PhotoMonth 2026 Events

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This year's PhotoMonth Open Call Exhibition, Unity and Community, brings together photographs by 18 artists from all around the world, and is a response to drastic regression toward division and discrimination seen in cities all across the globe and, significantly, London. Photograph Arts believes that London's greatest strengths as a cultural and artistic hub is the creation and preservation of community by all people that find a home here. 

Accompanying the exhibition are two group shows from London Metropolitan and York St John Universities, and Seamus Murphy's Para (পাড়া), showing recent works from Kolkata, curated by Zelda Cheatle.

Unity and Community is produced by Photograph Arts and curated by Ishy Pryce-Parchment, Tom Hunter, Cherelle Sappleton, and Leah Mclaine.

 Set within this AUTOFOTO workshop, The Workshop Show: Mutinous Bodies is an invitation to untangle and share the burden of chronic illness, using the photobooth. The mechanical and analogue processes of this machine are perfect collaborators, arbitrarily glitching and malfunctioning; reflecting the unreliable bodies inside. The resulting portrait strips will then be annotated to reveal family histories of hereditary conditions, increasing visibility, and deepening public understanding of invisible illnesses. Jenny Lewis encourages participants to add their portraits and experiences to this evolving body of work.

Urbanlens leads monthly night walks for anyone to join with a phone or camera; to walk, talk and photograph from dusk to dark, discovering hidden parts of Hackney. Urbanlens are Mara Bodis-Wollner, Sacha Lehrfreund and Heather McDonough, photographic artists living and working in Hackney. At the end of the walk, participants are encouraged to share images via Whatsapp and to discuss the images made. This is a truly generous space, open to all, usually lasting about one and a half hours.

For more information: visit www.urbanlens.studio and @urbanlens3.

A symposium event by Ishy Pryce-Parchment and Lea Rebollo, hosted by Avijit Datta and Helen Julia Minors at York St John University in London.

The Togetherness of Things asks what happens when we approach community not as a stable concept of relation, but as something continually made, challenged, and transformed through aesthetic encounters. The title draws from Alessandra Raengo's discussion of what Fred Moten calls a "church problem": "a problem of how stuff goes together." For Raengo, this is a problem of the "togetherness of things." It describes how disparate elements, materials, and aesthetics congregate and form collective social or political meaning.

With DG03 Collective, Megan Taylor, Seamus Murphy, Sukhy Hullait, TPG Develop Collective and The Voicing Project.

Book a portfolio review to share your work with one of this year's formidable reviewers:

Amak Mahmoodian

David George

Fiona Shields

Ian Phillips-McLaren

Ivy Lahon

Sarah Thomson

Zelda Cheatle

Join us in celebrating the launch of David George's Imperfect, published by Graeme Farnell and MuseumsEtc.

Hear from David George about the eighteen-year journey in photographs and gravures through the English landscape exhibited in the book Imperfect, and Graeme Farnell's perspective and influential impact at MuseumsEtc, moderated by Zelda Cheatle herself.

The talk will be followed by the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Photo Booth competition, responding to Unity and Community and supported by AUTOFOTO.

Learn more about the competition.

Urbanlens leads monthly night walks for anyone to join with a phone or camera; to walk, talk and photograph from dusk to dark, discovering hidden parts of Hackney. Urbanlens are Mara Bodis-Wollner, Sacha Lehrfreund and Heather McDonough, photographic artists living and working in Hackney. At the end of the walk, participants are encouraged to share images via Whatsapp and to discuss the images made. This is a truly generous space, open to all, usually lasting about one and a half hours.

A exhibition tour of artist Immo Klink's PhotoMonth Exhibtiion, Victoria's Trees, will take place, followed by a walk from the gallery to Victoria Park to visit the trees in the exhibition.

For more information: visit www.urbanlens.studio and @urbanlens3.

Join us in celebrating 50 Years of Analogue Photography 1950 – 1999!

Returning from PhotoMonth 2025, once again curated by David Edmunds, Zelda Cheatle, and David George, is an exhibition showcasing some of the finest photographic portraiture made over 50 years. Return to Wonderland features iconic works of 40+ photographers working with film including Eve Arnold, David Bailey, Nan Goldin, Angus McBean, Sebastião Salgado and Andy Warhol.

Join us in celebrating the close of Return to Wonderland and this year's edition of PhotoMonth!

We will host a panel discussion with David George, Sandra Lousada, Mike Trow and Zelda Cheatle, followed by a celebration marking the start of the PhotoMonth 2026 programme.

All are welcome!