Brett Rogers, the director of London’s Photographers’ Gallery, has stepped down after 16 years.
In 2012 the curator oversaw the move of the non-profit organisation to its current purpose-built five-floor premises just off Oxford Street. Earlier this year it launched the Soho Photography Quarter, including a twice-yearly programme showing photography in the local streets.
Under Rogers’ direction, winners of the gallery’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize have included Cao Fei in 2021, Mohamed Bourouissa (2020), Susan Meiselas (2019), Richard Mosse (2014) and Walid Raad (2007). This year the American artist Deana Lawson won the £30,000 award.
Rogers took over from the founding director Sue Davies, who was in the position from 1971 through to 1991.
Rogers said: ‘The Gallery has been an essential part of my cultural life since I arrived in London as a post-graduate student in 1980… Over the past three decades the position of photography has evolved from the margins of institutional recognition to becoming one of the most ubiquitous and significant art forms. The Gallery has without doubt played a significant role in this transformation, and in galvanising attention to the pivotal role technology plays within our wider, image-laden culture.’
The gallery says it aims to appoint a successor by December 2022.
