We’re pleased to host a series of informal talks that celebrate photobooks, zines, and independent publishing. We welcome individuals to join us on select Monday evenings. These sessions offer a relaxed and engaging space for creators to share the stories, processes, and ideas behind their work. This will be an opportunity to share knowledge and build relationships with those interested in publishing.
Talks take place on select Monday evenings between 18:00–21:00.
Guests can RSVP. Please also note that our basement gallery does not have step-free access and involves 25 steps.
Talks begin at 18:30, with an opportunity to meet the photographer and view their publication during the event. There will also be time to ask the photographer questions during the second half of the Talk.
Between Vision and Thought, introducing 兼兼 magazine06 - Au-delá by Mélina Benyoub
Mélina is a spatial practices and architecture student at Central Saint Martins in London. Her work centres on people first, looking at how spaces are shaped by power, history and lived experiences. She is especially interested in practices of decolonialisation and how rethinking whose voices are heard can lead to more inclusive ways of designing and occupying space.
Her practice explores how the built environment affects the way people interact, behave and feel, often focusing on everyday spaces and overlooked narratives. Working across architecture, design and storytelling, Mélina uses space to question dominant structures and imagine alternatives that are more grounded, human and socially aware.
The architecture of the self is reflected in the architecture of the city. Memories of my childhood and the tender whispers of what could have been sit concrete, neglected and lost in time. Nostalgia doesn’t fit easily in this space. Ideas of permanence fall away and are replaced by a softer, thinner kind of hope This series unveils the contrast between life in the city and life in the suburbs. The stark contrast between two lived experiences shared and in limbo, neither able to be sustained without the other. These photographs rest in that tension. Between what is maintained and what is left to fade, between the city’s bright centre and its quieter, eroded edges. They look at the places where life continues anyway, quietly and without announcement. Snippets of the two lives fight for dominance, and the lines become blurred.