Photography · London
World Press Photo Lands on Bermondsey Street
The world's most famous photojournalism exhibition opens its London run on 21 August at MPB Gallery, led by Carol Guzy's World Press Photo of the Year.
The most recognised name in photojournalism is in SE1 until the end of the month. The World Press Photo Exhibition 2026 runs from Friday 21 August to 30 September at MPB Gallery, 42–44 Bermondsey Street — a short walk from London Bridge, and a fixture of the city's photography calendar for good reason: this is the year's global news, told in the images that defined it.
The 2026 contest's top honour went to American photographer Carol Guzy, for an image of distraught young girls clinging to their father as he is detained by ICE agents following an immigration hearing in New York City. Around it hang the year's other defining frames, per Time Out: an aerial photograph of a polar bear feeding on a whale carcass in Svalbard; a man's desperate plea during the fire at Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court housing complex; Palestinians climbing onto an aid truck entering Gaza. Difficult images, and precisely the point — this is the exhibition that insists you look.
The year's news, told in the frames that defined it — on Bermondsey Street until 30 September.
Adult tickets are £17.50 peak and £13.50 off-peak and concession, £8.50 for ages 12–16, free for under-12s. Doors run 11am–8pm on weekdays and 11am–6pm on weekends and bank holidays, with last entry 45 minutes before close. For anyone in this city who points a camera at anything, it is the essential hour of the season — a masterclass in what a single frame can carry.