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.

In Search of Amnesia by Barry Falk

I am a UK based photographer exploring a range of subjects related to the psychological sense of self. I have documented places that have undergone collective trauma, focussing on Eastern Europe to consider my own personal history and explore the loss related to the Jewish narrative and collective memory. I have explored nostalgia, linked to the fascination with the former GDR, documenting and interrogating this ‘ostalgie’ for a system of surveillance that was a balance of fear, the price paid during the Cold War for rival paradigms of thought. This is nostalgia akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

My work moves between the remembered, the honoured, the erased and the reimagined. This is the landscape of the uncanny: the isolated tree becomes personified, the upended boat represents the unfulfilled escape route, the homely caravan, set in the bleak snowscape, simultaneously enticing and threatening, the island the symbol for the unconscious.

I have exhibited within the UK and internationally, featured in a wide range of photographic magazines, given public talks about my work and been interviewed by Arte TV for a documentary on trans-generational trauma.

I have recently published my first book: In Search of Amnesia, published by Kehrer Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany.