Morrison Hotel Gallery Partners With Abbey Road Studios for Music Photography Awards, Previewed With Exhibit in New York

Morrison Hotel Gallery, which represents more than 125 photographers and their archives, has announced that it will partner with Abbey Road Studios for its annual Music Photography Awards. This 2025 edition will see the MPA presenting a series of launch events, taking place in New York, including a special exhibit featuring MPA Icon award winners (and legendary music photographers) Henry Diltz and Jill Furmanovksy.

The curated collection will be on view from May 28 through June 3 at Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, with an exclusive reception on May 29th.

Diltz shot more than 250 album covers since the 1960s, including the Doors’ classic “Morrison Hotel” album (above), as well as iconic photos of Jimi Hendrix (pictured below at Woodstock), Neil Young, Kurt Cobain, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin and countless others. 

Furmanovksy documented the punk, new wave, ska, and reggae of the 1970s up through the Brit-pop boom of the 1990s. She has had a long-term working relationship with Oasis, who will tour this summer for the first time since 2009. Her contributions to this MPA exhibit will focus on her Oasis images — including the image of Liam Gallagher above top, taken at the group’s performance at Slane Castle in Ireland in 1995 — along with photos of the group recording in Abbey Road Studios.

The collection will also include work by photographer and director Christaan Felber (whose photo of Mac Miller appears above), who was nominated for an MPA in 2024, and Rolling Stone’s Deputy Photo Editor Sacha Lecha (whose shot of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong appears below).

For more information and to view the collection, visit https://morrisonhotelgallery.com/collections/abbey-road-mpa-henry-selection 

Now in their third year, the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards “celebrates, showcases and supports the global community of music photographers and the images that create and shape culture, connect music fans to the artists they love, and define music iconography for generations to come.”