Tucked away just moments from bustling Oxford Street is London’s largest independent photographic gallery, the Getty Images Gallery. Known for their vast collection of stock photography, Getty images use this venue to showcase stunning photographic exhibitions. Along with being cost free, this gallery is attitude free. I stumbled upon the gallery mid-afternoon and shared the entire space with only one other visitor. The exhibition on at the time was taken from the Ian Perry Scholarships collection. The Ian Perry Awards give emerging photographers an opening and support in the tough-to-break photography industry. Both disturbing and captivating were the images from Rodrigo Alfaro’s collection, ‘Deaths from childbirth in Paraguay’. Also exhibited was a shockingly beautiful set of editorial imagery captured in Mozambique of a determined child caring for her impoverished AIDS stricken mother. This collection was part of the independent children’s charity, Save the Children, pairing with the Ian Perry Awards.
Love from London – A City of Stars is the next exhibit soon-to-be launched. Running from August 26th – October 9th, here you can view photographs of stars from the golden age of cinema as they experience London, from Audrey Hepburn in Richmond Park to Elizabeth Taylor feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
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