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National Portrait Gallery
Four of the six b/w vintage London prints acquired in 2022 by the NPG are currently on display in Room 28 on the first floor, within the 1960s-70s period (‘Making the Modern World’), and will be on view there for about a year.
In addition, Dorothy’s 1942 Self-Portrait features in Women at Work: 1900 to Now, a book published recently by the NPG.
Victoria & Albert Museum
The V&A has just acquired six of Dorothy’s torn poster images for its permanent collection – see V&A Explore the Collections
Some of the latter will feature in a forthcoming book – Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage, V&A Publishing / Thames & Hudson, spring 2026.
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Two of Dorothy’s Paris photos (part of a much larger body of work owned by the museum) are currently on display in the 20th century rooms of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
ANU, Tel-Aviv
A substantial selection of Dorothy’s work features in 20&20 A Lens of Her Own: 20 Distinguished Pioneering Women Photographers and 20 Contemporary Distinguished Women Photographers, which opened at ANU, Museum of the Jewish People, in Tel-Aviv in June 2025 and continues well into 2026.
Farleys House and Gallery, Sussex
Between 2 April and 26 July, Farleys House and Gallery in Sussex will be playing host to a major exhibition of Dorothy’s images of women. For further information about the exhibition and to find out more about her close personal connections with both Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, click here.
Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Ascona
Between 19 September 2026 and early January 2027, the Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Ascona in the Ticino, Switzerland will play host to an exhibition of Dorothy’s work, giving special emphasis to the photographs she took there from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, when she first discovered the delights and challenges of working outside the portrait studio. For more information click here.
We were saddened to hear of the recent death of Martin Parr, one of the many younger photographers Dorothy encouraged through her involvement with the early days of The Photographers’ Gallery. One of the last filmed interviews Dorothy gave was with Martin – to watch this, click here.