The MOP Foundation has opened its doors to a 140-image show tracking Bailey’s genre-shifting eye from Swinging London to today, and entry is free, but only until September 14.

A Coruña’s waterfront warehouse is suddenly pulsing with the quicksilver energy of the Sixties. “David Bailey’s Changing Fashion” has arrived at the Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation, filling concrete walls with more than 140 photographs, many never seen in person. The doors swung open on 28 June and will stay that way through 14 September, with no ticket price at the gate, a rare gift in a summer of blockbuster culture.
Bailey’s path to this moment began in 1960 when editor Ailsa Garland ushered him into the pages of British Vogue. His lens loosened fashion’s corset, turning models into characters and photographers into celebrities. Critics still point to his early natural-light portraits as proof that personality can outrank polish.

Inside the gallery, a crisp grid of the famed 1965 Box of Pin-Ups shares space with studies of Jean Shrimpton, Kate Moss and a young Mick Jagger. The images date largely from the 1960s and 70s, a period Bailey’s son and studio manager Fenton calls “the brilliant time.” Newly printed frames of previously unpublished work sit beside seminal hits, underscoring the restless pace that keeps Bailey looking forward.
The show also tells a story about its host. Since 2021 the MOP Foundation has given fashion photography a stage, first with Peter Lindbergh, then Helmut Newton and Steven Meisel. Marta Ortega Pérez’s program signals a belief that pictures once bound to glossy paper can live powerfully at gallery scale.

Elsewhere, vitrines recreate Bailey’s studio, once likened by Diana Vreeland to a nightclub, complete with travel souvenirs, contact sheets and battered cameras. The clutter reveals a man forever chasing surprise, proof that the scene behind the shutter can be as electric as what appears in front of it.
Exhibition details
“David Bailey’s Changing Fashion,” Centro MOP, Muelle de Batería, A Coruña, Spain. Open Monday–Friday 10:00–21:00, weekends 11:00–21:00. Free admission. Runs until September 14, 2025.