U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox and Karen Knorr

Opening at Les Rencontres d’Arles
Palais de l’Archevêché

7 July–5 October 2025

Plus upcoming book signings, exhibition tour and artist talk

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) opens next week at Les Rencontres d’Arles! It will be an exciting and busy launch week, with an exhibition tour, artist talk, plus two book signings. Click ‘Read More’ to see full event details.

Following in the tracks of Berenice Abbott and her colleague/assistant Damon Gadd (also accompanied by Sara Gadd), Karen Knorr and Anna Fox set out in 2016 to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1 during the age of Trump. Along the way Fox and Knorr searched for a sense of what is happening today and how that differs from what Abbott and Gadd found. Using their iPhones, digital SLRs and a Phase One medium format camera, they photographed small towns, people, drugstores, cafes, diners, hotels, motels, farms, factories, street signs and advertisements.

Exhibiting at Les Rencontres d’Arles
7 July–5 October 2025

Arles Book Launch: Librarie du Palais
Thursday 10 July, 3-4pm

London Book Launch: The Photographers’ Gallery
Thursday 24 July 2025, 6-8pm

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s upcoming publication, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), published by Trolley Books, will be launching at Librarie du Palais in Arles on 10 July, 3-4pm. It will be launched in London at The Photographers’ Gallery on 24 July, 6-8pm. Available to preorder now! The project will be exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles from 7 July–5 October 2025 at Palais de l’Archevêché.

Anna Fox and Karen Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns on this extended road trip from Key West in Florida to Fort Kent in Maine.

Photo London
Somerset House
15–18 May 2025

Works on view with Sundaram Tagore Gallery (Booth G11) & in London Lives

Tonight, 15 May:
Karen Knorr In Conversation with Rut Blees Luxemburg, hosted by Chloe Grimshaw
The House of KOKO, Camden at 7pm

Photo London‘s tenth edition opened last night at Somerset House and runs until 18 May! Karen Knorr will also be participating in a talk this evening as part of the VIP programme at The House of KOKO, Camden, 15 May, 7:00pm – 8:00pm. Karen will be in conversation with photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. The talk will be hosted by Chloe Grimshaw, an architect, collector, and journalist.

Karen Knorr’s work will also be on view at the fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Booth G11, alongside other gallery photographers, including Robert Polidori, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, and Edward Burtynsky.

Works from Belgravia (1979-81) will be on view in London Lives, Photo London‘s special exhibition to celebrate its landmark tenth edition. Curated by renowned

Photo London
Somerset House
15–18 May 2025
VIP Preview 14 May

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Booth G11
&
London Lives Exhibition

Photo London‘s tenth edition opens at Somerset House 15–18 May, with the VIP Preview on 14 May. Karen Knorr will be exhibiting at the fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Booth G11, alongside other gallery photographers, including Robert Polidori, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, and Edward Burtynsky.

Works from Belgravia (1979-81) will be on view in London Lives, Photo London‘s special exhibition to celebrate its landmark tenth edition. Curated by renowned critic and author Francis Hodgson, this special anniversary presentation gathers work from over 30 artists whose creative responses to the city reflect its intensity, diversity, complexity and vibrancy.

Karen Knorr will also be participating in a talk as part of the VIP programme at The House of KOKO, Camden, 15 May, 7:00pm. Karen will be in conversation with photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. The talk will be hosted by Chloe Grimshaw,

White Conduit Projects
8–1 June 2025
Private View 7 May, 6–8pm

Opening 8 May at White Conduit Projects in London, Shifting Perspectives showcases the work of three photographers inspired by their experiences in Japan. Karen Knorr will present selections from her ongoing Monogatari series, which has been exploring Japanese heritage and culture since 2011. Alicia Dobrucka and Olivier Richon will present works that express their sense of taste and vision through still-life photography, created during their residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) in 2016.

When we temporarily relocate to another country, the scenery of our everyday life changes dramatically, as two cultures, languages, and landscapes coexist in our consciousness. Experiencing a foreign country firsthand differs significantly from the knowledge we acquire through mass media. In this context, we connect with our new environment as individuals, rather than being defined by our origins, customs, practices, or political backgrounds. This experience creates a liminal space, free from the confines of anthropological studies, where new creative ideas can flourish. The works in this exhibition produced in “No-Place,”as defined by French philosopher Marc Ogé, are truly original and transcend the clichés of the Orient, offering valuable modern documentary insights.

London Lives
Photo London at Somerset House
15–18 May 2025
VIP Preview 14 May

Karen Knorr is delighted to be exhibiting works from her series Belgravia (1979-81) in London Lives, Photo London‘s upcoming special exhibition to celebrate its landmark tenth edition. Curated by renowned critic and author Francis Hodgson, this special anniversary presentation gathers work from over 30 artists whose creative responses to the city reflect its intensity, diversity, complexity and vibrancy.

Housed across both Embankment East and West Galleries of Somerset House, London Lives brings together a dazzling cast of artists who have shaped — and continue to shape — the visual identity of London. Highlights include seminal work from Karen Knorr, David Bailey, James Barnor, Nadav Kander, Mary McCartney, Nick Knight, Joy Gregory, Hannah Starkey, Christian Marclay, Rut Blees Luxemburg, and many more. The exhibition also features bold new commissions from Heather Agyepong, Jermaine Francis, and Hannah Hughes.

Karen’s work will also be on view at the fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Booth G11.

Also coming up:

Dallas Art Fair
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Booth A4
10–13 April 2025

Expo Chicago
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Booth 138

24–27 April 2025

A selection of Karen Knorr’s work will be available to view at two upcoming art fairs this month with Sundaram Tagore Gallery – Dallas Art Fair and Expo Chicago.

In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries.

U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott)

by Karen Knorr and Anna Fox

Les Rencontres d’Arles
7 July–5 October 2025

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox will be debuting their collaborative project, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), at Les Rencontres d’Arles this July.

In 1954, photographer Berenice Abbott journeyed along the length of U.S. Route 1, capturing the road, its towns, and inhabitants. From Florida motels to Maine potato farmers, Abbott memorialized communities up and down the East Coast. During this trip, Abbott shot more than four hundred 8×10-inch photographs, and over two thousand smaller images using her Rolleiflex camera, representing her largest portfolio of photographs devoted to a single subject. In 2014 after the publication of David Campany’s book, The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip, Anna Fox and Karen Knorr decided that they would make collaborative road trip together based on Berenice Abbott’s Route One.

Fair Warning Art Auction in Aid of Future Dreams Breast Cancer Charity

2–13 March 2025

Karen Knorr has donated a print of The Grand Monkey Room (3), Château de Chantilly, 2006 (from the series Fables) to Future Dreams’ Fair Warning Art Auction. The auction is raising funds to help deal with the urgent need for care for those diagnosed with breast cancer. Figures are rising and this amazing charity funds support, research and awareness of early symptoms that can save lives.

Future Dreams was founded in 2008 by mother and daughter, Sylvie Henry and Danielle Leslie. By a cruel twist of fate, they were both diagnosed with breast cancer, Danielle aged just 35 and a mother of three young children. Tragically both women lost their lives to secondary breast cancer within a year of each other in 2009. Their legacy lives on in Future Dreams and the thousands of women the charity supports every year. The charity offers a wide range of in-person and online services, providing practical, emotional and psychological support for those diagnosed with breast cancer, funding vital secondary breast cancer research, and promoting breast health awareness.