Keep off the Grass
Peter Robinson

04 October 2025 to 10 January 2026

Having covered fifteen World Cups, numerous Olympics and worked as FIFA’s lead photographer Robinson was recently described by the New York Times as “arguably the world’s greatest football photographer. This exhibition in his home city is the largest gallery survey of his work to date.   

Born in Leicester in the 1940s this exhibition marks a homecoming. Across more than 50 years of photography Robinson has shot his share of images of pitch drama, action shots and goals, but his eye has always been drawn to the what is happening beyond the pitch. Beyond the game itself his photographs show the social and political environments that host the sport, the games and their fans.

This exhibition looks at his work as a kind of backyard anthropology of the biggest sport the world has ever seen. His images capture the multitudes of human experience orbiting football from the rituals of local fans through to the global giants of the game and beyond. He shows the interweaving of individual daily lives with the game of football. From these intimate images he pans out to capture the games played in the streets and the fierce pride in the local the team. And then beyond this images that capture the interweaving of the game and geopolitical tectonics.

There is plenty that is wryly funny to be found in Robinson’s work and an incredible array of the stars of football pitch. But alongside these undeniable pleasures there is also a profound seriousness to Robinson’s work, his observations of our changing world are closer perhaps to the images of Walker Evans than to traditional sports photography.