London Festival of Photography 2012

The London Festival of Photography is an international festival exploring the best of contemporary and historic visual storytelling and providing a global platform for photographic practice and learning. In June 2012, London's most celebrated venues (Museum of London, British Library, British Museum, Tate Modern, the V&A and more...) will play host to a world-class, city-wide celebration of photography as the London Festival of Photography returns for its second year. Encompassing street, documentary and conceptual photography, the festival includes 18 exhibitions and 40 satellite events including workshops, talks and screenings. Exhibitions will vary in style and format, presenting a comprehensive mixture of disciplines with work from both established and emerging photographers. Content will be curated around the theme, Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private. Topics will include:

photography as a means to reflect not only the external world but also the inner self of the image maker
the social media revolution and how it has overturned our ideas of personal privacy
the changing boundaries of public and private land, what this means for personal freedoms and the ways in which people inhabit these opposing spaces
the effects and ethics of putting a very private photographic image on public display
censorship of images
the democratisation of visual journalism and how the public have become mass purveyors of information

The festival opens to the public on 1 June 2012 (many exhibitions are open during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend 2, 3, 4 & 5 June). Press events and private views will take place on 31 May 2012. Source: London Festival of Photography