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Photo London, Like Its Host City, Is Outward-Facing and Ever-Changing

More than ever, the fair is a snapshot of where global photography stands today—geographically expansive, formally restless and increasingly difficult to define.

Photo London has had a change of backdrop. After 10 years at Somerset House, the U.K.’s leading photography fair has moved five miles west to Olympia, a renovated 19th-century exhibition space in Kensington. From now through May 17, visitors can see photographs brought by galleries from around the world in a new iteration of the fair that puts more emphasis on trade without sacrificing offerings for non-buyers who simply want to look around.

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London is, of course, a global city, and so it’s no surprise that the U.K. capital’s largest photo fair is a snapshot of the world. “I always say that we are a representation of London and how diverse and multicultural it is,” Sophie Parker, director of Photo London, tells Observer. The very first presentation visitors see is 96 silver gelatin prints by Ahmed Ali—brought by PHOTOINK, New Delhi, exhibiting at the fair for the first time—showing workers on their way to factories. A selection of Latin American and Central and Eastern European galleries is situated between the main gallery area and the Discovery Section. Zofia Rydet’s Polish interiors are on view, as are works by David Díaz Gonzales, an indigenous artist from the Shipibo-Konibo........

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