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London through a camera lens

See how different photographers have documented London, its buildings, its people and its subcultures over time in this series of captivating photography stories.

  • Music & Subculture
    Music & Subculture

    Through the lens of Charlie Phillips

    One of the most talented, but long overlooked, photographers of 20th-century Britain

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    Roger Mayne’s photographs of post-war London

    A window into life in the capital from the 1950s

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    Henry Grant photographed London from every angle

    Countless London stories in black and white

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    The vivid photography of Bill Brandt

    An influential photographer whose work spanned documentary images and Surrealist portraits

  • Immigration & Identity
    Immigration & Identity

    Neil Kenlock’s photos of 1970s Black London

    Beauty queens and Black Panthers

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    The candid street photography of Margaret Monck

    Capturing the energy of 1930s Londoners

  • Nature & Environment
    Nature & Environment

    Photographs of Stratford before the 2012 Olympics

    The communities and industries that called the Olympic Park site their home

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    An introduction to Christina Broom

    The pioneering photographer who captured the Suffragettes in action

  • Music & Subculture
    Music & Subculture

    London scenes & subcultures by Dick Scott-Stewart

    Photographing youth and belonging on the capital’s cultural margins

  • Nature & Environment
    Nature & Environment

    Take a tour along the River Thames in the 1930s

    An atmospheric trip through lost London riverscapes

  • London Places
    London Places

    London markets photographed by Henry Grant

    Historical bargain hunt

  • Health & Disease
    Health & Disease

    London in lockdown: Pictures of the pandemic

    The city has never looked like this

  • Art & Design
    Art & Design

    Forgotten faces from post-war London

    Fred Wilfred’s photos of London from 1957 to 1962 have remained largely unseen

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