What’s On
From artist exhibitions and talks to creative workshops, screenings and book launches we host an array of events that bring photographic art creators and fans together to learn and connect. All of our events are free unless stated otherwise.
ETERNAL SOLACE: The Exhibition / kendrafilmz
kendrafilmz is a 19 year old emerging photographer from South London. Her debut solo exhibition "Eternal Solace" explores how she uses photography as a visual record for pivotal moments in her life & marks an important milestone in her photography journey so far.
Social media handles
@kendra.ui @kendrafilmz
Paul Walsh, Walking With Strangers / Barry Falk, In Search of Amnesia - joint book launch and book signing
Paul Walsh / Barry Falk Walking With Strangers / In Search of Amnesia Joint book launch and book signing
Paul Walsh and Barry Falk are both members of the MAP6 Collective, a group of 10 photographers who have been working together for over 14 years creating projects that explore people and places, from as far afield as Moscow and Lithuania to Wales and the Shetland Islands.
Paul Walsh is a British photographer whose work is derived from his lifelong passion for walking. His personal work examines the relationship between walking and photography, creating projects drawn from the physical, psychological and historical experience of being in natural or urban landscapes. Paul’s work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions in the UK and abroad, and his first book 'Walking With Strangers' was recently published by Another Place Press.
Barry Falk is a UK based photographer exploring a range of subjects related to the psychological sense of self. He has documented places that have undergone collective trauma, focussing on Eastern Europe to consider both his own personal history and explore how certain locations hold a sense of collective grief related to the Jewish narrative of loss. He is currently exploring nostalgia linked to the fascination with the former GDR. Barry has exhibited within the UK and internationally. He has recently published his first book ‘In Search of Amnesia’, published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg.
Both photographers touch upon a number of interconnected themes, including exploring sacred pilgrimages sites, collective memory and personal loss, transgenerational trauma and religious identity. With both book projects the theme of connecting with others has been key: for Paul it was encountering and connecting with people whilst walking, who were seeking to overcome major life events and find something that was missing from their lives; for Barry it was seeking traces of a once vibrant Jewish narrative, that has largely disappeared from Eastern Europe, by meeting the various custodians of memory: the historians, conservationists, archivists, forensic archaeologists, tour guides, academics and the visiting Jewish people tracing their family genealogy.
Paul’s project follows a number of Camino Pilgrimage routes on foot, beginning at the town of Le Puy en Velay in southern France and ending 1700km later at the town of Muxia on the west coast of Spain; Barry travelled through southeast Poland and northwest Ukraine, following the old Chasidic Rabbi routes that led to surprising synagogues and rivers and transportation lines that inevitable led to the death camps. For both photographers the act of travelling to the places of original trauma and potential spirituality, treading in the footsteps of others, past and present, led to a deep sense of connection and understanding that informed the final projects.
For this event Paul and Barry will be sharing insights into their projects, as well as signing copies of their book.
Paul Walsh - @paulwalshphotography / https://paulwalshphotography.co.uk/ Barry Falk - @barryfalk / https://www.barryfalk.com/
Emerge
Emerge - Fashion Photography Collective Exhibition. Showcasing the diverse and dynamic work of 13 emerging fashion photographers. Each artist brings a unique vision and voice, celebrating the individuality and creativity that makes this collective truly one of a kind.
Social media handles
@emergehibition_
Ancient Light Dr Melanie King Book Launch
Join us for the launch of ‘Ancient Light’, a new photo book by Dr Melanie King. All welcome!
‘What to make of Melanie King’s photographs of the stars, which make up the extensive series ‘Ancient Light’? They have none of the glamour of NASA’s enhanced astronomical photographs and cannot repeat the exactitude of the powerful telescopes which constantly map the universe. Rather, they are photographs rooted in the earth’s surface , emphasising our smallness against the infinity of space. This is what we see, insists Melanie King, aligning herself perhaps with Plath’s vision of the tired and bedraggled stars glimpsed in the night sky over England . And to see them like this, to acknowledge the power of their travelled light, we celebrate the fact that we are part of this, moving , vibrant specks in a history as long as time.’ (Professor Val Williams, 2024) ‘Ancient Light’ comprises analogue astronomical photographs of the night sky, often produced in remote locations away from light pollution.
The project arises from King’s practice-based PhD ‘Ancient Light: Rematerialising The Astronomical Image’, completed at the Royal College of Art in 2024. In this book, King highlights the connections between light emitted from deep within the cosmos, photographic materials and the ecology of Earth. The book includes an essay by Professor Val Williams and an introduction by Dr Melanie King.
The launch will include projections from the series ‘Ancient Light’ by Dr Melanie King, and sounds curated by Clementine Blue.
The book has been partially funded by Canterbury Christ Church University.
The launch has been supported by Dr Melanie King’s Patreon subscribers.
Publisher: XYZ
Books Lisbon https://www.artbooks.xyz/
Designer: Joana Durães https://www.joanaduraes.com/portfolio/
Dr Melanie King is a working class artist and curator, originally from Manchester, UK. Melanie is now based in Kent, UK. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is Lecturer In Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has recently completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art. Melanie is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. In her work, Melanie intends to highlight the intimate connection between photographic materials and the natural world. She is currently researching several sustainable photographic processes, to minimise the environmental impact of her artistic practice.
Professor Val Williams is University of the Arts London Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the London College of Communication. She is the author of many books about the culture and societal impact of photography. As a curator, she has curated and co-curated exhibitions for Tate Britain, Barbican Art Gallery, Turner Contemporary, the Photographers Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She initiated the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at UAL and was its director until 2018. Williams also teaches on MA Photography at the London College of Communication.
Social media handles
@MelanieKing
Zine Club
Print a paper keepsake at Photobook happy hour with a pro photographer. Explore the zine history and get inspired by a vast archive located in our cafe. Whilst you have a browse grab a drink from out bar. Select phone pics to turn them into a personalized keepsake. Have a drink on us as you curate your design, send to print! The fold, staple and trim.
Booking Essential, your ticket includes 1 zine
Hackney Urban Survey #08 - Boundaries with Mark Power
Photography workshop and pop-up exhibition
£175 booking essential
21st of June
9.30am - 5pm: Workshop
7.00pm - 9pm: Exhibition and Social
Hackney Urban Survey is a series of photography workshops and pop-up exhibitions created by Mass Collective to explore Hackney’s rich and diverse urban fabric, building a collective archive of what Hackney is today.
This phase of Hackney Urban Survey has reached its eighth and final chapter — and we’re closing the circle with something truly special. This time, the workshop and exhibition will take place at the Photobook Café, a renowned creative hub in Old Street, and we’re thrilled to be joined by none other than Mark Power as guest tutor.
Mark will guide us through some of his most relevant work exploring the theme of boundaries before joining us for the hands-on photography session and exhibition curation. With a keen eye for sequencing and narrative, he’ll help shape the final selection of images. This is a rare chance to be inspired by — and work alongside — one of Magnum’s most celebrated photographers. His seminal projects, including The Shipping Forecast, The Sound of Two Songs, and Good Morning, America, have deeply influenced the work we do at Mass Collective.
The workshop is open to 15 photographers, welcoming both professionals and passionate amateurs. On Saturday 21st June, we’ll spend the day immersed in talks, shooting, and group reviews — all culminating in a one-night-only flash exhibition at the Photobook Café, where each participant will showcase a print produced during the day.
THE5: A STORY OF CARE BY LETIZIA LOPREIATO
WHY AM I LAUNCHING THE5 - MY NEW CREATIVE TRADEMARK FOCUSED
ON:
CARE, LOVE, EMPATHY AND FORGIVENESS, AND WHY NOW?
The intense experience of fear linked to the diagnosis of visual impairment I received in my adulthood, triggered a radical need to get to the roots of what it meant to me to feel safe as a woman, while living with ‘disability’ and why I couldn’t feel a trace of that feeling of safety within my body until my 30s. The journey that started in 2022 it is now a three years documentary centred in THE
POWER OF STORYTELLING TO TRANSFORM OUR LIVES FROM VICTIMS INTO AUTHORS.
I therefore started researching in the realm of mythology to better portray the three main emotional domains I could sense being connected to visual impairment and to what the roots of those emotions now so violently triggered in my body truly represented:
FEAR
LOVE
CARE
FORGIVENESS
EMPATHY
AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO FATHEROOD AS THAT GIFT OF PRESENCE, OR
ABSENCE, that women could relate to throughout their adulthood, while stopping to think, rethink, or simply witness, their relationship with love and its dimension of safety. Mine within photography is a journey that has only been made possible by embracing my authentic self to its core, While uncovering the roots of fear and its relationship with what love meant to me, as e-motion, an energy in motion and constant evolution throughout our life. A process of discovery I would have never embarked on without what visual impairment brought to me five years ago, the call for unveiling, layer after layer of experience, my vocation for photography and in particular for visual poetry storytelling, as an art-form in its own right.
I most recently had my fourth eyes operation at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London where I had the luck and the joy to have been, truly, taken care of over. So after six years without being able to look into somebody’s eyes, as my capacity for face and colours recognition was being impaired more and more by my eye condition, my brain, but above all, my body as I now am aware of, started filling the gaps with other stories for me to ‘look at’, other stories for me to feel with other senses.
The stories of what my body, my mind and above all my energy were capable of, narrating to me through my entire body, what the presence of somebody else’s energy made me feel, and that guided me to slowly but surely, over the course of the last three years of shooting, to conclude my latest creative documentary.
A story that has become a form of self - guided meditation through, the now mono- sight lens, of my visual creative process.
I have been FEELING REALITY throughout my entire body, via a form of total
EMBODIED COGNITION, rather than just through my eyes and mind - mnemonic processes.
I ADDED OIL PAINTING TO MY PRACTICE LAST YEAR, AS A RESULT.
THE MAKING OF ME THROUGH COLOURS, AS I CAME TO DEFINE THIS ACT
OF SELF – DISCOVERY … This journey is now A TWO – SIDED STORY OF UNCONVENTIONAL CARE AND
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, RECEIVED AND GIVEN
Between my mum and myself, a journey which for me started during a talk I had with Claire, founder of PhotoFringe 22 while I was living in Brighton, and which then continued throughout my new project’s research studies on how:
- IFS acronym for the Internal Family System psychoanalytical model
- The neuroscience of emotions; regulation
- The neuropsychology of embodied cognition
can set someone free from the triggers of CPTSD as in Complex PTSD in adulthood.
This is the story of a lived experience FROM TRAUMA TO GROWTH, that I am now
ready to start sharing, to help others living through challenging times in their lives,
TO BUILD RESILIENCE IN THEIR FEET, AND ABOVE ALL IN THEIR HANDS,
TO LEARN AND RELEARN HOW TO TRULY HOLD EACH OTHER’S HANDS, BY
KEEPING ON MOVING FORWARD, or as my Mum would say in Italian:
- POCO A POCO -
Step by step :)
With Care, Love and Respect, Letizia Lopreiato
Zinnia's Open Crits
ALL AGES
A series of informal critical reviews aimed at building a photographic community, collaborating with one-another and sharing work!
Zinnia Collective (@zinniacollective_) are excited to share with and invite you to a series of photo based crits open to all - any age and any stage of their career!
A series of informal critical reviews aimed at building a photographic community, collaborating with one-another and sharing work!
This will be relaxed, informal get togethers to support one another while providing honest and constructive feedback.
For those looking to share work, please DM or email us with some examples of what you would like to show. We love looking at prints, however we understand not everyone can print so please don't hesitate to bring a laptop for the group to gather around and look at your work.
These will be held monthy at the fabulous Photo Book Cafe. Please keep an eye on our Instagram for any updates.
If you have any accessibility requirements please don't hesitate to email.
Will Cornelius Presents Craft of Movement
Will Cornelius is a South London-born Photographer and Director known for his bold, movement-led visuals. He has worked with leading athletes from Leo Messi to Jude Bellingham and global brands including Nike, Adidas, and Red Bull.
His instinctive approach to colour, composition, and storytelling brings energy to every frame — whether in studio or on location. Will’s calm, collaborative presence on set makes him as trusted by top talent as he is by the crews around him.
Craft of Movement is an ongoing series by Will Cornelius, exploring the beauty and intensity of physical craft. From fighters to jockeys, golfers to martial artists, the project captures athletes in motion — and in stillness — with power and precision.
Each chapter is a collaboration between athlete and crew, blending visual storytelling with deep respect for the discipline at hand. This exhibition marks the project’s first appearance in print, alongside the release of a limited edition zine.
Social media handles
@willcorneliusphotography
Open Call Exhibition and Publication Launch: JOY
Following the success of our third Open Call Love, we continue a similar rhetoric with a new theme: joy, kindness, moments of connection, and the profound beauty that makes life worth living. Seen in a time of increasing division and conflict, we want to create a space for photography that embodies openness, freedom, and the small yet powerful acts that shape a better world. We want to see captured moments that matter, whether fleeting or monumental. Acts of war, acts of love as contrasting realities that shape each individual human experience.
This was an invitation for photographers to explore the world not just as it is, but as it could be. The exhibition will see an open visual manifesto of love, joy and the radical power of kindness. Expressing how love persists in the face of struggle, joy as an act of defiance as moments of celebration, resilience, and human connection. Seeing kindness as a force of change as gestures of generosity, solidarity, and care.
Our invited guest judges Laura Conway and Victoria Sullivan have reviewed all submissions, selecting the final 35 photographers. Awarding our four runners up and best in show photographer.
As part of The Photobook Cafe’s Public Programme we aim to bring a diverse selection of photographers together, collectively representing all forms of Joy. With all submissions being celebrated and screened on the evening of theJune 26th, and the potential to be featured on The Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye Darkrooms Instagram, exposing all submissions to press and industry professionals. Alongside the final selected photographers having their photograph presented in a group exhibition and publication, with an opening night and publication launch held at The Photobook Cafe.
Best in show and our runners up will be announced June 26th 18:30 in our Gallery.
As part of The Photobook Cafe Public Programme
Supported by Rapid Eye Darkrooms
Many thanks to our guest judges: Victoria Sullivan and Laura Conway
Poster image Courtesy of: Heather Lawrence and Emma Martin
Zine Club
Print a paper keepsake at Photobook happy hour with a pro photographer. Explore the zine history and get inspired by a vast archive located in our cafe. Whilst you have a browse grab a drink from out bar. Select phone pics to turn them into a personalized keepsake. Have a drink on us as you curate your design, send to print! The fold, staple and trim.
Booking Essential, your ticket includes 1 zine
Visual Narratives Workshop with Xavi B
Transform Your Photography into a Cohesive Story
A single image can be powerful, but a carefully-edited series tells a story. If you’ve ever struggled with organizing your work, or turning a collection of images into a meaningful project, this workshop is for you. Join Xavi B., an experienced photographer and creative director, for a full day workshop designed to help you build a compelling visual narrative from scratch.
What You’ll Learn:
-The art of editing: How to select and sequence images to enhance storytelling.
- Visual narratives: Understanding rhythm, flow, and emotional impact in a photo series.
-From chaos to cohesion: Structuring a project from scattered images into a polished body of work.
-Laying out for publication: Bringing your project to life for digital or physical format.
Who Is This For?
Photographers looking to refine their editing and storytelling skills. Artists interested in publishing personal projects or wishing to get into zines or books. Visual storytellers who want to develop a stronger narrative voice.
Why Join?
Hands-on experience: Bring your own images and work through practical editing exercises. Small group setting: Small group for personalised feedback and guidance. Take-home insights: Learn techniques that you can apply to future projects. Spots are limited—secure your place now!
Xavier Buendia (Xavi B.) Is a freelance photographer, creative director and lens based artist originally from Mexico City. Now established in Brighton since 2009, Xavi works with independent clients on commercial assignments ranging from food & drink brands, to portrait and business documentary. His food photography has won a several awards early in his career. He now spends his time writing a newsletter on the creative process, helps photographers and creatives through mentoring and wishes to have enough time to work on his photo books and zine projects.
July 5th
10:30-17:30
Please bring with you between 16 - 40 photos printed in plain paper, no bigger than A6.
Please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.
£40.00
Booking via Xavi
Zine Club
Print a paper keepsake at Photobook happy hour with a pro photographer. Explore the zine history and get inspired by a vast archive located in our cafe. Whilst you have a browse grab a drink from out bar. Select phone pics to turn them into a personalized keepsake. Have a drink on us as you curate your design, send to print! The fold, staple and trim.
Booking Essential, your ticket includes 1 zine.
Workshop: An Introduction to cameraless photography techniques
This four hour mixed ability workshop will allow you to explore three cameraless photography techniques; cyanotype, lumen and cyanolumen.
Tickets can be purchased below;
Jade Smith: Pride of Britain Showcase and Fundraiser
"Pride of Britain" is an ongoing documentary photography project capturing raw and authentic portraits of today’s British LGBTQIA+ community within grassroots movements grown out of pride with ambitions to photograph most of listed prides across the UK over 200 from 2024 to 2034.
The goal is to create a broad and meaningful body of work that illustrates how Pride is not limited to one month but is a continuous and interconnected network of smaller communities. These grassroots movements form mini families, reduce stigma, and promote the well-being and mental health of the queer and trans populations in the UK today. Through this work, Smith will document the grassroots movements that have grown organically out of Pride in different parts of the UK, ranging from large cities like London and Manchester to smaller, emerging Pride communities in towns like Skegness. The aim is to show how diverse and multifaceted queer identities are in modern Britain and to educate the public about the full spectrum of LGBTQIA+ experiences.
Jade Smith is a London-based Director and Photographer. After graduating from Southampton Solent University with a BA Hons in Contemporary Photography, they moved to London and began their career as a freelance assistant photographer in various studios. Since then, Jade has progressed to working independently as a Freelance Director, Photographer, and Editor, specialising in commercial film and photography projects.
The exhibition will act as a celebration of the series, showcasing new photographs from the collection. With an aim to raise funds to print and distribute a photobook of select photographs.
Brythonic / Dylan Garcia
Brythonic is a project dealing with, time, deeptime, climate change and Britain real or mythological.
Dylan Garcia's practice deals with issues of time, history, mythology, human consciousness and how this relates to the natural world.
Dylan Garcia is a lens based artist living in southern England. He is a member of RPS (Royal Photographic Society), and OVADA (Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development Agency).
He was awarded the Daylight/Format24 Award.
He has exhibited in Rome, London, Athens, Oxford, Cambridge, Amongst other places, and at the Chester Photographic Festival (UK).
Dylans Photobook Brythonic is in the collections of the National Art Library V&A (London UK), Photo Book Cafe (London UK), Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg Sweden), PHMuseum (Bologna Italy) and the Photo Book Museum (Cologne Germany).
Dylan has a BA in Graphics (Photography) from Norwich School of Art, MA Photography from Falmouth University and holds ARPS from the Royal Photographic Society.
Social media handles
@dylangarcialensart
Book Launch "I'm A Stranger In This Country" by Frederik Ruegger
Born 1993 in Worms, Germany | Based in Berlin, Germany
Frederik Rüegger is a Berlin-based photographer whose work explores themes of identity, culture, and the human form. Frederik left his hometown at the age of 18 to move to New York, a decision that profoundly shaped his artistic perspective and creative journey. With a background spanning both art and science, Frederik completed a Bachelor of Science at the Sports University Cologne in 2016 before transitioning to photography, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the renowned Ostkreuz School for Photography in 2025.
His creative achievements have been recognized internationally, including accolades such as being a finalist in the Festival Fotografia Etica, Sony World Photography Awards, and the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. Frederik's work has also earned second-place honors in competitions by TIME Magazine & ASMP, as well as the New York Photography Awards.
Frederik's photography has been featured in prestigious exhibitions, including the 2024 Sony World Photography Award exhibition at Somerset House in London.
His publications span collaborations with esteemed magazines such as Frog Magazine and Lampoon Magazine, showcasing projects ranging from editorial pieces to his acclaimed Bodybuilder series. His work will further expand into print with the upcoming release of his book I’m a Stranger in This Country through Kehrer Verlag in 2025.
I'm A Stranger In This Country
Frederik Rüegger spent over two years visiting Great Britain and Ireland to make the photographs for his book of Roma, or Travellers’ horse fairs, I Am a Stranger in This Country. His vibrant, complex images capture all the excitement and social interaction in the country towns where Travellers traditionally meet - to display and trade horses - but also to engage in a wide range of cultural activities, including selling other goods and making music together. Rüegger’s title, l Am a Stranger in This Country reflects his status as a visitor and also that of the Travellers’ as ‘outsiders’ in British and Irish society. He was inspired, as a boxing enthusiast, by the fact that heavyweight Tyson Fury is a Roma - created a wish to document a whole way of life that is under threat from both changes in contemporary society and prejudice in a post-Brexit nationalist Britain. Rüegger’s pictures are not simply a document but a celebration of innovative and creative picture-making.
Social media handles
@frederikruegger
Zine Club
Print a paper keepsake at Photobook happy hour with a pro photographer. Explore the zine history and get inspired by a vast archive located in our cafe. Whilst you have a browse grab a drink from out bar. Select phone pics to turn them into a personalized keepsake. Have a drink on us as you curate your design, send to print! The fold, staple and trim.
Booking Essential, your ticket includes 1 drink at our bar, excluding cocktails*
London Experimental Zine Launch
In anticipation of the London Experimental screening event mid-June, we are delighted to invite you to the launch event of the limited edition London Experimental Zine. The book features imagery and words from our 40 filmmakers and artists who will exhibit their films at the 2025 event. Join us for an evening of celebration for our eclectic upcoming program and purchase a copy of the London Experimental zine. Featuring a special performance by experimental musician Seaming To, who will compose a live soundtrack to our event trailer. Seaming To is an artist, Composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Her experimental ethos and mastery across a variety of instruments has enabled her to collaborate with some of the most respected and radical artists of this decade. She has composed soundtracks for numerous short films, theatre, and dance. Monday, the 2nd June 2025. 4 PM - Late.
Social media handles
LE Website: https://www.londonexperimental.com/ LE Instagram: @londonexperimental Seaming To Instagram: @seamingto Seaming To Website: seaming.co.uk Birdhouse Brewery: birdhousebrewing.com Birdhouse Brewery Instagram: birdhousebrewery
Editions
"Please come and join BA Photography graduates from Middlesex University as they showcase their photographic portfolios, bespoke books and zines on Thursday 29th May for a launch night from 6pm - 9pm or during it's public opening on Friday 30th May from 10am - 6pm."
Lydia Goldblatt will deliver a talk on her photographic practice at 12pm on Friday 30th May in the Photobook Gallery. All are welcome.
Zine Club
Print a paper keepsake at Photobook happy hour with a pro photographer. Explore the zine history and get inspired by a vast archive located in our cafe. Whilst you have a browse grab a drink from out bar. Select phone pics to turn them into a personalized keepsake. Have a drink on us as you curate your design, send to print! The fold, staple and trim.
Booking Essential, your ticket includes 1 drink at our bar, excluding cocktails*
The First Draft / Rich Gilligan
'The First Draft' is an artistic homecoming, bringing internationally influenced work back to the roots of Rich Gilligan's creative journey and offers a contemplative look at the themes of belonging, identity, and coming of age in suburbia. The book revisits Gilligan's early projects created around Blanchardstown in Dublin which are presented as non-sequential vignettes exploring the complex relationship we often hold with the places that shape us, inviting audiences to experience a dialogue between past and present, where transient moments explore the process of coming of age. Each photograph, whether revisiting past work or presenting fresh perspectives, serves as a personal yet universally resonant meditation on how our environments shape our outlooks and identities.
Featuring essays by Ken Grant & Sue Rainsford
Published by Driftwood Editions Design and Production by an Atelier Project Print and Lithography by MM Fine Art Book Printing & Repro
Hardback, linen bound cover, 120 pages Edition of 500
Bio: Rich Gilligan is a photographer from Dublin, Ireland. He began his work making his own zines as a teenager and then went on to work as a skateboard photographer for a variety of publications worldwide. He now shoots a wide range of commissioned projects while continuing to pursue his own personal work. Until recently Rich was based in New York, but in 2020 he relocated to Wicklow where he continues to work on projects both in & out of Ireland. Previous photographic publications include Time/Line (Self Published) 2008, DIY (1980 Editions) 2012, Rituals (AAD) 2014, Burnside (Driftwood) 2014, DIY (Prestel) 2014, Town (The Salvage Press) 2018 and All Sorts Of Impossible Things (Driftwood Editions) 2022. His work has been published in iD, T Magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, Port, The New Yorker, Source & Time.
Social media handles
@richgilligan & @driftwoodeditions
Smollifox
Smollifox is a 43-page publication tracking the clandestine life of urban foxes caught on trail-cam and 35mm film. Through grainy, ghostly images printed in black ink on silver paper, the project documents foxes which navigate spaces that were never designed for them. Untameable, cunning, oddly charismatic and uninvited, the fox has always inhabited a special corner of our imagination, both historically through myth and folklore and presently as an unmovable presence lurking in our gardens and street corners.
Over the course of a summer, Tom Gullam (Director) James Pancaldi (Designer) and Tessa Kaye (Publisher) collaborated to produce a photobook that reflected the quiet power struggle between humans and wildlife. Constructed around the concept of nimbyism, (not in my backyard) where nature is continuously fenced out, the project explores human aggression towards city foxes. Smollifox is a story of survival, obsession, and the irony of a species that has no true habitat yet thrives in the spaces we leave behind. The publication is a 116x160mm litho printed, handbound and individually spray painted zine on G.F. Smith Peregrina Majestic Real Silver.
Social media handles
@_lionel_tessi_ @james.pancaldi @tomgullam
SPECTRE BOOK LAUNCH & EXHIBITION / Quentin EVRARD
QUENTIN EVRARD IS A FRENCH ARTIST, WORKING IN VUSUAL ARTS AND MUSIC. HE FOUNDED STUDIO PIGMENTS IN 2010 DEDICATED TO PIGMENT PRINTING WHERE HE WORKS CLOSELY WITH ARTISTS ON PRINT EDITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS. HE STARTED ÉDITIONS PIGMENTS IN 2015, WHERE HE DESIGNS LIMITED EDITION ART BOOKS. HE IS A DRUMMER, VINYL COLLECTOR AND DJ, A MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR ALONGSIDE HIS BROTHERS, WORKING TOGETHER AS KLINKOWSKI FRÈRES.
___
SPECTRE (SPECTRUM) A PHOTOBOOK BY QUENTIN EVRARD PUBLISHED BY ÉDITIONS PIGMENTS
THE MAJORITY OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER THE LAST YEARS IN SENEGAL AND LONDON. ALTHOUGH VERY DIFFERENT, THESE TWO PLACES, WHEN BATHED IN SPECIFIC COLORS, SOMETIMES MIRACULOUSLY ECHO ONE ANOTHER.
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SENSITIVE TO THE COLOR SPECTRUM, TO SUNLIGHT BEAMING ON ARCHITECTURE, AS I LOSE MYSELF IN THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL. MY POOR SENSE OF DIRECTION HAS OFTEN LED ME TO VISUAL TREASURES IN QUIET URBAN CORNERS, THOSE FRINGE TO WHICH I AM IRRESISTIBLY DRAWN – WHERE THE HARSH REALITY OF AN INEQUITABLE WORLD REVEALS ITSELF.
Social media handles
Kottu Senryu / Olly Burn
An ode to an island, expressed through passing thoughts and fleeting encounters.The piece is designed to be experienced as a curated journey, disassembled into individual posters and poems, or endlessly rearranged into any of the almost twenty-six quintillion possible combinations.
Social media handles
@ollyburn
Flux Exhibition
Flux is a group of Kingston 3rd-year photographers exhibiting their work this summer at Espacio Gallery. This print auction will allow people to support our fundraising and go home with some beautiful photo works. We have prints to sell, as well as donations kindly given to us and photo books that need a second home. We look forward to meeting you all on the 15th of May!
Social media handles
flux_ksa
Lineage an Exhibition in celebration of past and present staff of The Photobook Cafe
Lineage is a multidisciplinary exhibition celebrating the creative talents within Photobook Cafe.
The exhibition explores our collective heritage, featuring staff past and present. Each artist delves into their personal archive, embracing themes of lifestyle, landscape and culture.
Opening night: 14th May 6 - 10pm. No RSVP Required
Curators: Alice Campos, Becca Burn, Bluebell Ross and Emma Martin.
Poster Image: Emma Martin
'Publishing as Collective Practice' Workshop / Curated by Stigmata Publishing
This workshop explores independent publishing and radical print as tools for dismantling personal authorship and fostering collective idea-sharing. Participants will actively contribute to a collaborative publication, created as a live-printed paper scroll. Fragments of this scroll will be given to each participant to take home.
Moderated by M Lissoni, founder of STIGMATA, the workshop is divided into two parts:
(1) SHARING: A brief presentation and discussion on collective publishing practices, exploring shared ownership and the historical and spiritual aspects of printed texts.
(2) OFFERING: Participants submit images and texts (e.g., found imagery, book excerpts, personal writings) to STIGMATA’s live digital document. These contributions will be edited and printed in real-time as part of a continuous scroll. During the printing process, participants can discuss and observe the publication taking shape. Each participant will leave with a piece of the scroll, representing shared authorship.
Materials Provided
Specialist paper and thermal printer.
Outcomes
A live-printed collective publication, with fragments distributed to each participant.
What to bring
Images, text, or research to share with the group. Have digital files ready for upload to a collective Google Doc
M Lissoni is a London-based transdisciplinary artist. Their research-based practice focuses on the sacred as a tool to transcend personal authorship and embody collective ritual. Their work ponders issues of memory, cultural erasure, gender and mourning as a way of documenting the in-between. Drawing on fragments of objects, visual cultures, and traces of oral histories, they engage in decolonial forms of archiving the body, transforming these materials into installations, sculptures, prints, text, and books.
M is the founder of STIGMATA, an independent publishing and curatorial platform, operating at the intersection of print, moving-image and public programming. STIGMATA approaches independent publishing as both a collaborative practice of resistance and a medium for transcultural dialogue.
Social media handles
@s.t.i.g.m.a.t.a @__trances
Industry Talk Series with Xavi B: Commercial Work, Portrait, Food & Events
Xavier Buendia (Xavi B.) Is a freelance photographer, creative director and lens based artist originally from Mexico City. Now established in Brighton since 2009, Xavi works with independent clients on commercial assignments ranging from food & drink brands, to portrait and business documentary. His food photography has won a several awards early in his career. He now spends his time writing a newsletter on the creative process, helps photographers and creatives through mentoring and wishes to have enough time to work on his photo books and zine projects.
Social media handles
@xavogram / Xavografica on Substack
BIKE KILL BIKE MARK SEAGER
Mark Seager is a photographer based in New York City.
Originally from London UK.
He runs Tribe Publishing.
Tribe is an independent photo book publishing venture out of New York and London.
He likes bikes, dogs, travel and cooking in no particular order.
Bike Kill Bike is Mark's third publication. The book documents the annual Bike Kill event held during Halloween at a secret location in Brooklyn, NY. The bikes are crazy Frankenstein inventions built by the organisers of Bike Kill. It's a block party where the bikes are free to ride by anyone willing to try. The event culminates with bike jousting. Two tall bike riders are pitted against each other similar to medieval jousting on horses. The event usually gets shut down by the NYPD.
The photographs in the book were shot at the event on a white background. The book is accompanied by illustrations in book form depicting the chaotic day.
The book is 54 pages. 370mm x 297mm in Duotone. Softcover.
The booklet of illustrations is 10 pages. A4. Duotone.
We Drift Like Worried Fire book signing and exhibition by Peter Iain Campbell
Peter Iain Campbell is an award-winning photographer born in Edinburgh and based in Glasgow, Scotland. Working predominantly within landscape, seascape and portraiture on long form projects, Iain utilises photography to explore liminal environments that would otherwise be inaccessible, seeking to identify particular subjects that both allure and repel.
Between 2001 and 2014, Iain worked as a professional freelance photographer, while continuing to maintain a long-held interest in deindustrialisation and the changing nature of post-industrial landscapes. Having identified the oil and gas industry as Scotland’s last remaining heavy industry and one that had not been fully photographically explored, from the Summer of 2014, Iain sought and secured work onboard a Drilling Rig in the central North Sea. This became the location for his first North Sea photography project, “Starlings on Fire”. From September 2016, having worked as part of the core-crew for 2 years, Iain spent a further year working on a number of different Production Platforms and Drilling Rigs throughout the Scottish sector of the North Sea. With offshore working duties ending in 2018, Iain has continued to explore the incongruous nature of the oil and gas industry, by attempting to document the remaining Production Platforms and Drilling Rigs throughout the Scottish sector, shot from the perspective of the Platform Supply Vessels {PSVs} that service these installations.
His work has been exhibited internationally and includes the group show, “Exposure: Lives at Sea”, exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in London {2020 - 2023}.
His North Sea project, “We Drift Like Worried Fire”, was published as a photobook by ‘Another Place Press’ in March 2025. “Ask The Sea”, a Limited Edition Photo-Zine was published by ‘Another Place Press’ in June 2020. Iain was the winner in the Scottish Portrait Awards 2021 and Runner-Up in 2020.
Iain is the Artist in Residence {2024-2026} at the Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews, where he is also an Affiliated Researcher. He is a part-time Lecturer in Photography at City of Glasgow College.
Title: "We Drift Like Worried Fire" {2018-2024}
"We Drift Like Worried Fire" is a documentary photography project that considers the changing nature of the oil and gas industry in the North Sea as the region transitions away from a fossil fuel reliant industry to an offshore landscape for renewable energy production.
Partly inspired by the industrial typologies of Bernd & Hilla Becher, it is a project shaped by motion and journey, a documentary of the remaining Production Platforms and Drilling Rigs operating across the entire Scottish sector of the North Sea. At times, shot from the perspective of the Platform Supply Vessels {PSVs} that service these installations, the project also investigates the human element of this story, capturing the faces of those who work onboard these vessels for many weeks at a time, in often challenging and isolating conditions far away from home.
When the first oil and gas fields in the North Sea started to come online from the mid 1970s onwards, the bold prediction was that production across the UK Continental Shelf {UKCS} would peak during the 1980s and start to tail off at some stage in the 1990s. Few, however, speculated that fields would be operational at a viable level beyond that point, decades into the next millenium. The combination of maturing fields, fluctuations in the global price of oil and gas and an environmental acknowledgement of the need to move away from fossil fuels to renewable energies, has encouraged operators to set in motion their own decommissioning programmes. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent global pandemic, initially triggered a collapse in the price of oil and further hastened a determination to divert resources towards the renewables industry. Ports and industrial yards around Scotland, northern England and the western coast of Norway, traditionally associated with the construction of oil and gas installations in the 1970s, started investing, expanding and racing to develop the infrastructure to support the decommissioning, dismantling and recycling of oil and gas Production Platforms and Drilling Rigs, while simultaneously supporting the creation of offshore wind turbines.
Social media handles
@peteriaincampbell
‘To feel is not to be feared’ research as a catalyst workshop with Sky Dair
This workshop will explore the relationship between inspiration and our own making/thinking. Sky Dair, writer and multidisciplinary artist, will use her own experience in the process of writing her debut poetry collection, It Takes Time to Build Castles, published by Worms in April 2025 as the basis for understanding how research and culture can ease us into understanding our own feelings. It will begin with a tapping meditation, free writing and somatic stamping to shake off any stress that participants come in with. The group will then explore choosing a piece of work (any medium) they admire as a way to springboard off into their own making within an a3 fold down zine. The workshop will explore collage as a mindset rather than a specific art making style and participants will be encouraged to make the work within their zine in the format that feels most expressive for them. There will be an element of focus around writing but it will seek to expand what exists within this format and focus on expanding communication in a neurodivergent friendly way. It will close on some reflections and time given to explore what the group has made and will have plenty of time along the way for questions and informal chats about making, thinking and feeling :)
Milestone Photography Exhibition: Celebrating 1 year of Dark Room Socials
Dark Room Socials Presents: MILESTONE
One year ago, Dark Room Socials began as a small gathering of photographers. Since then, we’ve grown into a collective of over 100 members—meeting, creating, and building a space where ideas and images take shape.
To mark this Milestone, we explore moments of transformation—personal, historical, and fleetingly mundane. A milestone can be a turning point or a quiet shift, a single frame that captures the weight of change. Through this exhibition, we reflect on these thresholds, the stories they hold, and the paths they set in motion.
Join us as we celebrate a year of growth, collaboration, and the images that define our journey.
Industry Talk Series with Xavi B: Putting Together A Portfolio
Xavier Buendia (Xavi B.) Is a freelance photographer, creative director and lens based artist originally from Mexico City. Now established in Brighton since 2009, Xavi works with independent clients on commercial assignments ranging from food & drink brands, to portrait and business documentary. His food photography has won a several awards early in his career. He now spends his time writing a newsletter on the creative process, helps photographers and creatives through mentoring and wishes to have enough time to work on his photo books and zine projects.
Social media handles
@xavogram / Xavografica on Substack
FLIP SIDEWAYS ISSUE 60 LAUNCH PARTY
London Independent Photography is a community of photographers. We come from a wide range of backgrounds but each of us share the visual curiosity of looking and seeing. We are a community for the visually curious.
Since its foundation in 1987, LIP has offered the opportunity to informally show and discuss its members’ work and the wider photographic world at its 13 various satellite groups. Events are held throughout the year, including talks and workshops. Many satellite groups hold an annual exhibition and all members are invited to enter our judged and curated Annual Exhibition in London.
FLIP magazine is published three times a year and distributed to members as part of their membership fee. FLIP aims to showcase primarily LIP members’ work and to engage readers in a wider photographic dialogue. It contains no advertising, so we can use all the space for quality content.
Membership: annual membership subscription: £35 UK/ £39 non-UK
www.londonphotography.org.uk @london_independent_photography
A Photography Workshop on Photography Fundamentals & Narrative and Context
Unlock the Art of Visual Storytelling with Lavrentis Michailidis in London
Photographer and visual artist Lavrentis Michailidis is set to host A Photography Workshop on Photography Fundamentals & Narrative and Context, a three - hour immersive experience designed to help participants master the technical foundations of photography while exploring the power of storytelling, composition, and context.
Taking place in London, this hands-on workshop is ideal for photographers of all levels, from beginners looking to refine their skills to experienced creatives aiming to deepen their visual narratives.
Participants will delve into the core principles of exposure, light, and composition, while also learning how to craft compelling photographic stories. The workshop will cover various genres, including street, landscape, portrait, and macro photography, with a strong focus on how images gain meaning through context. Attendees will engage in practical exercises, live shooting sessions, and guided critiques, ensuring they leave with both technical confidence and a refi artistic vision.
Lavrentis Michailidis is an award-winning photographer whose work blends fine art, fashion portraiture, and commercial photography, drawing inspiration from Renaissance painting. He has exhibited at the Free-Range Exhibition Show (2024), been shortlisted in The Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition (2024, People Round), and published in The Amateur
Photographer magazine. His ongoing project, An Ode to the Small Project, challenges the notion that great photography depends on high-end gear, reinforcing his belief that storytelling and vision are at the heart of the craft.
Zine Club with Felix Falck-Næss
Hosted in our Gallery, using Shrimpzine technology we wanted to make a drop in style event where you can hang out, chat zines and also make one too!
All you need is a smart phone and access to the internet! Shrimpzine is a free mobile web app accessible on any touch screen device. It has been designed to make zine making more accessible!
Tickets are £25, this also includes your first zine printed, then you pay for what you print; £5 Black and White, £10 Colour (between 8 and 32 pages), 2 zines maximum.
Facilitated in our basement gallery, from 18:00-20:00.
Please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.
Industry Talk Series with Xavi B: How To Price Our Services.
Xavier Buendia (Xavi B.) Is a freelance photographer, creative director and lens based artist originally from Mexico City. Now established in Brighton since 2009, Xavi works with independent clients on commercial assignments ranging from food & drink brands, to portrait and business documentary. His food photography has won a several awards early in his career. He now spends his time writing a newsletter on the creative process, helps photographers and creatives through mentoring and wishes to have enough time to work on his photo books and zine projects.
Social media handles
@xavogram
Overlapse presents 'Thinking Like an Island' with Gabriele Chiapparini & Camilla Marrese
Overlapse presents 'Thinking like an Island' by Gabriele Chiapparini & Camilla Marrese
Join us at Photobook Cafe in the lower gallery on Saturday, 12th April to meet the artists, a duo based in Bologna, Italy. They will share background details behind making the work, in conversation with Overlapse publisher and book designer Tiffany Jones.
Talk at 5.30pm - Event till 8pm - All welcome
The work: The Island is distant in the Mediterranean sea, and 675 metres in height. It’s inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 60 people, year-round, with no hospital, no cars, no priests or police. Some islanders never consider leaving while others tried, only to return to their lives in the remote bubble. There are untold stories, complex family trees, and historical lore surrounding the community existing on loaves of hallucinogenic-laced bread.
Bound into an ‘unconventional’ book structure, Thinking like an Island reflects on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its moveable logic. Avoiding typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work considers the continuous process of identity construction; clash and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance. The experience proves to be stratified, plural and dense; a vertigo of increasing complexity.
As our economic and social systems prove less sustainable, Chiapparini and Marrese ask if the island, where everything is reduced to minimum necessity, could be an idealistic model for surviving the crises that engulf us. Their book features diary extracts, quotes from residents of the island, and photographs of mysterious landscapes and portraits. It takes a poetic, philosophical approach to comprehending the wider world through the perspective of a solitary microcosm.
The Artists: Based in Bologna, Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese are an artistic duo working mainly through photography. Bringing together their backgrounds as film director (Gabriele) and graphic designer (Camilla), they believe in collaboration as a path to transform and process individual thinking into matter for collective elaboration. In this process, they aim to use photography as a tool to visually articulate – rather than answer – complex questions.
Book published by Overlapse - overlapse.com
Softcover, 17 x 22 cm portrait 224 pages across four integrated books
Exposed sewn bindings 193 photographs, archival images and drawings
Text by Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese
https://www.overlapse.com/thinking-like-an-island/
Social media handles
Instagram @overlapse @camillamarrese @gabrielechiapparini
TBT Step Into My Office
Step Into My Office
Monotony and mundanity. Dress codes, grey partitions, blue swivel chairs.
9 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year.
Our short film and image series aim to explore the nostalgia and surrealness felt toward the office as an environment.
From London-based brand This Belongs To, in collaboration with Photographer Rosie Bell, Filmmaker Phineas Sajous and designer Alia Mehta- the collaborative project uses three office set-builds to explore our relationship to the office environment and its nostalgic nuances.
With inspiration taken from projects operating in various avenues of media, such as LA Lars Tunbjörk’s LA Office (photo series), Ben Stillars’ Severance (TV), Noebert Schoener’s Prada Archives (Fashion), we explore the proliferation of office culture within popular culture at the moment- as we question our relationship to the office environment, and how this aids or inhibits different personalities. We touch upon this using styling, set design and posing. Each of our protagonists wears the This Belongs To’s Trompe L’oeil Pinstripe Silk Suit, coinciding on its release, to retain a sense of continuity and repetitiveness through costume and styling.
Niconico presents Short Eats Book launch
Nicole Tan, Nico for short—curator of Short Eats book. Short Eats is a curated collection of written shorts inspired by a celebration of food and culture. An invitation to all forms of writers to share the tangible things we keep a grasp, to hold onto our memories, our identities, our stories. Expect a melting pot of relationships, loss, humour, horror, surrealism, love—written shorts all rooted in food. Short Eats is dedicated to uplifting East and Southeast Asian writers, spotlighting food, culture, and community. Proceeds will be donated to ESEACC—a charity supporting the East and South East Asian community.
Featuring— MF Wong,Vivien Chan, Elaine Chiew, Iris Du, Suyin Du Bois, Jessie Jing, Becky Chiew Mee Hoh-Hale, Jenny Lau, amyjrobinson | 愛美, Anna Sulan Masing, Choon Young Tan, Natalie Tan, Jiye Lee, Sean Wai Keung, Anna Cheung.
Social Media
London Asian Theatre Industry Networking
London Theatre Industry Networking Night is a dedicated space for Asian theatre professionals and enthusiasts to connect, exchange insights, and break industry barriers. Whether you're looking for career advice, visa guidance, or collaboration opportunities, this event offers direct access to industry insiders who can help you navigate the theatre world.
Meet like-minded creatives, learn about the Global Talent Visa (GTV), gain real-world industry advice, and promote your work in an open and supportive environment. Join us for an evening of meaningful connections and career growth in London’s theatre scene!
Social media handles
@mujiantheatre
Anxious To Please: Erotica Literature Reading event
Erotica Literature Readings
As part of the fundraiser for her upcoming photobook Anxious To Please, Ottilie Landmark is hosting an intimate Erotica Literature Reading event, set within the gallery amidst her exhibition.
Join us for a sensual exploration of erotic literature, where six cross-disciplinary artists will each share a personally selected piece of erotic writing—be it fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. The readings will offer a rich variety of voices and perspectives on desire, intimacy, and human connection.
After all the readings, we’ll dive into a moderated discussion on the impact and relevance of erotica in artistic practice and everyday life.
The event will conclude with an open Q&A session.
Panelists
● Anastasiia Fedorova (moderator)
● Jack O’Brien
● Ajamu X
● Max Disgrace
● Black Venus
● Ottilie Landmark