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 Launch: Sakura: a journey through japan by Oliver Bryant Photography
Project Statement:
Sakura: A Journey Through Japan is a Zine that has been two years in development. Oliver has travelled across Japan in the Summer and Spring to showcase how beautiful Japan is from it's neon lights glowing in Shinjuku to the calm serenity of Lake Kawaguchi overlooking mount fuji.
Artist Bio
Oliver Bryant has always been interested in photography but after COVID-19 he decided to pick up the camera again and re-explore the world travelling to Iceland, Norway, Greece, Japan, France and around the United Kingdom. In 2025 Oliver won his first photography competition with “Bear-Musement” a portrait of a brown bear. Oliver focuses on wildlife and landscape photography often spending a few hours waiting for “the right shot”. Neurodiverse (ADHD + Autism) Oliver observes the world in ways that neurotypical people may not observe at first, he particularly enjoys taking photos that remove people from the image to focus on the landscapes. Oliver uses both digital and analogue cameras and has built up a collection of historical cameras as well as modern mirrorless systems.
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@oliverbryantphotography (instagram, threads)
Photobook launch and exhibition: After The Heist by John Hartley
After the Heist sequences a powerful collection of images shot exclusively in Finsbury Park during 2025, with a crime noir storyline inspired by local newspaper reports, to explore the area’s enduring cycles of criminality and violence.
Legendary photographer and Finsbury Park ‘tearaway’, Don McCullin’s career began in 1958 with the national publication of his photograph of a local gang following the stabbing of a policeman. 67 years later in 2025, John Hartley arrived to photograph the area to be met not once, but twice, by ‘murder tents’ as the police began forensics following multiple stabbings. Extensive research, photography and many conversations on the street over the next 12 months followed, producing a unique work of subjective documentary; The Finsbury Park Heist itself is a work of fiction so that After the Heist can be a more engaging and impactful work of truth.
John Hartley grew up in what is now described as 'post-industrial' West Yorkshire (as though it was always part of the plan) and studied Social Political Science at Cambridge University. As the son of an immigrant, his photographic practice centres on migrant communities here in the UK and the diversity of cultures that lie beyond. His practice is founded on the belief that the still image can stop the noise and build empathy and shared humanity – the antidote to xenophobia and mistrust. His work has featured in numerous publications and art and photography exhibitions from the Mall gallery to The Photographer’s Gallery.
A photograph taken from his লন্ডনী Londonis project will feature in PhotoMonth 2026's Unity and Community exhibition at Mile End Pavilion from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 25th October. He’s an established jazz musician in Love for Sale playing over 600 gigs in the last decade.
Exhibition: Is It Unreached Ruins by Audrey Ni Ruorong, Iris Jingyi Zeng, Xinyu Huang; curated by Alice Luo (Ya-Hsin)
What does it mean to come across a place you can never quite reach, locate, or fully understand?
Audrey Ni Ruorong, Iris Jingyi Zeng and Xinyu Huang bring together digital collage, analogue photography and embodied walking to look at ruins not as something left over from the past, but as something still unfolding. A structure reclaimed by plants. A landscape no longer shaped by human hands. A memory whose original form can’t be recovered.
At the centre of the exhibition, a table holds the artists’ notes, drafts, rejected images and unfinished thoughts, open for visitors to handle and rearrange.
Artists: Iris is a London-based visual artist works primarily with analogue photography, alongside moving image, installation and material experimentation. Shaped by their early connection to Yunnan’s natural environment and experiences of displacement, their practice explores dwelling, belonging and accumulated time. Wilderness, domestic interiors and found materials recur throughout their ongoing processes of image-making.
Xinyu is an artist and researcher based between Chongqing and Scotland. Using analogue photography as a starting point, she explores how ways of seeing shape perception. Informed by encounters with Scotland’s wilderness, her work considers the primordial bond between human beings and the world beneath the structures of modern life.
Audrey is a Glasgow-based artist and researcher completing a practice-led PhD at the Glasgow School of Art. Working across photography, moving image, installation and AI-generated media, she constructs secondary worlds through her Weird Methodology, treating incomprehension not as failure but as material for creating new unstable narratives and unfamiliar forms.
02/10/2026, 18:00-22:30; 18:00-21:00 (PV)
03/10/2026, 10:00-22:00
04/10/2026, 10:00-14:00
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
Photobook Launch: Find Your Focus by Mike Chudley
An evening with Mike Chudley to celebrate the release of Find Your Focus, his first published book on seeing, shooting and finding your way in street photography. Books available on the night.
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@mikechudley
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: We Eat the Earth
Crystal Bennes is an artist and writer based in Scotland. Her work examines suppressed histories, knowledge systems and power structures. Using a method that often begins with feminist reinterpretations of archival traces or myths, her work reveals the connections between science, history, capitalism, colonialism, gender and political power. Bennes works across a wide range of media including tapestries, soap sculptures, photographs, publications, performance lectures, prints and meadows. Her first book, Klara and the Bomb, was published by The Eriskay Connection in 2022.
We Eat the Earth explores the ways in which our collective appetite reshapes the Earth and how the production of nutrients required for agriculture impacts our political and physical environments. From Sweden to Western Sahara, England to occupied Palestine, Germany to the Netherlands, this book maps the material flows of nitrogen, potassium and phosphate fertiliser between eight key sites.
We Eat the Earth reveals the destabilising global impact of fertiliser production and the devastating environmental and socio-political consequences of its extraction, production and management. Finally, through its focus on a small, but expanding group of farmers committed to producing food without the use of fertiliser, the project also offers a hopeful view for the future of agriculture.
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crystalbennes, eriskayconnection
Fashion & Culture Night: After Hours by PEDASSS ATELIER
PEDASSS ATELIER is a London-based fashion label reworking traditional Indonesian textiles for a contemporary wardrobe. Designed in London and handcrafted in Indonesia, the brand brings techniques including batik, lurik, and jumputan into modern silhouettes with a focus on small-batch production, strong design and the people behind the fabric.
Founded after a year spent researching textile traditions in Indonesia, including learning batik first-hand, PEDASSS sees heritage as something active rather than archival: a design language that can move, evolve and still feel relevant now.
With Photobook Cafe, PEDASSS brings that world into one space through fashion, textiles, film, music and making. Traditional Indonesian textiles and their histories will be shown alongside pieces from the current collection and the PEDASSS archive, creating a visual conversation between where the fabrics come from and what they can become.
A short film will trace elements of the making process, while Indonesian music and small desserts bring another layer of the culture into the room. Visitors can also take part in a scrunchie-making workshop using leftover PEDASSS fabric offcuts.
The project is a look back at generations of textile knowledge and how these textile traditions continue to be worn, reworked and carried forward.
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@pedasss.atelier
Photography Exhibition: Land, Space and Beyond by Leonardo Di Maggio
Leonardo Di Maggio is a photographer and artist living in London.
His photographs range from figurative abstracts to deep space astrophotography and mountain landscapes.
His work explores spatial landscape abstraction and he often uses strong contrasts between light and dark to sculpt form and guide the viewer around organic or geometric imagery.
Di Maggio has twice won the Royal Museum Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation and has been in a number of group shows, both in London and internationally, as well as having his work printed in publications around the world.
Land, Space and Beyond takes the viewer on a photographic journey through land and into deep space. The exhibition begins with the minute and a series of images created by a unique cameraless photography technique. The viewer then moves onto a range of figurative landscapes sculpted by nature, past towering mountain scenes and up into the deep dark sky. The exhibition features a giant cyanotype mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a work that Di Maggio has been creating for the last seven years and one that he describes as his most challenging and ambitious project yet. The mosaic will be displayed for the first time at the exhibition and is the largest cyanotype created of our galactic neighbour.
During Frieze week, on Saturday 17th October, go on a journey through land and into space, whilst enjoying a mixture of experimental photography techniques, infrared imaging and a dance of science and art.
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!
Gallery hire: Unsent Letters by Nomuki
Nomuki (she/her) is an artist and songwriter from Mongolia. She began writing and producing her own music at nineteen and later studied at Berklee College of Music, shaping a practice rooted in storytelling and emotional expression. In 2025, she published her first prose and poetry book, 'Je T’aime'. Recently, she founded a community‑based literature club with her father called Monday Letters, dedicated to sharing unsent letters and personal writing.
Her debut exhibition, Unsent Letters, explores the quiet beauty of letters written but never sent, how words can hold truth, memory, and feeling even when they remain private. Through handwritten pieces and a participatory letter‑writing workshop, the project invites visitors to slow down, reflect, and experience the beauty of unspoken words.
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@nomukiii
@mondayyletters
Nio Far Book Launch - Carl Andile Holman
Carl Andile Holman (b. 1994) is a South African interdisciplinary photographer and director. His work explores themes of social identity and cultural change, with a commitment to representing his subjects with authenticity and honesty.
Based between Paris and Amsterdam, Carl’s clients include TEDx, VICE, Maxhosa, NOWNESS and Lukhanyo Mdingi. 'Nio Far - We Are One' is the artist's first ever photobook. The series was created with guidance from members of the local community and includes themes of community, brotherhood and sport.
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@carlholman @lindazhengova @lara_damiens @surfeurpapa @seydi_110 @ndiayejim
Workshop: Polaroid Emulsion Lift by Riya Panwar
Riya Panwar is an alternative photographer and visual artist whose ongoing research and practice explores the expansion of the Polaroid Emulsion Lift technique. Her work considers the Polaroid as something beyond a fixed image, a living visual that can grow, decay, transform, and exist in relation to time and materiality.
Working with ephemeral and perishable surfaces such as fruits, biomaterials, and materials gathered from nature, Riya explores how images can become part of the environments they inhabit. Her ongoing project, Living Polaroids, looks at how humans learn from nature and become part of it, allowing non-human collaborators to influence, morph, and gather around the work.
The practice is an exploration of making with, rather than simply making on, material, creating space for chance, change, and the unpredictable qualities of natural processes.
In this workshop, Riya will introduce participants to the Polaroid Emulsion Lift technique and its possibilities for exploring materiality and making. Through demonstrations, experimentation, and conversation, participants will be encouraged to consider how their visuals can exist, transform, and evolve through different materials and surfaces.
Riya has been working with the Polaroid Emulsion Lift technique for over 4+ years and continues to explore its potential as a way of understanding images, materials, and the living world around us.
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!
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!
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.
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@malindijo
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!
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 - 15:00
The age of the Zine a night celebrating fanzine culture with James Brown, Maisie Brogden, Anna Leader and Claire Mahoney
An evening of fanzine chat with someone who produced a very popular one in the 80s and three people doing them now.
Gallery will be open from 7pm, the talk will begin shortly after.
Zines can be purchased on the night.
Tickets can be purchased here, booking is essential.
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!
Exhibition: Beautiful Parasite by Shehab Adel
Artist Bio: Shehab Adel is a London-based photographer and art director whose practice focuses on constructed characters and image-making. His work is rooted in the building of visual worlds. bringing together styling, set design, and atmosphere to produce photographs that exist between reality and fiction. Drawing from fashion, film, subcultures, and folklore, Shehab treats photography as a medium for visual storytelling and world-building. His images explore identity, transformation and the quiet tension between tenderness and decay.
Project Statement: Beautiful Parasite is a solo exhibition by Shehab Adel exploring the destructive mechanics of vanity, self-obsession, and narcissism through a contemporary gothic lens. The work treats the obsession with beauty as a parasitic force, something that slowly consumes whatever it lives inside. Chasing aesthetic perfection does not elevate a person; it hollows them out. Built across staged narrative sets, the project traces different versions of a singular decay, all stemming from the same root: a wanting so relentless that the desire itself becomes the ruin. Moving away from traditional horror tropes, the series explores decay and dark romanticism through a softer, more intimate portraiture.
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!
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.'
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
Book Launch: Never Let You Go by Baris Ucar
Baris Ucar is an Istanbul-born, London-based photographer and visual artist working across portraiture, documentary photography and collage.
Never Let You Go is a debut solo photobook bringing together work developed over the past two years in London. The book moves between portraits, streets, fragments, traces of light and strangers, forming an uneasy, dreamlike passage through urban life.
Using rephotography alongside physical and digital interventions, the photographs are revisited and altered through shifts in texture, scale and surface. The sequence lets images drift between familiarity and distance, allowing a narrative to unfold whose beginning and end remain unclear.
Never Let You Go will be launched at The Photobook Cafe in Shoreditch on 3 September 2026. Copies of the book will be available to view and purchase.
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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
FLIP#64 Summer Issue Launch
You are cordially invited to FLIP Queer issue launch event at the iconic Photobook Café in Shoreditch on Wednesday 26th August 2026, 6:00 - 9:00 pm.
Published independently by London Independent Photography, this 64th issue of FLIP magazine asks us to see from a different angle, to be inquisitive and open, and not to take at face value what may be considered normative or conventional.
FLIP’s Summer issue explores queer not only as LGBTQIA+ lived experience, but also as a way of seeing – through photography, essays and reviews that look beyond the binary, featuring newly commissioned articles by Laura Migliorino, Frankie McAllister, Tim George, Nina Ijomone, Robin Maurice Barr and others, as well as an interview with the artist Martin Seeds and a photo essay from Pride in London 2026, and much more!
Hope to see you there!
With very best wishes, London Independent Photography and FLIP magazine
Cover image by ©Nina Ijomone
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.
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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
Anything but Portraits
Billy Allen and Lilah Culliford of Spread of the Day will be hosting a quick fire one-night-only exhibition at Photobook Cafe on the 19th August with an accompanying newsprint publication sponsored by the great Newspaper Club.
'We will be creating a newspaper publication to accompany the show, featuring one image from each photographer as a full spread on a tabloid sheet. The publication is designed so that it can be taken apart, with each individual image becoming a poster that can be displayed on the wall.
Before the tabloid sheet is separated, each spread presents one half of a photographer’s image paired with half of another photographer’s image, creating unexpected combinations. Once the sheets are removed and unfolded, the complete images are revealed and can be displayed individually as posters.
The work will be exhibited in this way, as newspaper spreads on the walls.’
Exhibitors: Aaron Dupreé, Agota Mucsi, Barnaby Chinnock, Billy Allen, Connie Whitham, Forest Flanders, Huiyi Li, Jack Sproston, Jess Fine, Jivan West, Lilah Culliford, Marcie Docherty, Michael MacDonald, Michalina Kozanecka, Ornella Mari, Otto Monkhouse-Deve, Spike Visser, Stefano Ferrarin, Vera Barkalova and Wilf Penrose.
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!
Installation Film Launch: A Significant Moment by Imogen Harrison
Imogen Harrison is a filmmaker and artist who's work interprets the delicate nature of existence.
In her latest body of work Imogen explores identity, perception and what it is to be a human living amongst other humans. This installation film 'Everyone Meets A Different You' is a reflection on the journey back to self.
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Director & Writer - @harrisonimogen Producer - @elibanfield_film Cinematographer - @simonplunketdop Starring - @kasey_grigsbyy Voice Over - @gretaisaac 1st AC - @nowthenpete Key Grip - @edlivoo Gaffer - @ethanheather Editor - @jessloizou Composer & Sound Designer - @crispywav Colourist - @vladb.c Grade Studio - @studio__rm Grade Exec Producer - @mikecoley_culkin Grade Producer - @madeleineruthg Shot on Kodak Super 16mm Film - @kodak Camera Kit - @onestopfilms Lighting Kit - @pilotlighting
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_
