We’re pleased to host a series of informal talks that celebrate photobooks, zines, and independent publishing. We welcome individuals to join us on select Monday evenings. These sessions offer a relaxed and engaging space for creators to share the stories, processes, and ideas behind their work. This will be an opportunity to share knowledge and build relationships with those interested in publishing.
Talks take place on select Monday evenings between 18:00–21:00.
Guests can RSVP. Please also note that our basement gallery does not have step-free access and involves 25 steps.
Talks begin at 18:30, with an opportunity to meet the photographer and view their publication during the event. There will also be time to ask the photographer questions during the second half of the Talk.
Humanscape by HU Yue
HU Yue (胡悦) is a London-based visual art practitioner, curator, editor, and translator. She holds an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Westminster and is currently finishing practice-based doctoral research with the University of Plymouth. Her interdisciplinary research situates the dynamic relationship between humans’ interventions and natural landscapes in the context of environmental and climate change. Her artistic investigations often engage with artificial landscapes, ecological imaginaries, and the sensory experience of a place. Through curating and walking practices, she explores the broader contemporary visual art world and reimagines the landscape as a site of negotiation, memory, and transformation.
Humanscape: Tianjin 39.0851° N, 117.1994° E presents the main body of work from HU Yue’s PhD research titled ‘Humanscape’ in Geopoetics — A Visual Diagnosis of Reclaimed Landscapes. Rooted in her intimate and intuitive walking in the alienating newly reclaimed lands of her hometown Tianjin, the project applies multi-sensory perspectives of “seeing”— Watching, Listening, Asking, and Feeling— borrowed from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). These TCM diagnostic approaches are applied across drone photography, cyanotype printing, microscopic imaging, videography, and sound recording. Through her “earth writing” inspired by geopoetics studies, the project introduces ‘Humanscape’ as a terrain shaped by perception, emotion, and imagination.