Shooting the Tate Modern

The Tate Modern, the UK’s no. 1 museum for modern and contemporary art, on the South Bank of the Thames in London is a favourite location for Street Photographers. “Done to death”, perhaps, but popular for a reason. This post documents a particularly good haul of images I collected during a single day of shooting (in fact just a couple of hours).

On the way to one days photography at the Tate — Crossing the Millennium Bridge from St Paul’s to the Tate

4th October 2018 late summer’s day, schools had restarted, tourist numbers had started to drop, and London was reclaimed by those who live and work there. Safe to go back to the Tate.

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Back End of the Turbine Hall

The Turbine Hall is the vast atrium at the centre of the museum that is used as an exhibition space for outsized installations. Even when completely empty this area is architecturally impressive and photogenic. I love the colours and sense of scale in the following image:

Pastel colours of the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern — Viewed from the first floor bridge. The museum’s offices are clearly visible opposite.

Exhibition on the Floor of the Front end of the Turbine Hall

Generally, the exhibitions that make use of the Turbine Hall, the main entrance to the museum, are vast installations such as the Superflex swinging ball over stripey carpet that I photographed in March of this year. However, on the 4th October there was an altogether lower key exhibition of a few paintings that received almost no publicity.