2003 to 2024
Travel Photographers of the Year’s (TPOTY) past exhibitions have taken these awards around the world from the UK to China, In 2024 we will have our first exhibition in South America, in Bolivia, and this will be TPOTY’s 50th major international exhibition.
In 2025 we will also return to Xposure Festival of Photography in Sharjah, UAE, for the 7th time with one of the largest exhibitions at this event.
Highlights
- In 21 years TPOTY has staged 49 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.
- For the last 7 years, at the Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, UAE, and will return in 2025.
- 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
20th to 24th November 2024 – Foto Festival Manzana 1, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
20th to 26th February 2025 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
29th March to 6th July 2025 – Banbury Museum & Gallery, Banbury, UK
Past Exhibitions
2024 – The Photography Show, UK
2024 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2023 – World Photography in Focus, Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, UK
2023 – Seoul, South Korea
2023 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2022 – Chester Cathedral, Chester, UK
2022 – Granary Square , Kings Cross, London
2022 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2021 – Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London
2021 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2020 – Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London
2020 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2019 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2019 – London Bridge City, London
2018 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
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
2017 – Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
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
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