isometric sketch of building, outdoor adds, gallery signs, fair plan.

Photo London 2024 promotional video