Photographic Exhibitions at the Royal Anthropological Institute

The RAI has occasional photographic exhibitions in its meeting room on the 1st floor at 50 Fitzroy Street.

If you are interested in proposing an exhibition please see the guidelines for exhibitors.

Past exhibitions

Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute

Bodies in Motion

The Body Canvas Photography Exhibition

Historic imagery and the RAI: Lord Moyne’s engagement with the Asmat of Dutch New Guinea 1929–1936

Fieldwork: Anthropology in Action Around the World

Photography, Alterity & Epidemics: An exhibition of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague project

A Tale of Two Rivers: The Lower Wye and the Nubian Nile

[Re:]Entanglements: The Photographs of N.W. Thomas

Mirdu Rai: How Do I Bring You Home?

Miss Edith Durham: A deep dive into the archival collections of an early twentieth-century female anthropologist, war correspondent, artist, and writer

Citizens of Photography

Imaging the Field: Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives

GRID – anthropometric photographs and potential history

Haddon and the Aran Islands: the beginning of visual anthropology