Selected group exhibitions

1972
"Four Young Photographers," Photographer’s Gallery, London, England.

1978
"Personal Views 1860-1977," British Council Touring Exhibition

1980
"From Object to Object," Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition.

1981
"Old and Modern Masters of Photography," Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1982
"Stratgies- Recent Developments in British Photography," John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
"The Sea Project," Photographer’s Gallery, London, England.
"Lichbildnisse:  Das Porträt", Rheinisches Landes Museum, Bonn, Germany

1983
"International Photography Festival," Mälmo, Sweden.

1985
"British Eyes,"  Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France.
"Tendances," Metz pour la Photographie, Caves Sainte Croix, Metz, France.
"Human Interests: Fifty Years of British Art About People," Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

1985-6
"The Miner’s World: Miners in Photography and Literature,"
The Midland Group, Nottingham. Impressions Gallery, York; and
D.L.I. Museum, Durham, England.

1986
"The Portrait Season," Impressions Gallery of Photography,.York, England
"British Contemporary Photography: Coming of Age," Houston Foto Festival, Houston, TX.

1987
"Photoworks from Great Britain," Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.
"Three British Photographers," Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, Mexico City, Mexico

1987-8
"Towards A Bigger Picture," Victoria and Albert Museum; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England.

1988
"Britische Sicht! Fotografie aus England," Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland.
"Matter of Facts: Photographie Art Contemporain en Grande Bretagne," Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes; and Musée d’Art Moderne,
Saint-Etiennes; Caves Sainte Croix, Metz, France.

1989
The Art of Photography 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Photography: 150 Years, The Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
Photography Until Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York;  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain 1945-1989, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England.

1990
British Photography From The Thatcher Years, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Arbete Pågår, Hasselblad Center, Götenborg, Sweden.

1991
Arbetets Värld, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden.

1991-2
Shocks To The System, Royal Festival Hall, London;  Northern Center for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland;  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum,
Plymouth;  Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Royal Albert Museum, Exeter.

1992
More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

1993
Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal.

1994
Documentary Dilemmas, British Council, European Touring Exhibition
Treasures from the National Museum of Photography, Science Museum, London Lowdlow

1994
Streetstyle, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1995
20 Modern British Photographs, Vicoria and Albert Museum

1996
Picturing Modernity, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
British Photography,  Matisse Museum, Nice, France

1997
Underexposed, City of Stockholm Festival , Sweden

1998
From the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1999
Some Photographs, An Independent Art, V & A Museum, London

2000
Modern Starts, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2001
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York 
Hope,  McMullen Museum of Art,  Boston

2002 
100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard, V&A Museum, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

2003 
The Photography Gallery. Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Les Choix d”Henri Cartier-Bresson, Foundation Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Foundacion Caixa, Barcelona.
125 Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art, New York The State Hermitage  Museum, Saint Petersburg; State Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
Der Fotografierte Mensch, Museum Folkwang, Essen

2006 
Beach Photography, White Space Gallery, London
Making History, Art & Documentary Photography, Tate Liverpool
In The Face of History Barbican Gallery, London
Work from the Permanent Collection  MOMA, New York

2007 
How We Are: Photographing Britain , Tate Britain, London

2008 
No such Thing as Society, Aberystwyth Arts Center, Wales. Tullie House, Cumbria, Carlisle. Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
Three from Britain, Rose Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

2008/9
Parrworld, Haus der Kunst, Munich  & Breda Museum, Netherlands
Street & Studio, Tate Modern, London &  Museum Folkwang, Essen
On Being Human, 1950-2000, Andalucia Contemporary Art Center, Seville
Photography: Methods & Materials, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2009 
Reality Revisited, Moderna Museet,  Stockholm
Home for Good, Foto8/Host gallery, NY Photo Festival, DUMBO, New York
Delpire & Cie,  Recontres D’Arles and Maison European de  Photographie,

2010
British Photohraphy from the 70’s & 80”s  National Museum, Krakow,

2011 
Aires de Jeux, Champs de Tension, Le Pavillion des Images, Montpellier
The World We Live In,  Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK

2012 
Island Stories: Fifty Years of Photography in Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Work, Rome Photography Festival, Italy
Observers: Photographers of the British Scene, 1930 to the Present, Galeria de Arts SESI, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Public Dress, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston Texas
Aperture Remix, Aperture Gallery, New York
Reality, Vasterbottens Museum, Umea, Sweden
Gallery Collection, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

2013 
Reality: Vasterbottens Museum, Umea, Sweeden
Deutsche Borse Prize Exhibition, Photographers Gallery London

2014 
Photography with Tension, Niepce Museum, Chalon sur Saone, France
Made for Magazines and Iconic 20th Century Photographs, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, USA

2015 
History is Now, Hayward Gallery, London

2016
Transiciones – From the collection of Mr & Mrs Motelay, Cirulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Photo Espana
British Subjects, Espace Francois Mitterand, Gwinzagel, 
An Ideal for Living, Beetles & Huxley Gallery, London   
Childhood, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
The Human Document: The Photography of Persuasion, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry, UK

2017
A History of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Hoston,, May – Oct
Tread Softly, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK,  May – Sept
Torbay Intervention, Torbay House, Torbay, Devon,  July- Oct
A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK,Sept Dec

2018
Idea of the North, Baltic Center, Gateshead, UK, May - September
Distinctly Britain, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
Artists and Society, Tate Modern, London, October 11 - January 27, 2019

2022
Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, May 5 - September 4
20/20: Chris Killip/Graham Smith, Augusta Edwards Fine Art, London,  October 11 - November 6

2023
This is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.