One of the world's most private photographers is finally showing his work

Left: A black and white, slightly grainy photograph of a shirtless young man with tousled hair kneeling on a bed, holding a glass and wearing patterned trousers with a large decorative belt. Right: A black and white full-body shot of a woman with short, dark hair standing by a canal, wearing a dark, long-sleeved mini dress with a white collar and patterned tights.

Steven Meisel is, without question, one of the most influential fashion photographers walking this Earth today. He once shot 28 Vogue covers in a single year. He discovered Stella Tennant. He shaped the visual language of Italian Vogue for decades.

And yet, the American almost never exhibits, never posts on social media, rarely gives interviews and has published very little. He is, paradoxically, both omnipresent and invisible. Which makes his new show, Photo London: Steven Meisel: Master of Photography, feel like quite the event.