Andy Aderinto,

Chris Dawes, 

Martin Gale, 

Charlie Phillips OBE, 

Mark Tamer

Private View: 26 February, 6–9 pm
The Muse Gallery, London

The Muse Gallery is proud to present Through Their Lens, a group exhibition bringing together five photographers - Andy Aderinto, Chris Dawes, Martin Gale, Charlie Phillips OBE, and Mark Tamer - whose images offer a selective view of Notting Hill and the wider Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) through black-and-white photography.

This selection of photographs presents RBKC as a place where style, struggle, celebration, and everyday routine leave their mark. The exhibition moves between public spaces and quieter moments: intimate portraits, gestures, friendships, and fleeting encounters that shape the character of a neighbourhood as much as its architecture.

Seen together, the photographs form a layered portrait of a place in constant motion. They reveal the textures of change - in streets and shopfronts, in gathering places, and in moments of belonging and pause - while resisting a single, fixed narrative of Notting Hill. Instead, Through Their Lens offers five distinct visual languages, each rooted in close looking.

Visitors are invited to move between personal viewpoints, experiencing the borough not as an idea, but as something lived - and continually remade - in front of the camera, and to consider the ways they might create their own portraits of the borough.