We are thrilled to announce that our end of year exhibition will be featuring the work of legendary rock and roll photographer Jill Furmanovsky. For the last 50 years, she has been photographing music’s greatest icons. During her unparalleled career Jill has created captivating live performance, on-the-road, in the studio and behind the scenes images of artists including Pink Floyd, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley & Amy Winehouse.

Picture Jill Furmanovsky © Kevin Westenberg

Dates / Friday 2 June to Saturday 23 September 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Entry Ticket £5 GBP

Buy Tickets Now / Every entry ticket purchased contributes £1 to the Save Me Trust, founded by Sir Brian May and Anne Brummer to protect the welfare and dignity of wild animals.

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Picture Sir Brian May © Javier Robledo Madrigal

Why not make it a Queen day?/ Visit Proud Galleries exhibition before you hit We Will Rock You, a five minute walk down the road. Show Proud Galleries your We Will Rock You musical ticket and receive a 50% discount off the entry fee to Queen Will Rock You in 3-D

Dates / Ongoing / London WC2N 6BP / Free Entry

Gift Shop / We exclusively house the first modern London Stereoscopic Company shop!

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Dates / Ongoing / Brighton BN2 1EF / Performance ticket holders only

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Dates / Ongoing / London WC2R 2A / Performance ticket holders only

Discover / Proud Embankment

Dates / Ongoing / London EC1V 1JH / Free Entry

Dates / Friday 28 April to Saturday 27 May 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Free Entry

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Dates / Thursday 3 November to Saturday 8 April 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Entry Ticket £5 GBP

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Buy Tickets Now / Every entry ticket purchased contributes £1 to the Save Me Trust, founded by Brian May and Anne Brummer to protect the welfare and dignity of wild animals.

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Date / 28 February 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Invitation Only

Proud Galleries and the London Stereoscopic Company hosted an exclusive evening with Sir Brian May and photo historian Denis Pellerin. The pair explained their passion for 3-D images and what made - and still makes - Stereoscopy so unique and special with over a hundred fascinating examples from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy.

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Dates / Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 April 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Free Entry

Preview Opening + Book Signing / Saturday 15 April / 12 to 5 pm / RSVP

Finissage + Book Signing / Saturday 22 April / 12 to 5 pm / RSVP

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Gift Shop / The Isle of Man TT Races

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Dates / Wednesday 7 June 2023 / London WC2N 6BP / Limited Capacity

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The event will be opened by Christopher Richard Stein, CBE, English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter, and his brother, Professor John Stein, Neuroscientist, Emeritus, University of Oxford.

Followed by short talks from Professor Michael A Crawford, BSc (Edinburgh), Ph.D. (London University), FRSB FRCPath, Founder of The Mother and Child Foundation, and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and Evolutionary Historian and Author, David E Marsh.

Dates / 2022
Thur 20 October / Invitation Only
Fri 21 October / Free Entry / 11 to 18hr
Sat 22 October / Free Entry / 14 to 19hr
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

Exhibition Enquiries / photography@proud.co.uk

'Fassine have a restrained yet wonderfully defined palette. Oppressive yet artful music of an electronic bent, the three-piece sit in a wonderfully British lineage of pop futurists.' Clash Magazine

'Forge' is an intriguingly cinematic, psychedelic art-rockin’ work that should prick the ear of curious listeners.' Prog Magazine

'Sonically there’s a real sense of chiaroscuro on Forge, swelling, airy moments of light that battle and merge with grainy undercurrents of shadows and doom.' Aesthetica

You are cordially invited to attend the exclusive album listening party and artwork exhibition of Fassine’s latest
album release ‘Never to Heaven’.

The exhibition sees Fassine collaborate with King in a 'without boundaries' concept of music and imagery. King says of the project 'We wanted to see how close of a marriage music and imagery could create, where the song provides the soundtrack to the world I built visually’.

About Never to Heaven
Explosive and daring ‘Never to Heaven’ sweeps away all prior themes of previous album ‘Forge’. Where ‘Forge’ focussed on the unassuming heroes of society, here is the antithesis, a sister album of anti-heroes. Fassine say of the album’s themes, 'the album is not didactic, neither loving nor judging; its observational and meant to open conversation, sometimes with tongue firmly in cheek'.

About Jimmy King
With over 30-years of experience at the heart of the fashion and music industry, stylist, photographer and creative force Jimmy King hosts his first eagerly anticipated photography exhibition at Proud Galleries. Famously private, King is best known for his long-term association with the late, great David Bowie, with whom he worked with over a twenty-year period.

Hosted at London’s influential Proud Galleries and in association with Don Papa Rum.

Guest Photography Contributors / Eddie Cochran's Lost Locker Collection / Ernest C. Withers

Date / Tues 3 May to Sat 25 June 2022 / Free Entry
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

Press & Exhibition Enquiries / photography@proud.co.uk

‘Looking back, I realised that I had witnessed and captured part of the birth of rock ’n’ roll.’ Lew Allen

An exclusive exhibition shown for the very first time in London, the collection offers rarely-seen vintage and modern prints of stunning images captured by Lew Allen. Shot in Cleveland and New York from 1956 to ‘58, Allen’s work features Elvis Presley and a stellar assemblage of early rock ’n’ roll icons such as The Everly Brothers, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon and Buddy Holly. His lens embodies one of the last links to visually document those early days when rock was just beginning. This remarkable work takes you back to a time before these rock pioneers rose to legendary status.

A ground-breaking show brings together a comprehensive selection of photography prints, delving into a wonderful and nostalgic bygone era that captured the meteoric rise of the ‘King of Rock’; The year was 1956, a defining year for Elvis Presley, with the singer being on the brink of superstardom. In January, his first number one hit Heartbreak Hotel was followed by his first album topping the charts in March. The landmark gig that Lew Allen serendipitously captured on film took place a couple of months after Presley's world debut on the Ed Sullivan Show, and just days after the premiere of his first blockbuster film, Love Me Tender. Elvis influenced and paved the way for the early ‘Rock Party' bus tours, when musicians travelled by bus, helped each other creatively, carried their own stage outfits and equipment and were backed by the local orchestra. These bus tours were truly the first integrated shows where the artists travelled together regardless of their race or background. Lew Allen photographed two of these ‘Rock Party' bus tours.

‘Elvis was a church-going, gentle, kind, considerate, back-woods country kid. Polite beyond words. That is how I remember him because of the way he interacted with me. That was my Elvis.’ Lew Allen

'I attended Lew Allen's exhibition in Liverpool with his nephew Bob Shatten. To me, the importance of any good photograph is firstly that it stops you, then, in looking at it, you can set inside and be in the room, on the stage, behind the three little girls with ribbons in their hair. That is the power of good photography.’ Mike McCartney 
 
About Lew Allen
Currently residing in America, Lew Allen received a Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1961 and studied with photographers Minor White, Ralph Hattersley and attended lectures from Ansel Adams. Lew Allen’s photography was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London -in conjunction with a BBC documentary featuring his story of Elvis. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery selected his work for their permanent collection.

Dates / December 2021 to 9 April 2022 / Free Entry
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

Proud Galleries presents the photographer's Fashion, Celebrity and Tokyo Underground series. An exhibition inviting the viewer to delve into multiple themes depicting stylish, intimate and playful colour and black and white portraiture.

David Stetson is a gifted photographer, designer and film director. He launched his career in his native city of London and eventually moved on to shoot in multiple cities across the globe. He has worked for Christian Dior, Max Factor and Givenchy, and his photographs have appeared in many leading fashion magazines. He is also highly acclaimed for his portraiture photography work depicting icons.

David Stetson's artistic sensibility and impressive portfolio has earned him photography awards, global magazine and television interviews, and has lectured at global photography institutes. David's fine art photography work has been exhibited on numerous occasions at leading galleries in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Cologne.

Date / 12 December 2021 / Invitation Only
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

Proud Galleries hosts fashion and celebrity British photographer, David Stetson, who recently featured at Photo London 2021. After establishing a successful career in London during the 1970’s, then decades residing and shooting in New York and Tokyo, Stetson returned to London and exhibited a carefully curated selection of his fine art photography from his fifty year career spanning three continents.

All fine art photography prints available to purchase in various format sizes and hand signed by the photographer.

Picture David Stetson & Javier Robledo © Joaquin Trigueros

Date / October 2021 / Invitation Only
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

We are pleased to share ARTE's insightful piece about Blow-Up featuring Proud Galleries. British fashion model, Jill Kennington, best known for her appearance in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film, met with legendary photographer David Montgomery. Together they spent a joyful afternoon at our gallery space with ARTE and David Stetson in central London reminiscing about Swinging London and Blow Up.

Photography work on display: David Montgomery, Duffy, Michael Joseph, Norman Seeff, Andrew Birkin, Brian Aris, Jerry Schatzberg, Terry O'Neill, Mark Shaw, Lew Allen, Adrian Boot & David Stetson.Bring inspiration into your lifestyle, contact us to add any of these fine art photography prints to your collection.

Picture David Montgomery & Jill Kennington © David Stetson

Date / October 2021 / Invitation Only
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

'Have you heard the news? We are proud to be partnering with @proudgalleries to present the winning works for this year’s competition in their beautiful gallery space.' Equal Lens

After the success of last year's competition Two Meters of Separation, Equal Lens is holding a 2021 Photography Competition. This year they are asking women and non-binary people to use their creativity to enter a photograph/s that celebrates joy from a cultural perspective.

Temporarily Closed / Free Entry
Venue / London WC2N 6BP

Discover our carefully curated selection of Pop culture photography captured by legendary names including Terry O’Neill, Douglas Kirkland, Norman Parkinson, Bill Wyman, Adrian Boot, Chris Stein, David McCabe, Brian Aris, David Montgomery, Jerry Schatzberg, Markus Klinko, Andrew Birkin, Lew Allen, Michael Brennan, Stephen Wright, Paul Joyce, Dixie Dean & Mark Shaw to name a few.

Date / 12 September 2021 / Invitation Only
Venue / London WC2R 0JJ

We are elated to have been invited by Photo London 2021 to host an Artist Talk with David Stetson at the Strand Palace Hotel in London. David's fine art photography work has been exhibited on numerous occasions at leading galleries in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Cologne.