The Evening Standard remarks on the status of London in the world of the photography gallerists, curators, dealers and collectors…

“The recent, and 11th-hour, cancellation of this year’s London fair, Photo-London, is symptomatic of the lack of importance attached to the medium here. The festival’s organisers were drafted in from Paris and, without local knowledge, scheduled the event for a spring weekend in the middle of the empty City [ was to have been 15th-18th May, which as far as I know is not a Bank Holiday? — Ed. ], thereby guaranteeing its failure. Last year’s event at Old Billingsgate drew just 7,000 people. As Martin Parr, perhaps Britain’s only household name art photographer, says: “London is by far the lowest in terms of pecking order when it comes to photography.”

The Pulse London art fair is also cancelled. Apparently such cancellations are partly because the credit crunch in America means that almost no U.S. galleries would have attended.

Elsewhere in British photography, at least one M.P. is taking notice of the growing harassment of street photographers.