MK Gallery announce exhibition of acclaimed photographer Paz Errázuriz

Milton Keynes Gallery will be hosting an exhibition dedicated to the works of acclaimed photographer Paz Errázuriz.

The first UK solo exhibition of Chilean photographer Errázuriz will present over 170 works in colour and black and white from the 1970s to the present day, with the photographs part of the Hidden Realities of Chile collection.

Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look is open 19 July – 5 October 2025 at MK Gallery.

Errázuriz took her camera onto the street during General Pinochet’s dictatorship that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1998.

The photographs recorded prohibited subjects and breaking regulations and curfews imposed by the military regime.

In 1981, she was also one of the founding members of Chilean Association of Independent Photographers – providing a network of support to help distribute ‘unofficial’ images. Errázuriz often spends months or years within a community, building trust and getting to know her sitters before creating her work.

Often working in series, her photographs include men and women in psychiatric institutions, trans communities, sex workers, individuals sleeping unprotected in the street and the Kawésqar, an indigenous group whose culture and language are under threat. Other series feature circus workers, protesters, boxers, wrestlers, children and elders and dancers.

Errázuriz’s work can be seen in important international collections including Tate, MoMA, New York, the Guggenheim and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. She has received various national and international prizes, including the PhotoEspaña Prize in 2015, the year she also represented Chile at the Venice Biennale. In 2014 she received the Pablo Neruda Order of Merit, the highest cultural and artistic recognition given by the Chilean government.

This exhibition has been organised by Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE, in collaboration with MK Gallery.

MK Gallery said, “We would like to thank the Anglo-Chilean Society and the Chilean Embassy, London, for their generous support and guidance.”