What’s On
Explore our upcoming exhibitions, photobook launches, and events. Whether online or in the Gallery, our programme spans artist talks, creative workshops, screenings, and photobook showcases, bringing together photographers, enthusiasts, and fans to learn, share, and connect.
Attending Our Events
All of our events are free unless stated otherwise, we have optional RSVP for each event, but we welcome walk- ins. Paid or private events can be booked below or via the organiser.
Access
Please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps and bright white light.
Zine Workshop
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!
Wenmiao Xin Solo Exhibition: Somewhere Along the Way
Artist: Wenmiao Xin
Curator: Wenjun Xie
Leaving home is often imagined as a single act of departure, while belonging rarely begins upon arrival. Instead, it unfolds gradually through new relationships, unfamiliar ways of living, and the quiet repetition of everyday life.
Somewhere Along the Way brings together a selection of photographs by Melbourne-based artist Wenmiao Xin that explore identity, belonging, and transformation. Having lived away from China for the past nine years, Xin reflects on how living elsewhere gradually reshapes our sense of self. Through new relationships, unfamiliar cultural contexts, and everyday encounters, she came to understand herself in new ways.
Xin now describes herself as a lesbian, a feminist, and a woman of colour. These identities are not predetermined paths, but points of orientation through which she understands herself. Her photographs trace the subtle process of becoming, as a sense of self gradually comes into being.
When we begin to inhabit another place, are we discovering a new home, or a new way of belonging?
About Artist：
Wenmiao Xin is a visual artist and photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Working across photography and moving image, her practice explores intimacy, identity, gender, sexuality, migration, and cultural belonging through constructed visual narratives. Drawing on personal memory and lived experience, Xin examines the intersections between cultural frameworks, queer identity, self-representation, and contemporary diasporic experiences.
Social Media Handles
Artist @wenmiao_xin, Curator @gwendrawimme
Opening: 21/08/2026, 18:00-20:00.
Public Programme: 22/08/2026, 15:00-17:00.
Public Programme; Somewhere Along the Way Community Conversation
Zine Workshop
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!
Solo Exhibition: Whisper by Dana Peiyi Wang
Is love a connection like a gentle whisper? While society often demands loud declarations, genuine support frequently exists quietly in the unstated promise: I am here, and I am here for you.
Whisper, a photographic solo exhibition, focuses on the profound strength and resilient connections rooted in womanhood within London communities. It explores what it truly means to love and be loved beyond conventional boundaries, appreciate the quiet acts of care that keep people moving forward.
The exhibition is deeply rooted in Wang’s personal experience of relocating to the UK six years ago. Far from home, she discovered that life is often sustained not by grand gestures, but by the subtle, everyday presence of friends and chosen families. This lived reality echoes Bell Hooks’s All About Love—which critiques how patriarchal structures isolate care within the rigid confines of the traditional nuclear family. In response, Whisper deliberately steps away from the romanticised mainstream to document the intergenerational bonds and platonic lifelines Wang has witnessed and leaned on.
Capturing shared intimacy in domestic spaces, the project treats physical gestures and quiet companionship as visual whispers—soft, unguarded expressions of solidarity.
Ultimately, Whisper challenges Amatonormativity—the pervasive assumption that exclusive romantic partnerships are life's ultimate goal. By elevating these quiet, platonic, and familial bonds, the exhibition celebrates "undefined feelings": love and connections that lack traditional institutional labels, but are no less powerful, essential, or true.
About the Artist Dana Peiyi Wang is a lens-based artist working across photography and moving image. Her practice examines environmental connections, migration, cultural memory, and female subjectivity through observational and socially engaged methodologies. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Tate Britain Late, Aesthetica Art Prize, Open Eye Gallery, and Women’s Photo Festival.
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@dana_iee
Book Launch: Rapture - A Journey to the Lost World by Mateusz Wrazidlo
Nestled within the dark heart of the South American interior is a place which evades all forms of human comprehension. A raw, primordial world still thriving in stubborn isolation despite centuries of humankind’s daring exploits. The Guiana Shield - a gateway to some of the oldest geological formations on our planet, nearly two billion years in the making, filled with ancient landscapes and relic life forms straight out of a fantasy novel. When in 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his famous story about a group of explorers visiting a mysterious plateau, it was given a new name - “The Lost World”.
„Rapture” is a sumptuous letter of appreciation dedicated to a realm where fantasy and reality intertwine. With expedition photographs, personal reflections and quotes from historical accounts of explorers, the book takes us on a journey through an incredible diversity of environments and landscapes, ranging from the stifling humidity and heat of the Amazon selva, through sun-scorched grassy highlands, the cold, misty cloud forests, to the mystical, dark and eerily silent summits of the tepui plateaus.
About the Author
Mateusz Wrazidlo is a Silesian engineer, photographer, author and, above all, an avid naturalist. Born in 1993 in Rydułtowy in the south of Poland, he has co-organised and participated in numerous expeditions to Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Svalbard, among many others. The Guiana Shield remains his primary field of focus for research and photography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.
@mateusz_explority
Charity Exhibition: Tupendane by Maisie Laddie
'Tupendane, meaning "let us love one another" in Swahili, is more than a title; it is the sentiment that inspired this body of work.
Created across multiple countries and communities, these photographs offer a window into the people and places that have shaped the artist's journey. Throughout their travels, they have been welcomed with warmth, kindness, and openness. These encounters revealed a shared humanity rooted in empathy, generosity, and connection, regardless of culture or geography. Through this exhibition, the artist invites viewers to embrace the spirit of tupendane in their own lives: to lead with compassion, remain open, and seek connection in unexpected places.
All profits from the exhibition will support the Tupendane Africa Foundation, founded by the artists friend, Rosaline Mushi. The foundation is dedicated to creating lasting positive change by addressing gender inequality, discrimination, and poverty. Through education, vocational training, community development, and advocacy, it empowers individuals to build fulfilling lives and strengthen their communities.'
Between Vision and Thought, introducing 兼兼 magazine08 - EDGE by Renaud Castaing
Jian Jian is an independent photography magazine dedicated to black-and-white photography, built around the idea of 兼. This Chinese character represents duality—not as multitasking, but as a seamless blending of vision and thought.
Jian Jian — Issue 08:
EDGEEDGE is a conversation between places, people, and cultures. Drawn from over 25 years of travel, Renaud Castaing's photographs reveal quiet echoes across continents, reminding us that what connects us is often found in the poetry of everyday life.
For over 25 years, Renaud Castaing has travelled the world capturing the quiet poetry of everyday life. His photographs seek meaning in fleeting moments, revealing the beauty and resilience of cultures beyond cliché.
Curated by Renaud Castaing @a_rc_her
@a_rc_her / @uhm.publishing
ISSN 2977-6465
No booking required, just come along!
Zine Workshop
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!
Book launch: On the Periphery
On The Periphery Exhibition and Book Launch Duncan James
On The Periphery began in 2015 when Art Director Duncan James noticed a group of Mods gathered outside a North London café on Remembrance Sunday. Intrigued, he returned with his camera and was met with a warm reception that led him to discover a thriving contemporary Mod scene. What started as a chance encounter became a decade-long documentary project.
Duncan’s photographic practice is rooted in building genuine connections with the people he photographs. Influenced by Alfred Eisenstaedt’s belief that “it’s more important to click with people than to click the shutter,” he prioritises trust, friendship, and mutual respect. This approach has enabled him to create candid, unintrusive images that authentically reflect the lives and experiences of his subjects.
Despite being welcomed into the community, Duncan maintains the position of an observer rather than a participant. The title On The Periphery reflects this perspective—documenting from the edges while remaining closely connected to the people and culture at its heart.
The exhibition and accompanying book celebrate ten years of photographing contemporary Mod culture across the UK. Through honest and carefully observed imagery, the project captures the enduring appeal, individuality, and sense of belonging that continue to define this vibrant subculture.
madmodsandacamera.com @madmodsandacamera
Opening Friday 18th 18:00-21:00
Saturday 10:00 - 22:30
Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
Portfolio Reviews
Curious for some objective feedback on your work? Making new face-to-face connections can be powerful. Making this time to discuss your labour of love also gets you, your choice of (non-alc.) beverage from The Photo Book Café AND a PRINT copy of photoED Magazine. Advance bookings required.
-A coffee & 30 minute Portfolio Review with a magazine publisher might just be what you need right now!
Portrait event and book launch: THE DRESS by Malindi Jo Walker
THE DRESS is an ongoing project from Malindi Jo Walker that began in 2019. It’s pretty self-explanatory - each person is photographed in the same dress, posed however they’d like, with the image composed in a similar fashion, all taken on the same camera. What’s come from the project is a greater conversation about our perceived and projected identities in today's world. The first volume of the project was self published in 2024 before she left the United States, capturing the chapter of her life spent in San Francisco. Participants of this event will have their portraits taken to contribute to the second volume of this project's publication, broadening the conversation of the project to Walker's community in London.
You can reserve your spot for a portrait session through this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1996225180251?aff=oddtdtcreator
Malindi Jo Walker is a multimedia artist based in London whose work aims to dissect and amplify the intimacies of relationships, spanning across the interpersonal and interconnected. Walker uses photography, family archives, moving images, and installation to find the truth of these connections through their reality and fabricated iterations. She recently finished her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art and plans to stay in London continuing her work.
Social Media Handles
@malindijo
Zine Workshop
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!
Talk series: 'Photo-Rituals for Disappearance' by Marilene Ribeiro.
Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning Brazilian visual artist, researcher, and activist whose practice engages with environmental and human rights issues through a decolonial lens rooted in the Global South. Her work explores the political agency of photography and its potential as a tool for social and environmental change.
Named by PhMuseum as one of the 12 women photographers to watch worldwide, Ribeiro has exhibited internationally and has had her work featured in publications and platforms including The Guardian, LensCulture, Photoworks, VIST Projects, The Royal Photographic Society Journal, Viens Voir, and Luna Cornea.
Ribeiro was nominated for the Prix Pictet 2025 and has received numerous international awards, including the Earth Photo–Photoworks Award (Global), the PHotoEspaña Discoveries Award (Spain), the POY Latam Carolina Hidalgo Vivar Photography Award (Latin America), the Royal Photographic Society Awards (UK), and the Marc Ferrez Photography Prize from the National Arts Foundation (Brazil). She has also been shortlisted for the Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles Photobook Award (France), the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award (UK), and the Pierre Verger Photography Prize (Brazil), among others.
She has undertaken professional training with Magnum Photos, Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London, and the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ribeiro holds an MSc in Ecology, Wildlife Conservation and Management, and a PhD in Creative Arts/Photography. She is a member of Foto Féminas and collaborates with Fast Forward: Women in Photography and the Latin America Bureau.
The evening will feature an informal artist talk and open Q&A with Marilene Ribeiro in a seated gallery setting, offering audiences the opportunity to learn more about her practice, research, and recent projects. The talk will begin at 18:30 and conclude at approximately 20:00, followed by an hour of informal browsing and discussion within the gallery.
A selection of publications will also be available to browse and purchase throughout the evening directly from the artist.
Photography Exhibition: Diamonds & Ink by Simon Martner
Simon Martner is a photographer and hand poke tattoo artist based in the Barbican in London. His speciality is to travel the world photographing diamonds and high end jewellery pieces, as well as taking analogue portraits of the people he tattoos or meets on his travels.
Simon Martner is selling his photography book trilogy "Analogue Photographs & Hand Poked Tattoos" through The Photographers’ Gallery and Rough Trade Records in London, at Galerie Arts Factory in Paris and Camera Torino in Italy.
In this solo exhibition, Diamonds & Ink, he will show his portrait and hand poke tattoo work as well as photographs from the "Skate Nepal Skate" skateboarding tour he organised in Nepal in 2016.
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@martner
Zine Workshop
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!
Still, Life with Elliott Gunn
Presented by The Photobook Cafe & Rapid Eye Darkrooms
The Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye Darkrooms are pleased to present Still, Life, a group exhibition featuring the final 35 photographers selected through our international open call.
The exhibition celebrates photographers who use the camera to capture the quiet poetry of everyday life from fleeting gestures and passing moments to intimate observations of light, objects, people, and place. The selected works explore the space between motion and stillness, presence and absence, inviting viewers to slow down and discover meaning in the ordinary.
Drawn from submissions by photographers around the world, the exhibition brings together a diverse collection of analogue, digital, and alternative photographic practices. Each image reflects a personal connection to a moment, whether cinematic or spontaneous, carefully composed or instinctively captured.
The final selection was made by guest judge Elliott Gunn, whose own practice is recognised for its candid, cinematic approach to everyday environments. His photographs transform ordinary scenes through careful attention to gesture, shadow, light, and atmosphere, making him an ideal curator for this year's theme.
Alongside the exhibition, all 35 selected photographers will be featured in a specially produced printed zine, celebrating the breadth of work exhibited. Each participating artist will receive a complimentary copy of the publication and their exhibition print following the close of the exhibition.
During the opening night, Elliott Gunn will announce the Best in Show photographers. The winners will be awarded the opportunity to present a complimentary group exhibition at The Photobook Cafe later in 2026, with printing support from Rapid Eye Darkrooms and The Photobook Cafe, alongside curatorial guidance from Elliott Gunn. Additional prizes will also be announced on the evening.
30 July 2026
6:00pm – late
The exhibition is free to attend and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
Best in Show announcements will take place at 7:00pm during the opening event.
Still, Life formed part of The Photobook Cafe Public Programme, with all proceeds from the open call directly supporting our not-for-profit programme. These funds help us maintain our free public photobook library while continuing to create opportunities for local, emerging, and established photographers through exhibitions, publications, and events.
Supported by Rapid Eye Darkrooms.
Guest Judge: Elliott Gunn
Poster images courtesy of Elliott Gunn.
Exhibition: FWENDS...
Fwends… brings together the work of Eva Louisa Jonas and Africa Barrero-Alexander, Ezra Evans and Tom Lake, Sam Gallagher and Tom Beck, and Max Southern and Ben Stezaker. The exhibition takes place at the Photobook Cafe on 28-29 July, with a private view on 28 July from 6-10pm.
Beginning with a simple invitation, Fwends… sets out to celebrate the friendships, collaborations, and chance encounters that shape artistic practice. Ezra Evans invited three artists to take part, each of whom was asked to invite a friend to share and curate a wall in the gallery. The exhibition unfolds as a series of small exhibitions within an exhibition, where each pairing reflects its own conversations, affinities, and ways of working.
More than presenting finished works, Fwends… is interested in the relationships that make them possible. It offers the gallery as a space for generosity, hospitality, and the possibility of future collaborations, where new friendships might emerge alongside old ones.
There will also be drinks, possible toasties (TBC), and the inaugural World Magnet Pétanque Championships, with glory, prizes, and absolutely no guarantees of sporting excellence.
Social Media Handles
@ezra_evans @thomasdlake @evalouisaj @africa_barreroalex @thomas.beck_ @samgallagherphoto @benstezaker @s.thrn
Zine Workshop
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!
Book Launch: Through People & Color: Japan
Japan: Through People & Color is the result of a journey that began more than ten years after my first visit to Japan.
The project explores the Japanese communities, where tradition and technology coexist in quiet harmony as part of the same visual narrative. From the peaceful villages of the Japanese Alps to the endless movement of Tokyo, the book follows the people, color and architecture who give shape to the everyday life.
My work begins with ordinary moments. Through composition and color, I seek to reveal the quiet beauty that often goes unnoticed, transforming everyday scenes into moments of contemplation. Rather than just documenting a place, I am interested in how people inhabit it and how their presence and colors shapes its identity.
About the Author: Julio Pastor Cebria is a documentary and street photographer from Valencia, Spain.
His work explores the communities across the world, moved by the interaction between art and the societal momentum, his work intends to transform the beauty of everyday life through composition and color into images that invite contemplation.
Drawn to the subtle interactions between people and the spaces they inhabit, where the familiar reveals new meaning.
´´Brittle Literary Objectivity´´
Social Media Handles
@juls.pastor
Exhibition + Zine Launch: Lost Found by Otto Masters & Kiara Gourlay
Lost Found
Lost Found emerged from a photographic still life exploration of objects: everyday, forgotten, sentimental, edible, natural, and antique. Through playful arrangements, familiar forms are removed from their usual contexts and brought together into something beautiful, absurd, and unfamiliar. The project is rooted in a shared fascination with making and finding beauty within oddity, decay, and the mundane. Objects are found, rescued, purposefully bought, and pulled from everyday places, allowing each photograph to tell its own surrealist story.
Lost Found developed as an evolving collaborative process, a way to make images freely and follow unexpected ideas. Shot on medium format film over two years, the project opened up a space for play and discovery. Presented as both a physical exhibition of original hand-printed works and a photographic zine, it reflects an ongoing process of building images together and evolving our own aesthetic identities.
About Otto Masters
Otto Masters is a photographer based in London whose work moves between fashion, still life, fine art and documentary. Working between observation and construction, his images often capture moments in between, with a focus on shadow, atmosphere and the fleeting beauty of the everyday.
About Kiara Gourlay
Kiara Gourlay is a London-based prop stylist and prop maker whose practice explores objects through material contrast, humour and visual tension. Her work often sits between attraction and repulsion, creating still lives that feel both seductive and unsettling, while examining how objects can simultaneously hold emotion, memory, and discord.
Social Media Handles
@otto.masters @kiaragourlay
Shifting Boundaries solo exhibition by Jiayue Wang
Jiayue Wang is a London-based artist born in China. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies from Newcastle University and a Master of Arts in Film Studies from University College London (UCL).
Jiayue works with experimental moving image, photography, and intermedia art. Her practice is rooted in the experience of living between cultures, examining how identity, belonging, and memory are formed, unsettled, and remade across cultural boundaries. Working through physical collage, layered image-making, and spatial sound, she constructs environments where documentary and invented imagery coexist, holding open the space between what is remembered and what has already begun to disappear.
Jiayue has been developing her practice since 2019. Her work has been shown internationally across the UK, USA, China, and Greece, at venues including the Glasgow Gallery of Photography and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, where she held her first solo museum exhibition. She has been featured in Artron.net and Visual Art Journal.
I work with photographs that have already been taken, pulling them apart, layering them over one another, letting one image bleed into the next. What interests me is what happens in that process: where a building becomes a current of water, where a document becomes something closer to weather. I use sound and space to extend this, building environments where images are not fixed but ongoing.
I have lived between two places for most of my adult life. I don't think of this directly when I'm working, but it is there, in the way I handle images, in what I choose to keep and what I allow to go. A photograph taken in one place looks different when you are somewhere else. Memory behaves the same way.
Zine Workshop
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!
FOUND: Home Book Launch
Founded by Niharika Pathak and Noam Dee, FOUND is a cross-cultural photobook publishing platform and artist collective based between Japan and the UK.
We bring together photographers to explore publishing as a space for dialogue, exchange, and connection - extending beyond the book as a purely physical form.
What began as a small collaboration between students from the London College of Communication, UAL and Nihon University in October 2024 (supported by LCC and Daiwa Foundation), has grown into an evolving community, shaped by shared curiosity and a desire to work across borders. Since then, we have continued to build on this foundation by creating opportunities for creative collaboration and cultural exchange between the two countries.
Join us in this ongoing conversation through our upcoming publications, research, and workshops!
Social Media Handles
@foundbooks.co , @picniharika , @noamdee_
NEXT TO ≠ REAL
NEXT TO ≠ REAL is a contemporary photography exhibition exploring how images shape reality, and how people continue to hold themselves together within it.
Rather than focusing on a simple divide between truth and falsehood, the exhibition looks at the unstable space where images, memory, archives, technology, and performance come close to the real, yet never fully become the same thing. It asks what comes to be seen as real, what gains credibility, and how reality is constantly organised through visual culture and lived experience.
Bringing together photography-led practices alongside installation, archival materials, and moving image, the exhibition features 14 artists who approach this shared question in different ways. Through unstable perception, fragile evidence, rewritten histories, performed selves, and acts of protection and endurance, NEXT TO ≠ REAL invites viewers to reflect on how images do not simply represent reality, but actively shape how we see, remember, and live within it.
UCA Farnham Photo Showcase
UCA Farnham Photo Showcase brings together work by a selection of this year’s graduates from the BA (Hons), MFA, and MA Photography programmes at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. Responding to interests as varied as toxic algorithms and the unfathomable scale of the cosmos, this exhibition floods Photobook Cafe’s gallery space with innovative photography from 16 emerging talents.
Opening night: Friday 10th July, 18:00–21:00; exhibition continues until Sunday 12th July.
Laiba Anjum – @_virtuo_so
Alex Barker – @alexbarker_photo
Izzy Campion – @izzycampionphoto
Liv Cooper – @livcooperphoto
Jerry Garcias Marques – @jerry_marques_photography
Niranjan Ghale – @nirriphotographs
Gem Harris – @gemharrisphoto
Harvey Hunt – @harveyhuntphotography
Lauren Meaney – @laurenmeaney
Archie Rice-West – @archierw.photography
Aliénor Sarrazin – alienor.photography
Kat Taylor – @ekatchrome
Erin van der Borgh – @erinvdb.photography
Eve Williams – @evewilliamsphoto
Lewis Wightman – @3rdeyeaprtture
Runjie Wu – @wuroonjay
Book Launch: Communion by David Morrison
Communion (2023-) is an archival project examining Irish identity at the beginning of the new millennium. Its participants have been asked to recall making their First Holy Communion, a key rite of passage in traditional Irish life and a lens through which the project’s enquiry is focused. The collected interviews shed light upon the country’s conservative past; its increasingly globalised future; and the frenzied Celtic Tiger greed of the transitionary period in question.
Social Media Handles
@david.ed.morrison
Drawing With Roots with Charlie Butterfield
Participants will carve their own beeswax moulds and plant wheatgrass seeds inside them, using root growth as a slow, living form of image-making. They will leave with a planted mould to care for at home, where the final image will gradually emerge over the following two weeks as the roots grow into the carved design.
Magazine Launch: Anomaly Papers by Collective Anomalies
Anomaly Papers is a new publication from Collective Anomalies, an independent studio led by Louise Healy, working across design culture, critical theory and creative futures. Collective Anomalies runs panel talks, symposia and summer schools alongside its publishing, with a growing network of graduates, colleagues and collaborators. Anomaly Papers is the studio's first attempt at putting some of that thinking on paper. We're drawn to the anomaly - the thing that doesn't fit, as a place where the most generative thinking tends to happen.
Our first issue explores creative process: part essay, part visual interruption. Louise invited nine contributors: critical theorists, a creative technologist, photographers, a psychiatrist, an editor, academics and more, to respond to prompts about process. What came back provokes ideas around meaning, ritual, not-knowing, entanglement, boredom, reptation/repetition and God as the ideal client. Louise is a Creative Director, Trend Forecaster and Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at University of the Arts London. She works at the intersection of creativity, consumption and identity and has spoken at LDF, DRS Conf, MIT and more.
@collective_anomalies @louiseheehee @ryan._blackwell @caitcmo @POSTPOSTPOST @drnraven @iigalskii @romy_gad @
Living Polaroid Lifts with Riya Panwar
Participants will learn the fundamentals of Polaroid emulsion lift, transferring images onto different surfaces including organic and biomaterial materials. Through hands-on experimentation, they will create image-based works that explore texture, fragility, decay, and care while considering how photographic images can change when moved beyond paper.
Cyanotype on Glass Part 2 with Chiara Salvi
Participants will learn how to make cyanotype prints on glass using agar agar. The workshop will cover surface preparation, coating and drying methods, washing strategies, and troubleshooting.
Phytograms with Millie Melvin
Participants will explore camera-less photography using plants, light, and photographic materials, learning how leaves and botanical matter can create images through phytograms and lumen printing. They will leave with their own phytograms on 35mm negative strips and a small set of lumen prints made during the workshop.
Cyanotype on Glass Part 1 with Chiara Salvi
Participants will learn how to make cyanotype prints on glass using agar agar. The workshop will cover surface preparation, coating and drying methods, washing strategies, and troubleshooting.
The Process Room Exhibition by Alternative Process and The Photobook Cafe
In celebration of our partnership with Alternative Processes, we are delighted to present The Process Room, an exhibition and public programme exploring the intersections of alternative photographic processes, photobook publishing, zine-making, sustainability, archives, and community-led creative practice.
Hosted within the gallery, the programme brings together artists, photographers, publishers, and makers who are expanding the possibilities of image-making through experimental and hands-on approaches. Through a series of workshops, talks, and participatory events, visitors will have the opportunity to engage directly with process-based practices, from alternative photography techniques and material experimentation to independent publishing and self-produced photobooks.
The Process Room celebrates the shared DIY ethos that connects alternative photographic processes with independent publishing. Both traditions are rooted in experimentation, accessibility, and the creation of work outside conventional industry frameworks, encouraging artists to develop personal and sustainable approaches to making.
Alongside the exhibition, the public programme offers a range of beginner-friendly workshops and events designed to open up these practices to new audiences, fostering learning, collaboration, and creative exchange within a supportive community environment.
To explore the full programme of workshops, events, and ticket information, please visit Alternative Processes.
Weaving Photographs: Reimagining old work with LJ Furner
Participants will repurpose old or imperfect alternative photography prints — such as cyanotypes, lumen prints, and photographs — by cutting and weaving them into new image-based works. Using simple paper-weaving techniques, mini looms, and collage methods, they will create at least one finished woven photographic piece while learning how to reuse and rethink prints that might otherwise be discarded.
Exhibition: Inbetween by Ross Deeley
The Inbetweens are a series of Luminograms, created by drawing with light over photographic paper with a handmade tool similar to a fibre optic device. Produced through an experimental process of exposure and cross-processing, the works occupy a space between drawing and photography - engaging directly with traces of light. Light therefore becomes both the subject matter and the process behind the abstractions.
The series forms part of an extended investigation into light and its materiality - drawing on ideas of optics and perception. The resulting abstract images are reminiscent of visual phenomena such as the phosphenes and floaters behind our eyes. Each work records a moment of transformation, change and decay, as a result of light accumulating on the paper’s surface.
Ross Deeley (b. 2001, Birmingham, UK) is an artist working across and in-between sculpture, photography, and moving image.
He has previously exhibited at Somerset House, and at the /’FU:BAR/ Glitch Art Festival.
In 2025, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice.
Zine Workshop
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!
Field Notes Exhibition - Photography by George Hutton - Words by Cameron Hill
People think of Yorkshire and think of green fields, gruff voices, dry stone walls. Picture postcard stuff, a neat vignette to turn into a TV show or drive by on your holidays.
But Yorkshire covers over 10% of England’s landmass, a sprawling landscape threaded through with networks of work, passion, and everyday life woven into the dales and moors over generations. Everywhere, pockets of culture and craft bring colour to the countryside - a landscape that is not idyllic or untouched, but constantly being changed and worked. Green fields and burnt moors meeting grounds for heritage and change, industry and nature, community and isolation. This exhibition draws on a year spent reporting across the rural corners of the county. Through photography and prose, it builds a fragmentary portrait of the people, places, and practices that shape where we live.
George Hutton primarily shoots on medium format film and prints his images by hand in the darkroom. Having produced collections that profile the landscape and people of the Whitby area, he now spends his time working and living between London and Yorkshire.
Cameron Hill studied literature at Cambridge and York. He now owns a sandwich shop and writes.
Social Media Handles
@george_huttonn
3books launch and 2 posters launch, by missing everything i knew,
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.
Zine Workshop
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!
Book Launch: This Is The Place by Katy Lane
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.
Zine club
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!
Graduate Showcase: Evolve by BA Commercial Photography
Evolve is a collective body of photographic work exploring fashion, portraiture, still life, landscapes & events.
Presented by eight graduates from Falmouth University’s BA Commercial Photography, this exhibition celebrates hard work and a range of different visual approaches.
Social Media Handles
@evolve.fal
Zine Club
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!