Photo London 2025
We have recently visited the private view of Photo London 2025 this week. This year’s selection showcases a wide range of artworks from antique and alternative film photography to latest AI generated imagery at the Somerset House in London.
We shortlisted some of our favourites from the fair. The exhibition continues until Sunday, May 18th.
Ragnar Axelsson at Qerndu Gallery (G7)
Ragnar Axelsson, Sled Dogs on Sea Ice, Thule – 2010
Arctic Heroes, 162x110 cm, Archival Print, Ragnar Axelsson Coutey of Qerndu Gallery
The gallery features Axelsson’s photography who won Prix Pictet award in 2024. The images are from Greenland, where he traveled to capture the wildlife and climate change. Our favourite artwork Sled Dogs on Sea Ice, Thule (2010), which an image of an alpha dog guarding all the other sled dogs.
The gallery also features nordic landscape photographic prints in the main tent and our glass vessel which is infused with volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull and volcanic sand from Snæfellsjökull. These locations are also where the photographs were taken from and are connected to climate change.
Simbart Projects (E13)
Artworks titled ‘The Loop of the Image’ by Begüm Mütevellioğlu are displayed in a small intimate space on the ground level of the East Wing. The gallery’s press release state:
In this series, the images of Hermann Hahn’s ‘Adam and Eve’ sculptures are re-interpreted, examining the aesthetic representations of the body. The works produced using the cyanotype technique reconstruct the broken pieces of the sculptures on a ground made of apple tree bark. Sculptures that have lost their unity are given a new existence on a two-dimensional surface, and a new whole is produced from the fragments. Accordingly, the concept of the ideal body is addressed in the processes of reconstruction, and the story of the forbidden fruit and expulsion from paradise is re-interpreted in the context of the fragility of the body.
- Simbart Projects
Bildhalle
We were mesmerised by the seascape image by Joost Vandebrug at this gallery in the main tent. ‘Pillow Book’ is a technically detailed series of images that combines analog photography and colour transfer onto small cards. The series explores the connections between past and present experiences.
Joost Vandebrug,
25-83, 2025,
Pillow Book,
135 x 100 cm,
195 monotypes via photo emulsion transfer on handmade paper cards
© Joost Vandebrug
Galerie XII
The two artworks in light and compostion captured our attention.
First one is the Mona Kuhn’s print, She Disappeared into Complete Silence, which composes an images of a nude woman among juxtaposed shadows and reflections.
AD 7258,
2014,
100x80cm,
C-Print mounted on aluminium,
Mona Kuhn / Courtesy Galerie XII
The second artwork is Curtains With A Blue Tint by Susanne Wellm. The photography becomes a curtain with stitching technique.
An exerpt from Wellm’s website describes:
Exploring the physical qualities of the two-dimensional image, she recently developed a method combining photography and weaving, adding complex, tactile layers of colour, contrast and depth to the expression of the pieces.
Susanne Wellm, Woven,
Giclée print, acrylic paint, cotton and polyester thread.,
76.5 x 108 cm,
Unique