It’s a knockout! Punchy images from Photo London

Beatles Girl, 1964

Photo London marks its 10th day with a peculiar variation celebrating the superior and its affluent traditions of photography. Featured astatine this year’s just is Joseph McKenzie who pioneered the teaching of photography wrong the UK’s creation acquisition establishment. His beingness ambition was to summation acceptance for photography arsenic good art. McKenzie worked predominantly arsenic a societal documentary lensman – ‘a antheral with a conscience’ – focused connected radical successful mundane life. Photo London is astatine Somerset House, London, 15–18 May

Photograph: Joseph McKenzie/Mckenzie & Hamilton Gallery

Fire masks, Downshire Hill, London, 1941

This year’s Lee Miller Archives booth astatine Photo London volition centre mostly connected her warfare journalism, tying the booth to the movie Lee. Photo London gives collectors the accidental to bargain a portion of past earlier the large forthcoming accumulation astatine Tate Britain successful October. You tin see much successful our assemblage here

Photograph: Lee Miller/Lee Miller Archives

The Elgin Majorettes, Drummies series, 2017–2020

Alice Mann’s bid Drummies depicts the unsocial and aspirational subculture surrounding all-female teams of drum majorettes. The Elgin Majorettes squad is made up of girls from a fig of schools astir the area. These 4 girls be St Michael’s Primary. The team’s manager is besides the headmaster of the school

Photograph: Alice Mann

Female Boxers, 2024

Julia Fullerton-Batten is simply a good creation lensman renowned for her cinematic ocular storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based astir circumstantial themes, each representation embellishing her taxable substance successful a bid of thought-provoking ‘stories’ utilizing staged tableaux and blase lighting techniques

Photograph: Julia Fullerton-Batten

Casual, 1995

Mary McCartney’s enactment is based astir creating intimate connections with her sitters – and inviting the spectator to go a subordinate successful the representation arsenic good arsenic an observer. You tin spot much of her enactment successful this assemblage of London photographers

Photograph: Mary McCartney

Blending In, 2018

Bee Gats is simply a Latino lensman from Miami. He creates gritty, earthy and unfiltered portraits of Miami’s underground – a satellite helium himself grew up successful – often including images of guns and pack violence

Photograph: BeeGats/Mortal Machine 

Venus 02, 2024

Fantastical supernatural creatures, intimate portraits of London girlhood and delicate works printed connected solid and azygous leaves marque up Sarabande’s House of Bandits’ archetypal foray into Photo London. This representation explores the modulation betwixt states of health, unwellness and wellbeing, utilizing recycled materials related to remainder and betterment (pillows, mattresses, duvets) to make tactile shapes that envelop the body

Photograph: Paloma Tendero/Sarabande Foundation

Untitled, 2023

Margriet Smulders’ inactive lifes, which she started photographing successful the 1990s, usage mirrors, elaborate solid vases and affluent draperies alongside vibrant florals. They often notation Greek myths of love, rivalry, jealousy and bloodshed utilizing abstract imagery

Photograph: Margeriet Smulders/Contour Gallery

Overflow, 2025

Petite Doll is simply a existent creator successful residence astatine Sarabande, practising crossed photography, video and integer art. Her enactment fuses self-portraiture and surrealism by inhabiting antithetic characters, with meticulous attraction to item fixed to the props and sets she handcrafts herself

Photograph: Petite Doll AKA Giulia Grillo/House of Bandits by Sarabande foundation

Las taparas de Caruao, 2021

Gabriel Pinto, a young Venezuelan lensman and researcher, focuses connected ethnographic probe and photography. Pinto’s enactment focuses connected celebrating, honouring and preserving African-Venezuelan culture, inspired by his heavy transportation to his practice successful Barlovento, wherever 100,000 African radical were taken arsenic slaves betwixt the 16th and 19th centuries. They were forced to enactment arsenic labourers connected cocoa haciendas – this past has resulted successful beardown determination traditions, cuisine and crafts

Photograph: Gabriel Pinto/BETA Contemporary

Julia, from My Eyes Have Seen You

Omri Emile Rosengart collected stories implicit 4 years for his book. The moments shared are preserved pieces of his continued journey, revealing his thoughts towards each representation presented. There volition beryllium a publication signing astatine Photo London

Photograph: Omri Emile Rosengart/Bright Gallery

Molly Matalon, When a Man Loves a Woman, 2020

Matalon’s enactment deals with tendency and powerfulness dynamics, fixing a regard that empowers and provides a seldom seen pistillate photographic viewpoint. Her enactment has appeared successful the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times among others

Photograph: Molly Matalon/Palm Studios

Untitled, from Before Freedom, 2022

Adam Rouhana is simply a Palestinian-American creator whose photography deconstructs Orientalism wrong the broader discourse of Palestine. He questions his presumption arsenic a Palestinian down the camera, some arsenic a westerner, having grown up successful the US, and arsenic an Arab. He is often inspired by home beingness from his aboriginal memories successful Palestine

Photograph: Adam Rouhana

Pablo Picasso astatine Hotel Vaste Horizon, 1937

Amar Gallery volition contiguous the revolutionary photograms and photographs by Dora Maar, alongside Stephen Shames, the authoritative lensman for the Black Panther party. Both Maar and Shames fought for equality, often utilizing their creation to item societal issues

Photograph: Dora Maar/Amar Gallery

Angela Davis, 1960s

Amar Gallery’s presumption is an illustration of exhibitors utilizing their abstraction to item societal issues, successful this lawsuit forefronting messages of revolution, equality and justice

Photograph: Stephen Shames/Amar Gallery

Feast II, 2024

Shooting astir exclusively connected achromatic and achromatic movie and utilizing accepted processing techniques – successful this lawsuit multiple-exposure metallic gelatin prints – successful his location studio, Robin Hunter Blake sets retired to research the much tangible processes successful representation making. He has a axenic and poetic attack to process

Photograph: Robin Hunter Blake/Guerin Projects

Baldwin Lee, Charleston, South Carolina, 1984

These intimate portrayals of regular beingness successful the American south, peculiarly of puerility acquisition and joy, are vintage Baldwin Lee works of the 1980s

Photograph: Baldwin Lee/David Hill Gallery

Running, 2024

Klea McKenna demonstrates a instrumentality to accepted techniques, and the solemnisation of the objectivity of a photograph arsenic thing to beryllium seen successful existent beingness and to beryllium experienced

Photograph: Klea McKenna/EUQINOM

Jaraguatambu, 2024

Bendana-Pinel assemblage shows 1 of Brazil’s starring modern photographers, Caio Reisewitz, whose enactment explores the changing relations of metropolis and countryside successful airy of the clime emergency, some successful Brazil and the remainder of the world. Brazil is simply a federation of contradictions, caught betwixt a tendency to sphere an exceptionally affluent biology practice and the volition for exponential growth. Reisewitz seeks to seizure the representation of a fragile beauty, that of an unspoiled nature; an Eden endangered by deforestation, lipid exploitation and enlargement of settlements

Photograph: Caio Reisewitz/Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain

Drum screen miss Erlin Ibreck stepping retired of a Jaguar successful Kilburn, London, 1966

Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière returns to the just with works by Martin Parr and James Barnor. Photographs by Barnor from his workplace successful London successful the precocious 60s observe his pioneering relation successful bridging Ghanaian and British taste identities done photography

Photograph: James Barnor/Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière

Mayor of Todmorden’s inaugural banquet, West Yorkshire, 1977

Early works by Parr connection a glimpse into the improvement of his keen observational style

Photograph: Martin Parr/Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière