Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern
Where: Tate Modern
Address: Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Until: June 12
In a nutshell: Selfies, marketing, early ballet films and school photographs all feature in this intriguing exhibition. An impressive array of artists including Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, and Yayoi Kusama back up the thesis that performance is essential to photography.
Vogue 100: A Century of Style
Where: National Portrait Gallery
Address: St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE
Until: May 22
In a nutshell: Visiting this extraordinary journey back in time through the fashion bible's archives is like flicking at random through a copy of Vogue that you’re physically walking through. A knockout exhibition about storytelling, image-making and personalities
Where: The Photographer's Gallery
Address: 16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
Until: April 3
In a nutshell: Now regarded as one of the great pioneers of 20th century photography, Saul Leiter was known for experimenting with colour film on the streets of New York in the Fifties and Sixties. The results, as this exhibition illustrates, were glorious.
Where: Natural History Museum
Address: Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Until: May 15
In a nutshell: Curated by artist and writer Michael Benson and featuring original music by Brian Eno, Otherworlds explores the beauty of the solar system. Art and science combine in the 77 composite images on display.
Where: Imperial War Museum
Address: Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ
Until: April 24
In a nutshell: The first UK display of Eleven Women Facing War, an exhibition of photographs and film following the stories of eleven women in different conflict zones from 2001 to 2011, by award-winning British photographer Nick Danziger.
Where: Snap Galleries
Address: 12 Piccadilly Arcade, London, SW1Y 6NH
Until: March 5
In a nutshell: A collection of unpublished post-Pistols-pre-PIL-period photographs taken in London by Paris-based photographer Pierre Benain, who became friends with key figures of the Punk scene in the late Seventies
Where: The Nunnery Gallery
Address: 181 Bow Rd, London E3 2SJ
Until: March 27
In a nutshell: The German photographer's pictures of plastic everyday objects (hair rollers, kitchen utensils, drinks bottles) make reference to vanitas, an eighteenth-century genre of still-life painting.
Where: National Portrait Gallery
Address: St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
Until: 21 February
In a nutshell: The leading competition to celebrate and promote the best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world
Where: Science Museum
Address: Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD
Until: 28 March
In a nutshell: Marking the 200th anniversary of the pioneering photographer's birth, the exhibition includes the Herschel Album - the images which Cameron considered to be her finest work and which immortalise the Victorian age.
Where: Natural History Museum
Address: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
Until: April 10
In a nutshell: The very best wildlife photographs from the past year
Where: Media Space, Science Museum
Address: Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD
Until: March 28, 2016
In a nutshell: First major UK exhibition by award-winning American photographer Alec Soth
Read The Telegraph's interview with Alec Soth
Where: Imperial War Museum
Address: Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ
Until: April 24, 2016
In a nutshell: Showcases Lee Miller's startling photographs of women involved in the war effort.
Read The Telegraph's interview with Miller's son, Antony Penrose, on the subject of the exhibition.
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