Past Exhibitions

2003 to 2023

Highlights

• In 21 years TPOTY has staged 44 major exhibitions of the work of photographers from around the world, attracting millions of visitors.
• Despite the pandemic, TPOTY staged a covid-safe outdoor exhibition at new London venue, Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross from the end of September to early November 2020 and in February 2021 at the Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, UAE.
• In 2018 and 2019 the exhibition was seen by over two million people in its location at London Bridge City in central London, next to City Hall and close to Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast.
• In the same year, the exhibition debuted at the World Heritage Site in Sintra, Portugal and at Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah and Dubai taking the total audience for the year to about 2 million people.
• A quarter of a million people saw the Travel Photographer of the Year exhibitions in London, Hull, Malta and Beijing in 2016 and 2017.
• A five year partnership with the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London, saw the Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition become a firm summer favourite with many visitors to London, 200,000 visiting the exhibition over these five years. Each year saw record attendances and TPOTY consistently featured in the TimeOut top 10 exhibitions in London. In 2016 the exhibition moved to Greenwich.
• The first touring exhibition went to the ‘Birthplace of Photography’ in 2015 with a five week outdoor exhibition at the National Trust’s Lacock Abbey in England.
• TPOTY exhibited at the British Airways London Eye on London’s South Bank during the summers of 2005 and 2006 with an estimated 10 million visitors seeing the exhibition on the walkway by the express ticket office on the South Bank.

Future Exhibitions

February 2024 – Xposure International Photography Festival, UAE

March 2024 – The Photography Show, UK

February 2025 – Xposure International Photography Festival, UAE

Past Exhibitions

2023 – World Photography in Focus, Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, UK

2023 – Seoul, South Korea

2023 – Xposure International Photography Festival, UAE

2022 – Chester Cathedral, Chester, UK

2022 – Granary Square , Kings Cross, London

2022 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah

2021 – Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London

2021 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah

2020 – Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London

2020 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah

2019 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah

2019 – London Bridge City, London

2018 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah

2018 – City Walk, Dubai

2018 – Sintra, Portugal

2018 – London Bridge City, London

2017 – HIPFest, Princes Quay, Hull

2017 – Stockwell Street, University of Greenwich in Greenwich, London

2017 – UK City of Culture, Princes Quay, Hull

2016 – China Millenium Monument, Beijing

2016 – HIPFest, Princes Quay, Hull

2016 – St James Cavalier, Valetta, Malta

2016 – Stockwell Street, University of Greenwich in Greenwich, London

2015 – Royal Geographical Society in London

2015 – Lacock Abbey near Bath

2014 – Royal Geographical Society in London

2013 – Royal Geographical Society in London

2012 – Royal Geographical Society in London

2011 – Royal Geographical Society in London

2010 – Adventure Travel Live in London

2010 – Daily Telegraph Cruise Show in London

2009 – Adventure Travel Live in London

2008 – London’s Exposure Gallery

2008 – Focus on Imaging in Birmingham

2007 – Focus on Imaging in Birmingham

2007 – Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show in London

2006 – British Airways London Eye on London’s South Bank

2006 – Focus on Imaging in Birmingham

2006 – Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show in London

2005 – British Airways London Eye on London’s South Bank

2005 – Focus on Imaging in Birmingham

2005 – Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show in London

2004 – Focus on Imaging in Birmingham