Overview

• Running 2 October 2025 to 15 February 2026, the UK’s largest Lee Miller retrospective gathers roughly 230–250 photographs alongside newly surfaced archival material.
• The exhibition traces her path from 1920s New York model to Paris surrealist collaborator, through travels in Egypt and Syria, to British Vogue assignments and frontline war reporting.
• Curators place a content warning before graphic liberation images from Buchenwald and Dachau, underscoring the ethical and emotional force of her wartime work.
• Reviews highlight Miller’s technical experimentation, including the celebrated solarisation associated with her work with Man Ray, and newly shown prints such as her portrait of Nimet Eloui Bey.
• The show builds on the rediscovery of her archive by her son, Antony Penrose, offering a deeper portrait than recent dramatizations and consolidating her legacy across art and photojournalism.