Past Events

Thursday 16 December

Doris Derby discusses her work as a photographer and organiser at the heart of the civil rights movements in the United States with artist Hannah Collins. Through a series of defining images, Derby reflects on the historical event she witnessed first hand and their lessons for today’s generation of activists and artists.

Thursday 20 January

Join Janet Delaney and Mother Jones photo editor Mark Murrmann as they discuss Delaney's new book Red Eye to New York. Their conversation will focus on the pleasures and terrors of working as a photographer in the public arena. Delaney will also be sharing street photography work from around the world, including many never before seen images.

Wednesday 8 December

Join Joshua Chuang of The New York Public Library and photo-historian Miyuki Hinton for an immersive experience of Chizu (The Map), the legendary photobook first published by Kikuji Kawada in 1965. Learn firsthand why Chizu has been heralded as “the ultimate photobook-as-object,” the most famous and sought-after book in the history of Japanese photography.

Saturday 19 March

Join Gerry Johansson at the opening of his new solo exhibition 'Gerry Johansson: The Books' for the launch of Spanish Summer, his latest distinctive landscape study, which draws on Johnasson's decades of experience as a master photographer and book-maker to re-envision the plains of central Spain.

Thursday 25 November

Photographer Adam Broomberg speaks to theorist McKenzie Wark and writer Mark Gevisser about the themes and questions raised in Broomberg’s recent collaborative book Glitter in My Wounds, reflecting on the ways convention can be confronted and dismantled in art and writing.

Thursday 18 November

Martin Kollar sits down with Brad Feuerhelm in Bratislava to discuss his new book After, which is a response to the unexpected passing of his partner, Maria. They discuss the book’s unusual elegy and the ways our lives and work are divided into “before” and “after”.