During London's Photo Week, as part of our Photography in Focus series, we popped into Phillips auction house for a private view of their photography sale - and a discussion of photography market with Phillips specialists. 

As a leader in the field, Phillips’ Photographs sales offer a balanced selection of classic and contemporary works that achieve strong results across all genres of the medium, including works by 20th century masters, such as Man Ray, Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as contemporary stars, such as Hiroshi Sugimoto, Peter Beard, Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Desiree Dolron.