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Photo London 2026
Curated by Bindi Vora
Who is seen, remembered and represented in the canon of photography?
National Hall, Olympia
Hammersmith Road
London W14 8UX
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Autograph has one of the UK’s most significant holdings of photography addressing race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice. In a new exhibition at Photo London, we bring together a selection of work by women and non-binary artists from our collection of photography.
Spanning the late 1980s to the present, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For traces a cross-generational lineage of artists who use the image as a space of resistance and imagination. From the incisive self-portraiture of Zanele Muholi to the pioneering conceptual practice of Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition foregrounds artists who have used the photographic image to question who is seen, remembered and represented within the photographic archive.
Spanning portraiture, performance, archival intervention and speculative image-making, the works on display challenge and reshape new ways of seeing the past and the future and offers a rare opportunity to encounter these artists in dialogue.
Most of the works on display were commissioned through Autograph’s ongoing commitment to support artists whose practices challenge dominant histories. This extends to supporting the development of public and private collections, producing and placing editions that advocate for a more inclusive perspective in photography.
Hélène Amouzou, Poulomi Basu, Joy Gregory, Nhu Xuan Hua, Sasha Huber, Mónica de Miranda, Zanele Muholi, Henna Nadeem, Eileen Perrier, Ingrid Pollard, Silvia Rosi, C. Rose Smith, Thato Toeba, Lina Iris Viktor and Carrie Mae Weems.
Carrie Mae Weems, A Single's Waltz in Time, 2003/2025
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Nhu Xuan Hua, New Chapter – Archive from the year ’85, 2026
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Sasha Huber, Khadija Saye - You Are Missed, 2021-22
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Zanele Muholi, Bayephi III, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 2017
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Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003
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Hélène Amouzou, from the series Autoportrait, Molenbeek, 2007-2011
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Mónica de Miranda, Whistle for the Wind, from the series The Island, 2021
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Lina Iris Viktor, We are the Night — The Keepers of Light from the series Dark Continent: Dark Testament, 2015-19.
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Silvia Rosi, from the series Neither Could Exist Alone, 2020
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Ingrid Pollard, from the series The Valentine Days, 2017
Bindi Vora is an interdisciplinary artist of Kenyan Indian heritage and senior curator at Autograph, London.
In her artistic practice, she is interested in how ideas of resistance and resilience are shaped by our surroundings, histories, and lived experience – often using collage to reflect the textures and pluralities of her diasporic identity.
Since joining Autograph, she has curated several critically acclaimed exhibitions, most recently Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire (2026); I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies (2025). Her writing has appeared in, among others, Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (2022); Tate Dialogues 03: The 80s: Photographing Britain (2024); and British Journal of Photography. She is part of the working group “Climate and Colonialism” at the Paul Mellon Centre.
Banner image: Poulomi Basu, from the series Fireflies, 2019 – ongoing. Collection of Autograph, London.
Exhibition preview: 1) Carrie Mae Weems, A Single's Waltz in Time, 2003/2025. Collection of Autograph, London. 2) Nhu Xuan Hua, New Chapter – Archive from the year ’85, 2026. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 3) Sasha Huber, Khadija Saye - You Are Missed, 2021-22. Supported by Art Fund. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 4) Zanele Muholi, Bayephi III, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 2017. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 5) Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003. Collection of Autograph, London. 6) Hélène Amouzou, from the series Autoportrait, Molenbeek, 2007-201. Collection of Autograph, London. 7) Mónica de Miranda, Whistle for the Wind, from the series The Island, 2021. Supported by Art Fund. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 8) Lina Iris Viktor, We are the Night — The Keepers of Light from the series Dark Continent: Dark Testament, 2015-19. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 9) Silvia Rosi, from the series Neither Could Exist Alone, 2020. Commissioned by Autograph, London. 10) Ingrid Pollard, from the series The Valentine Days, 2017. Commissioned by Autograph, London.
Curator: 1) Bindi Vora. Photograph by Zoë Maxwell.
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