Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

3books and 2posters launch by missing everything I knew. press. "As a Situation Arises" by Makoto Itakura and Ryoya Minami. "i waited outside" by Kaichi Terashima. "kiss kiss kiss" by Kohki. A photography poster by Yasuhiko Iida and a collage poster by Ryoya Minami.

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Katy Lane is a Welsh artist living in Berlin who began working as a music photographer as a teenager, documenting life both on and offstage. She has always taken a diaristic approach, and in the past few years has self published two books of her photo diaries, dictated by intuition and mood.

This Is The Place is her personal photographic diary exploring the fragility of sobriety and mental health. The project started during a period of restless movement, as she navigated her own shifting mental landscape after becoming sober in 2016, and was completed at the end of last year.

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Edita Liessner is a Czech photographic artist based in Paris whose work investigates the nature of humanity, identity and belonging. Informed by a background in art curation and liberal arts, her practice combines intuitive observation with a considered conceptual approach.

The grammar of alienation is counterintuitive. Its forces are mysterious, yet manifestations painfully palpable. The complexity of being seen is in tandem with the anxiety of being overlooked. Culturally rooted in the fabric of our everyday lives, it finds its shape and form in crowds and behind glass. The loneliness of a large city is an emotional map with loose knots and heightened sensations. In such an environment, how do we find a connection?

Short Stories on a Long Theme ponder human disconnection in the contemporary world and our fundamental need to belong through colour theory. Combining geometric studio still-lifes and documentary photographs that have been simplified to a form, the series lyrically investigates feelings of alienation and solitariness. Although in proximity, loneliness transforms human subjects into shapes, movements, shadows, and reflections to guide the viewer‘s gaze and simultaneously support their meaning-making process. The series contemplates not only the relationships of colour and their harmonies but also social interactions. Similarly to colours, those could be deceitfully misleading.

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@editaliessner, @lostlightrecordings

Beyond the Counter
A Staff Exhibition by Photobook Cafe & Rapid Eye Darkrooms
Opening: 21 May 2026, 18:00 – Late

London, UK — Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye Darkrooms are proud to present Beyond the Counter, a multidisciplinary exhibition celebrating the creative practices of past and present staff across both spaces. Opening on 21 May from 18:00 until late, the exhibition brings together a diverse range of works that reflect the extended community behind these two interconnected hubs.

Following a lineage of staff-led exhibitions that foreground the creative voices within the organisation, Beyond the Counter builds on this legacy by shifting focus toward the often unseen or informal practices that exist alongside daily work. Previous exhibitions have explored collective heritage and personal archives, highlighting the depth of talent within the community. This new iteration expands that dialogue, embracing an open theme and a broader range of disciplines.

Spanning photography, print, moving image, installation, writing, and experimental forms, Beyond the Counter resists a singular narrative. Instead, it offers a snapshot of a living, evolving network—one shaped by shared spaces, overlapping histories, and the rhythms of working life “Beyond the Counter.”

The exhibition title gestures toward both a physical and symbolic threshold: the café counter, the darkroom reception, the point of exchange between artist and audience. It reflects the dual roles held by many contributors, as facilitators, technicians, baristas, and artists—and invites audiences to encounter these practices outside of their usual contexts.

With its open framework, Beyond the Counter encourages unexpected connections between works, allowing personal, political, and experimental approaches to sit in conversation. The result is a collective portrait of a community defined not by hierarchy, but by proximity, collaboration, and shared investment in creative practice.

The opening night will take the form of an informal gathering, welcoming friends, collaborators, and the wider public to celebrate the people who have shaped and continue to shape The Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye Darkrooms.

With a very special evening DJ/Live performace setby Grunt Govan.

About Photobook Cafe & Rapid Eye Darkrooms
Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye Darkrooms are longstanding spaces for photographic practice and analogue hubs in London. Together, they support artists and audiences through exhibitions, workshops, access to facilities, and an ongoing public programme dedicated to image-making and visual culture.

Press Release

The Photobook Café Gallery is delighted to present work by image maker Mia Cinamon. Impressions is a collection of black and white and colour portraits, created over a month last year.

Cinamon’s previous exhibitions The Royal Exchangers London [2023] and Dichroic Lab, Mexico City [2024], prompted her to deepen the connection with her subjects and she invited herself into their own spaces where she captured an intimate, sometimes awkward exchange for the image.

A handbound book Impressions self-published by Cinamon for her final year show at Central Saint Martins [BA Fashion. Communication and Promotion, 2025] is also presented.

We are Undisclosed Collective, a group of photography university students in our final year of our course fundraising for our graduation show in Copland’s Gallery, in Peckham on 16th-19th July. We are hosting a Photobook auction here at the photobook café where you’ll be able to bid on photobooks from great photographic minds such as Anna Fox, Giles Price and Matthew Finn. Our auction will also involve some work from students.

We hope you’ll come down on the 19th May to help support our collective in reaching our goal as well as bidding on some great photographical works!

@undisclosed.collective

We’re pleased to host a series of informal talks that celebrate photobooks, zines, and independent publishing. We welcome individuals to join us on select Monday evenings. These sessions offer a relaxed and engaging space for creators to share the stories, processes, and ideas behind their work. This will be an opportunity to share knowledge and build relationships with those interested in publishing.

Talks take place on select Monday evenings between 18:00–21:00.

Guests can RSVP. Please also note that our basement gallery does not have step-free access and involves 25 steps.

Talks begin at 18:30, with an opportunity to meet the photographer and view their publication during the event. There will also be time to ask the photographer questions during the second half of the Talk.

Humanscape by HU Yue

HU Yue (胡悦) is a London-based visual art practitioner, curator, editor, and translator. She holds an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Westminster and is currently finishing practice-based doctoral research with the University of Plymouth. Her interdisciplinary research situates the dynamic relationship between humans’ interventions and natural landscapes in the context of environmental and climate change. Her artistic investigations often engage with artificial landscapes, ecological imaginaries, and the sensory experience of a place. Through curating and walking practices, she explores the broader contemporary visual art world and reimagines the landscape as a site of negotiation, memory, and transformation.

Humanscape: Tianjin 39.0851° N, 117.1994° E presents the main body of work from HU Yue’s PhD research titled ‘Humanscape’ in Geopoetics — A Visual Diagnosis of Reclaimed Landscapes. Rooted in her intimate and intuitive walking in the alienating newly reclaimed lands of her hometown Tianjin, the project applies multi-sensory perspectives of “seeing”— Watching, Listening, Asking, and Feeling— borrowed from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). These TCM diagnostic approaches are applied across drone photography, cyanotype printing, microscopic imaging, videography, and sound recording. Through her “earth writing” inspired by geopoetics studies, the project introduces ‘Humanscape’ as a terrain shaped by perception, emotion, and imagination.

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Home - UCL Photography Society Annual Exhibition What is home to you? T

his year’s UCL PhotoSoc Annual Exhibition explores the theme of home through the work of its members. As their works suggest, home is not simply a place but a relationship: between the material and the imagined, the body and the space, the present and the memory. From physical rooms to emotional landscapes, it takes many forms across the exhibition.

For some contributors, home is rooted; for others, it is carried or longed for across distance. It appears as a sanctuary, a site of negotiation, a private archive of memory, and a threshold between who we have been and who we are becoming. We invite visitors to step into these intimate interpretations of home.

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@uclphotosoc

Karolina Burlikowska is a Poland-born, London-based photographer specialising in still life. Karolina’s childhood spent surrounded by nature sparked a lifelong fascination with its magic, which continues to inspire her work today. Her new zine Terra Incognita revisits this fascination through a series of collage work.

Zine design: Salina Studio

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https://www.instagram.com/karolinaburlikowska/ https://www.instagram.com/studio.salina/

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Zinnia Collective’s Monthly Open Crits

Zinnia Collective is a photographic duo made up of Edward Brilliant and Emily June Smith, who run events, exhibitions, and workshops. 

The Open Crits are informal, friendly sessions where photographers come together to share work, get feedback, and connect with one another.

They’re open to photographers of all ages and at any stage of their career. The focus is on conversation, collaboration, and creating a supportive space to talk about work.

We know photography can be a pretty lonely practice at times, and making real connections in the industry isn’t always easy, especially if you’ve recently finished university. 

These sessions are about bringing people together and building a sense of community.

If you have prints, feel free to bring them along, but it’s not essential. Laptops are very welcome so everyone can easily view and discuss each other’s projects.

The emphasis is on openness, learning from one another, and connection, rather than formal critique.

Book your spot here;

https://www.edwardbrilliant.com/

https://www.emilyjunesmith.com/ )

We’re pleased to host a series of informal talks that celebrate photobooks, zines, and independent publishing. We welcome individuals to join us on select Monday evenings. These sessions offer a relaxed and engaging space for creators to share the stories, processes, and ideas behind their work. This will be an opportunity to share knowledge and build relationships with those interested in publishing.

Talks take place on select Monday evenings between 18:00–21:00.

Guests can RSVP. Please also note that our basement gallery does not have step-free access and involves 25 steps.

Talks begin at 18:30, with an opportunity to meet the photographer and view their publication during the event. There will also be time to ask the photographer questions during the second half of the Talk.

Between Vision and Thought, introducing 兼兼 magazine07 - One Day in Berlin by Holger Biermann and Christian Reister

Holger Biermann and Christian Reister are Berlin-based photographers who have known and respected each other for years. They realised a joint project with the images for this publication. From midnight to midnight on 21 June 2025, they independently documented their city. Together, they exposed 13 rolls of black-and-white film. Around 470 images were created. For the publication Jian Jian 07, the focus was not on juxtaposing two individual perspectives, but on merging them into a photographic duet.

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Holger Biermann @holgerbiermannphoto, Christian Reister @christianreister

Think you know Glastonbury? Welcome to the early morning hours world when the TV cameras have been turned off and photographer Mischa Haller chronicles the characters that emerge when night turns to day. In this free-flowing, up-all-night realm, time is endless and the possibilities unlimited. For those who have been there, these dreamy portraits of dawn-dazzled night people will evoke visceral memories. For those who haven’t, they’re the next best thing.

‘Not Done Yet’ follows the 2025 publication of ‘Not Going Home’, Haller’s photographs of after-club culture in the late 1990s across Britain. Haller is a Swiss documentary photographer focusing on people, details and chance moments to show the larger picture of life.

RSVP HERE

SPRING FLIP @flipmaglondon issue launch party is on Wednesday, 15th April 2026, from 6pm at the iconic Photobook Café!

Featuring newly commissioned articles from Angela Chalmers, Bunshri Chandaria, Anusha Sugunasabesan, Eve Milner, Paul Hill and others, as well as an interview with the Japanese artist Sayuri Ichida and the winning entries from FLIP Student Competition 2026!

Let the Spring issue put a spring in your step!

Hope to see you there! London Independent Photography @london_independent_photography Cover image by ©Chloë Sastry @chloesastry

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@flipmaglondon @london_independent_photography

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Joël van Houdt is a Dutch documentary photographer whose work explores conflict, power and the everyday realities that persist within them. Between 2010 and 2022 he lived and worked extensively in Afghanistan, based for five years in Kabul while contributing to European and American newspapers and magazines.

Arriving in 2010 with little more than a hotel name and a phone number, he set out to document the consequences of wealthy nations, his own included, waging war in one of the poorest countries in the world. Over time his work shifted toward a more subjective exploration of the often surreal realities of daily life in a country shaped by decades of foreign intervention.

Most photographs in Afghanistanism were made away from assignments, during long walks through Kabul and other cities. They reveal moments of resilience, humour and generosity that existed alongside violence and uncertainty.

The book was designed by Sybren Kuiper and is self-published. During the launch Joël will speak about his years living in Afghanistan and the editing and design process behind the book.

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@joelvanhoudt