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Founded by the team behind London’s Huxley-Parlour Gallery, SOL LDN is a new type of art gallery and collaborative platform, bringing together artists in a carefully tailored offering for the 21st century collector.

Bill Brandt moved from Paris to London in 1933. Fascinated by British society and the class system, he used photography ...
16/06/2026

Bill Brandt moved from Paris to London in 1933. Fascinated by British society and the class system, he used photography to document social inequalities in inter-war Britain. He later travelled to northern England, where his work focused on industrial towns and the poor living conditions of the working class.

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1 - A Snicket in Halifax, 1937

2 - Halifax, 1937

3 - Coal Miners’ Houses Without Windows to the Street, Northern England, 1937

4 - Coal-Miners' Bath, Chester-le-Street, Durham, 1937

5 - Northumbrian Miner at his Evening Meal, 1937

6 - Slag-Heap and Miners' Cottages, Shotton, near Boldon Colliery, East Durham, 1937

7 - A group of coal searchers near Heworth, Tyneside. Pithead train in the distance, 1937

Vivian Maier’s colour work was made during the last 30 years of her life when she began to work with a 35-millimetre cam...
16/06/2026

Vivian Maier’s colour work was made during the last 30 years of her life when she began to work with a 35-millimetre camera. During this time she produced roughly 40,000 Ektachrome colour slides. This colour work became increasingly more abstract than her earlier black and white photography, as she focused her lens on texture and pattern as well as on found objects, newspapers and graffiti. These photographs not only demonstrate Maier’s eye for composition, but also reveal her understanding of the subtleties of colour harmony within a frame.

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Edward Weston, 'Cabbage Leaf' (1931), silver gelatin contact print, printed on 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.Edward Weston is syn...
15/06/2026

Edward Weston, 'Cabbage Leaf' (1931), silver gelatin contact print, printed on 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.

Edward Weston is synonymous with American Modernism, and rightly so – it was a key theme throughout his career reaching a peak in 1927 when he embarked upon a series of still lives of shells and vegetables that have become celebrated Modernist photographs. He was one of the great photographic innovators, who pushed the boundaries of the medium to new levels. He was an artist who found beauty in everything. Weston wanted clear lighting and, additionally, lighting that revealed the truth about an object.

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Berenice Abbott, 'Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos. 4, 6, 8' (1936), signed, silver gelatin print, printed later on 29 x 36 3/4 ...
14/06/2026

Berenice Abbott, 'Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos. 4, 6, 8' (1936), signed, silver gelatin print, printed later on 29 x 36 3/4 inch paper.

Leaving her successful career as a portrait photographer in Paris behind, Berenice Abbott arrived in New York in 1929. She found New York in the midst of its second great building boom but only months after her return, the stock market crashed and the United States began to spiral into the Great Depression. The urban sprawl of New York caught hold of Abbott’s imagination and she devoted herself to capturing the ‘fantastic’ contrasts of the rapidly changing city. She wanted to create ‘an American Art’ and was inspired by Matthew Brady’s Civil War photographs and their evocation of a moment in American history. She was, however, also aware of the tendency in American art to document progress. Rather than glorifying the monumental construction projects, Abbott sought to expose the extreme contrasts of the city and the tensions that had evolved. She wanted to show the nineteenth and twentieth centuries colliding in a dizzying interplay of cultures.

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Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century photography. From his early Parisian black and ...
13/06/2026

Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century photography. From his early Parisian black and white nudes to his colourful and glossy fashion photography made in 1950s and 60s New York, he consistently pushed both stylistic and technical boundaries.

This image is one of the best examples of Blumenfeld’s experimentation. This portrait of the American model Teddy Thurman is strikingly contemporary, with Blumenfeld manipulating the print so Thurman appears both in full view and in profile. His masterful printing techniques see half of his sitter’s face appear as if in an x-ray. His experiments lend the photograph a varied sense of depth and perspective, playing with traditional notions of portraiture and giving the image a surreal quality.

Harry Callahan, 'Eleanor' (1948), signed, silver gelatin print, printed on 8 x 10 inch paper.Callahan's wife, Eleanor Kn...
13/06/2026

Harry Callahan, 'Eleanor' (1948), signed, silver gelatin print, printed on 8 x 10 inch paper.

Callahan's wife, Eleanor Knapp, was one of his most frequent subjects and a constant source of creative inspiration. Callahan sought, in his work, to combine his own lived experience of daily life with a formal analysis of line and light. Between the years of 1947 and 1957, he restlessly photographed both his wife and their daughter, Barbara, to produce photographs that were both personal and visually poetic. When photographing Eleanor and Barbara, he would meticulously arrange their figures to accentuate the particular lighting effects that he was interested in capturing.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hyères (1932), signed, silver gelatin print, printed on 16 x 20 inch paper.Henri Cartier-Bresson ...
12/06/2026

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hyères (1932), signed, silver gelatin print, printed on 16 x 20 inch paper.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), brought a new aesthetic and practice to photography, initiated modern photojournalism, and influenced generations of followers. Striving for a perfect balance of content and formal composition in all his work, he lived and worked by his mantra of ‘the decisive moment’ which he defined as ‘the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event as well as of the precise organisation of forms.’ For Cartier-Bresson, the photograph had to contain significant content that was arranged into rigorous composition.

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Vivian Maier: A Spectrum of Visual Rhymes Vivian Maier’s ability to locate small details and incongruous parallels in ev...
12/06/2026

Vivian Maier: A Spectrum of Visual Rhymes

Vivian Maier’s ability to locate small details and incongruous parallels in everyday life created compositions which are uncanny in both senses of the word: subtly humorous, but also strange and enigmatic. In the late 1970s, Vivian Maier stopped using her famed Rolleiflex camera altogether, and most of her photographs taken in the last quarter of the twentieth century were colour transparencies, captured on Ektachrome film. Whilst Maier’s black and white works gain their imaginative energy from subtleties of form and composition, her later use of colour allows for a greater spectrum of visual rhymes than her earlier, monochromatic works, realising the incongruous elements of her imagery through fully saturated colour.

Zhang Kechun produces epic vistas that dwell on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. H...
11/06/2026

Zhang Kechun produces epic vistas that dwell on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. His work, rendered in soft, muted tones, juxtaposes the country’s rapid modernisation with its cultural histories and traditions.

Pictured: Family Spending the Weekend under a Bridge, Shandong, China, 2011

To learn more, or enquire about the work, visit our website.

Mary Ellen Mark is widely known for her ability to photograph those on the margins of society with compassion and intima...
11/06/2026

Mary Ellen Mark is widely known for her ability to photograph those on the margins of society with compassion and intimacy. Often spending years on projects, Mark’s practice was centred around developing relationships with and gaining the trust of her subjects, resulting in unique portraits which reflected her humanist approach to documentary photography.

Craig Scarmardo and Cheyloh Mather at the Boerne Rodeo, Texas 1991 📸

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