Photo London moved to Olympia for its eleventh edition in May 2026, and Steven Meisel showed his first London portraits as Master of Photography.
Photo London, the capital’s fair for photography, held its eleventh edition at Olympia London in West Kensington from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May 2026. It was the first time the fair had left Somerset House.
Daniel Newburg established Photo London in 2004 and held it at the Royal Academy until 2006. It moved to Old Billingsgate for 2007 and then stopped.
The fair relaunched in 2015 at Somerset House, drawing 20,000 visitors and 70 galleries from more than 20 countries in its first year back. London had no fair dedicated to photography before it.
A photograph exists in an edition, and its value depends on when the print was made and by whom. A screen shows none of that, so the trade is built on standing in front of the object.
Steven Meisel, the fashion photographer who has rarely exhibited, was Master of Photography. He hung black-and-white portraits on the first floor of the National Hall, from his first London assignment onward. They included his series with Isabella Blow that cast Stella Tennant, Bella Freud and Plum Sykes.
Newcomers came from India and Africa, and Positions, the section for artists without a gallery, grew.