Market Photo Workshop
Market Photo Workshop

Exhibitions

For over three decades, the Market Photo Workshop has played a pivotal role in training photographers and showcasing photographic excellence. Our curated exhibition space fosters critical visual literacy and provides a prominent platform for emerging and established voices to engage with contemporary realities.

Featured Current Exhibition

New Storytellers: Trajectories Of Belonging

“Love is the key that carries cultures from oppression into joy. As a political force, love becomes a contract of liberation,” reflects artist Sabelo Mlangeni.

New Storytellers: Trajectories Of Belonging brings together 26 young creators whose

practices explore the many ways we belong—to place, to memory, and to one another.

Through photography and narrative, they trace connections across time and geography,

weaving intimate personal histories into broader political landscapes. From Soweto to Umlazi,

via a multitude of locations between and beyond.

RETROSPECTIVE GALLERY

Previous Exhibitions

OCTOBER 12 – NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Shadows of the City

A profound documentary collection exploring urban light, deep shadows, and transient moments within Johannesburg’s changing architectural landscape.

AUGUST 05 – SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Resilience in Portraiture

Honoring the legacy of social documentary photography through intimate, black-and-white portraits highlighting personal resilience.

MAY 18 – JULY 15, 2023

Abstract Landscapes

A visual journey that deconstructs natural vistas into stark lines, conceptual forms, and monochromatic experimental photographic mediums.

Past

exhibitions

01 January 2023

MPW gallery

01 January 2023

MPW gallery

01 January 2023

MPW gallery

OUR EXHIBITIONS

The Market photo workshop programme of the Republic of Azerbaijan and has since become one of the country’s leading cultural institutions in the field of contemporary art. Its primary mission is to collect, exhibit, and promote works by Azerbaijani painters and sculptors from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. 

MPW gallery

Since 1989