The National Army Museum is delighted to be displaying a unique, visual account of the life of the soldiers during a critical phase of recent operations in Afghanistan. Corporal Mike Fletcher travelled through Afghanistan with The 3 Para Battle Group as the Media Operations Photographer for the Helmand Task Force.

In collaboration with NRC Handelsblad newspaper, the Rijksmuseum is organising the ninth photography exhibition centred on the annual 'Document Nederland' photography assignment. With the title Bare, hidden poverty in the Netherlands is the theme for this year's exhibition.

The fifth exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery's acclaimed Reaching Out, Drawing In programme, Cherish looks at the family photo album from the perspective of Chinese families living in the UK today. The exhibition is on view through 11 March 2007, admission is free, the exhibition is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art presents 60 works revealing the transformation of the French capital city and the art of photography from the mid-19th to early 20th century. The exhibition, organized from the perspective of a flâneur-an aimless wanderer, will be on view in the ground floor photographs galleries of the West Building from February 11 through May 6, 2007. It includes photographs by Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Brassaï, Alfred Stieglitz and others.

'Being single, and having some money, and having the time - having no men, you see' was how the writer Ivy Compton-Burnett rather bluntly explained why so many women were writing fiction after the First World War. The photographic portraits in this display were made in the period 1920 to1960 when the majority of fiction published was written by women. This phenomenon can also be explained by increased access to formal education and society's growing acceptance of the working woman.

The National Portrait Gallery presents a display of photographs by Emma Hardy of exceptional young Britons. Chosen from a variety of fields and disciplines, each individual represented has been selected on the basis of their talent and inspirational achievement. Timed to coincide with Enterprise Week and part of the Make Your Mark Campaign, the display and its accompanying website is an integrated project between photographer Emma Hardy, writer Jenny Dyson and the National Portrait Gallery.

As part of the National Portrait Gallery's 150th Anniversary celebrations, this display presents new photographic acquisitions to the public for the first time. Coinciding with this year's Photographic Portrait Prize which showcases the best in contemporary portraiture, Photographs 1965-2006 looks back over five decades of excellence in a celebration of photography from the recent past and the present.

The work of a seminal figure in the history of American photography comes to Tacoma Art Museum in Paul Strand: Southwest. The rural and exotic Southwest landscapes Strand captured in the early 1930s were embraced as a symbol for American identity and artistic independence. The exhibition opens January 27, 2007, and will remain on view until May 23, 2007.

The first major photographic exhibition at the British Museum presents extraordinary aerial photographs of archaeological and heritage sites from across the globe taken by the Swiss photographer Georg Gerster. These awe-inspiring images range from natural phenomena such as Uluru in Australia to man-made wonders such as the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq or the Great Wall of China and will allow visitors to take a 'world tour' of the great monuments of human civilisation.

The High Museum of Art will host an internationally touring exhibition of more than 175 photographs by Annie Leibovitz, one of the most celebrated photographers of our time. "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005" encompasses images Leibovitz created on assignment as a professional photographer as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends.

The exhibition takes its name from advice given to Ruth Gruber by photographer Edward Steichen. But looking at her body of work-her journalism, books, photography, and activism- it is clear that with or without that advice, Ruth would do nothing short of observing and interpreting the world around her with an open heart, a keen eye, and the desire to see what is best in the human spirit.