(Updated Oct 2025) - Current and Upcoming Photography Exhibitions in the UK

As you are on your travels or in your home town (for some) why not go along to one of the current photography exhibitions or plan ahead for one of the upcoming exhibitions. These are a great day out and a great opportunity to look at some other peoples work and maybe get that inspiration you were looking for. This may not be an endless list but it does highlight the large number of events that are on.

This post is regularly updated to reflect - Current and Upcoming Photography Exhibitions in the UK

While your they why not - take a friend - grab a nice coffee and a cake!

• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 17

  National Maritime Museum, London

  • Open from 12 September 2025

  • Park Row, London, England SE10 9NF

  • Open daily 10am – 5pm

  • Tickets: £12 adults, £6 concessions

    LINK 

  
  

• Bird Photographer of the Year 2024

  • Gallery Oldham – Manchester (UK) – 14th June 2025 to 6th September 2025

  • Astley Hall – Chorley (UK) – 13th September to 25th October 2025

• Bird Photographer of the Year 2026

  • Rugby Art Gallery – Rugby (UK) – 27th February 2027 – 5th June 2027 LINK 
    

• RPS Landscape Group Members’ Outdoor Exhibition

  Various, touring

  • 6 – 21 September 2025: Yorkshire Museum / Dame Judi Dench Walk, York

  • 4-26 October 2025: Chester Cathedral, Chester

  • 8 – 23 November 2025: Crow Park, Keswick (National Trust)

  • 2 – 17 May 2026: WASPS, Inverness

  • Winter & Spring 2026: Dates to be announced
    

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61

  Natural History Museum, London

  • Opens 17 October 2025 to 12 July 2026

  • Monday – Sunday, 10am-5:50pm

  • Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD

  • Tickets: from £15.50

    LINK
    

• Dennis Morris: Music + Life

  The Photographers’ Gallery

  • 27 June – 28 September 2025

  • 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

  • Monday – Wednesday 10am–6pm, Thursday & Friday 10am–8pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-6pm

  • £10, concessions available
    

• Picture Post: A Twentieth Century Icon

  National Museum Cardiff

  • On now until 9 November 2025

  • Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP

  • Tuesday – Sunday 10am–5pm

  • Tickets: Free
    

• Lee Miller

  Tate Britain, London

  • 2 October 2025 – 15 February 2026

  • Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

  • Monday – Sunday 10am–6pm

  • Tickets: £20, concessions available

  Lee Miller
  

• Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025

  National Portrait Gallery, London

  • 13 November 2025 – 8 February 2026

  • National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

  • Monday – Thursday and Sunday 10am–6pm, Friday and Saturday 10:30am – 9pm

  • Tickets: £9.50

  Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
  

• Voices of Resistance: Slavery and Post in the Caribbean

  The Postal Museum, London

  5 April 2025 - 5 January 2026
  

• Juliet Klottrup: An Archive

  Windermere Jetty Museum, Windermere

  11 October 2025 - 31 May 2026
  

• A Cambridge Diary: A 365 day project that took 13 years

  Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge

  6 November 2025

  1:00-2:00pm

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