The Develop Collective is part of The Photographers’ Gallery’s youth programme bringing together Chandni Raithatha, Demelza Okwan, Tati El Mallah, Jasmine Sandhu and Soumia Sadoun as part of the 2026 cohort.

Together, we created the publication From Home to Home, exploring the experiences of five women, each from a different diaspora, through archival and contemporary photographs and stories. It frames home not as a fixed or singular idea, but as an ongoing, collective conversation. From Home to Home contributes to a wider dialogue on belonging, visibility and the evolving fabric of one of the world’s most diverse cities — London

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Nomuki (she/her) is an artist and songwriter from Mongolia. She began writing and producing her own music at nineteen and later studied at Berklee College of Music, shaping a practice rooted in storytelling and emotional expression. In 2025, she published her first prose and poetry book, 'Je T’aime'. Recently, she founded a community‑based literature club with her father called Monday Letters, dedicated to sharing unsent letters and personal writing.

Her debut exhibition, Unsent Letters, explores the quiet beauty of letters written but never sent, how words can hold truth, memory, and feeling even when they remain private. Through handwritten pieces and a participatory letter‑writing workshop, the project invites visitors to slow down, reflect, and experience the beauty of unspoken words.

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Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Leonardo Di Maggio is a photographer and artist living in London.

His photographs range from figurative abstracts to deep space astrophotography and mountain landscapes.

His work explores spatial landscape abstraction and he often uses strong contrasts between light and dark to sculpt form and guide the viewer around organic or geometric imagery.

Di Maggio has twice won the Royal Museum Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation and has been in a number of group shows, both in London and internationally, as well as having his work printed in publications around the world.

Land, Space and Beyond takes the viewer on a photographic journey through land and into deep space. The exhibition begins with the minute and a series of images created by a unique cameraless photography technique. The viewer then moves onto a range of figurative landscapes sculpted by nature, past towering mountain scenes and up into the deep dark sky. The exhibition features a giant cyanotype mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a work that Di Maggio has been creating for the last seven years and one that he describes as his most challenging and ambitious project yet. The mosaic will be displayed for the first time at the exhibition and is the largest cyanotype created of our galactic neighbour.

During Frieze week, on Saturday 17th October, go on a journey through land and into space, whilst enjoying a mixture of experimental photography techniques, infrared imaging and a dance of science and art.

Truth & Kitty: A Las Vegas Love Story is photographer and filmmaker David Harriman’s fourteen-year portrait of two people surviving on the fringes of America’s most marketed city.

What began in 2012 as an exploration of environmental excess transformed into an unguarded, intimate collaboration. Meeting Truth and Kitty as industrious recyclers on Fremont Street, he stayed close to their lives as circumstances shifted and they found themselves homeless.

The project deepened into a study of love and endurance. It is a record of two people clinging to one another through motels, underpasses, jails, and a mountain cave overlooking the shimmer of the famous Strip – even as the bond between them begins to fray. Around them, a whole community lives in the shadow of a city built on a dream that was never theirs to win.

Unflinching yet tender, Truth & Kitty surfaces the reality of a Las Vegas that has been managed into invisibility.

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PEDASSS ATELIER is a London-based fashion label reworking traditional Indonesian textiles for a contemporary wardrobe. Designed in London and handcrafted in Indonesia, the brand brings techniques including batik, lurik, and jumputan into modern silhouettes with a focus on small-batch production, strong design and the people behind the fabric.

Founded after a year spent researching textile traditions in Indonesia, including learning batik first-hand, PEDASSS sees heritage as something active rather than archival: a design language that can move, evolve and still feel relevant now.

With Photobook Cafe, PEDASSS brings that world into one space through fashion, textiles, film, music and making. Traditional Indonesian textiles and their histories will be shown alongside pieces from the current collection and the PEDASSS archive, creating a visual conversation between where the fabrics come from and what they can become.

A short film will trace elements of the making process, while Indonesian music and small desserts bring another layer of the culture into the room. Visitors can also take part in a scrunchie-making workshop using leftover PEDASSS fabric offcuts.

The project is a look back at generations of textile knowledge and how these textile traditions continue to be worn, reworked and carried forward.

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Crystal Bennes is an artist and writer based in Scotland. Her work examines suppressed histories, knowledge systems and power structures. Using a method that often begins with feminist reinterpretations of archival traces or myths, her work reveals the connections between science, history, capitalism, colonialism, gender and political power. Bennes works across a wide range of media including tapestries, soap sculptures, photographs, publications, performance lectures, prints and meadows. Her first book, Klara and the Bomb, was published by The Eriskay Connection in 2022.

We Eat the Earth explores the ways in which our collective appetite reshapes the Earth and how the production of nutrients required for ­agriculture impacts our political and physical environments. From Sweden to Western Sahara, ­England to occupied Palestine, ­Germany to the Netherlands, this book maps the material flows of ­nitrogen, potassium and ­phosphate fertiliser between eight key sites.

We Eat the Earth reveals the destabilising global impact of ­fertiliser production and the devastating ­environmental and ­socio-political ­consequences of its extraction, ­production and ­management. Finally, through its focus on a small, but expanding group of ­farmers ­committed to producing food ­without the use of fertiliser, the ­project also offers a hopeful view for the future of agriculture.

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Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

An evening with Mike Chudley to celebrate the release of Find Your Focus, his first published book on seeing, shooting and finding your way in street photography. Books available on the night.

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Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning Brazilian visual artist, researcher, and activist whose practice engages with environmental and human rights issues through a decolonial lens rooted in the Global South. Her work explores the political agency of photography and its potential as a tool for social and environmental change.

Named by PhMuseum as one of the 12 women photographers to watch worldwide, Ribeiro has exhibited internationally and has had her work featured in publications and platforms including The Guardian, LensCulture, Photoworks, VIST Projects, The Royal Photographic Society Journal, Viens Voir, and Luna Cornea.

Ribeiro was nominated for the Prix Pictet 2025 and has received numerous international awards, including the Earth Photo–Photoworks Award (Global), the PHotoEspaña Discoveries Award (Spain), the POY Latam Carolina Hidalgo Vivar Photography Award (Latin America), the Royal Photographic Society Awards (UK), and the Marc Ferrez Photography Prize from the National Arts Foundation (Brazil). She has also been shortlisted for the Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles Photobook Award (France), the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award (UK), and the Pierre Verger Photography Prize (Brazil), among others.

She has undertaken professional training with Magnum Photos, Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London, and the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ribeiro holds an MSc in Ecology, Wildlife Conservation and Management, and a PhD in Creative Arts/Photography. She is a member of Foto Féminas and collaborates with Fast Forward: Women in Photography and the Latin America Bureau.

The evening will feature an informal artist talk and open Q&A with Marilene Ribeiro in a seated gallery setting, offering audiences the opportunity to learn more about her practice, research, and recent projects. The talk will begin at 18:30 and conclude at approximately 20:00, followed by an hour of informal browsing and discussion within the gallery.

A selection of publications will also be available to browse and purchase throughout the evening directly from the artist.

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After the Heist sequences a powerful collection of images shot exclusively in Finsbury Park during 2025, with a crime noir storyline inspired by local newspaper reports, to explore the area’s enduring cycles of criminality and violence.

Legendary photographer and Finsbury Park ‘tearaway’, Don McCullin’s career began in 1958 with the national publication of his photograph of a local gang following the stabbing of a policeman. 67 years later in 2025, John Hartley arrived to photograph the area to be met not once, but twice, by ‘murder tents’ as the police began forensics following multiple stabbings. Extensive research, photography and many conversations on the street over the next 12 months followed, producing a unique work of subjective documentary; The Finsbury Park Heist itself is a work of fiction so that After the Heist can be a more engaging and impactful work of truth.

John Hartley grew up in what is now described as 'post-industrial' West Yorkshire (as though it was always part of the plan) and studied Social Political Science at Cambridge University. As the son of an immigrant, his photographic practice centres on migrant communities here in the UK and the diversity of cultures that lie beyond. His practice is founded on the belief that the still image can stop the noise and build empathy and shared humanity – the antidote to xenophobia and mistrust. His work has featured in numerous publications and art and photography exhibitions from the Mall gallery to The Photographer’s Gallery.

A photograph taken from his লন্ডনী Londonis project will feature in PhotoMonth 2026's Unity and Community exhibition at Mile End Pavilion from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 25th October. He’s an established jazz musician in Love for Sale playing over 600 gigs in the last decade.

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Sakura: A Journey Through Japan is a Zine that has been two years in development. Oliver has travelled across Japan in the Summer and Spring to showcase how beautiful Japan is from it's neon lights glowing in Shinjuku to the calm serenity of Lake Kawaguchi overlooking mount fuji.

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Oliver Bryant has always been interested in photography but after COVID-19 he decided to pick up the camera again and re-explore the world travelling to Iceland, Norway, Greece, Japan, France and around the United Kingdom. In 2025 Oliver won his first photography competition with “Bear-Musement” a portrait of a brown bear. Oliver focuses on wildlife and landscape photography often spending a few hours waiting for “the right shot”. Neurodiverse (ADHD + Autism) Oliver observes the world in ways that neurotypical people may not observe at first, he particularly enjoys taking photos that remove people from the image to focus on the landscapes. Oliver uses both digital and analogue cameras and has built up a collection of historical cameras as well as modern mirrorless systems.

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THE DRESS is an ongoing project from Malindi Jo Walker that began in 2019. It’s pretty self-explanatory - each person is photographed in the same dress, posed however they’d like, with the image composed in a similar fashion, all taken on the same camera. What’s come from the project is a greater conversation about our perceived and projected identities in today's world. The first volume of the project was self published in 2024 before she left the United States, capturing the chapter of her life spent in San Francisco. Participants of this event will have their portraits taken to contribute to the second volume of this project's publication, broadening the conversation of the project to Walker's community in London.

You can reserve your spot for a portrait session through this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1996225180251?aff=oddtdtcreator

Malindi Jo Walker is a multimedia artist based in London whose work aims to dissect and amplify the intimacies of relationships, spanning across the interpersonal and interconnected. Walker uses photography, family archives, moving images, and installation to find the truth of these connections through their reality and fabricated iterations. She recently finished her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art and plans to stay in London continuing her work.

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Curious for some objective feedback on your work? Making new face-to-face connections can be powerful. Making this time to discuss your labour of love also gets you, your choice of (non-alc.) beverage from The Photo Book Café AND a PRINT copy of photoED Magazine. Advance bookings required.

-A coffee & 30 minute Portfolio Review with a magazine publisher might just be what you need right now!

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An evening of fanzine chat with someone who produced a very popular one in the 80s and three people doing them now.

Gallery will be open from 7pm, the talk will begin shortly after.

Zines can be purchased on the night.

Tickets can be purchased here, booking is essential.

Our Zine Workshops take place biweekly on Mondays in our Gallery from 18:30–20:30. They’re free to attend, and you can drop in at any time during the session. The only cost is printing, which starts at £12 per zine. During the workshop, you can create and print black-and-white mini zines up to A4 size, with a maximum of 16 pages. We supply paper and staples, however if you wish you can bring your own paper with you!

Come experiment, fold, cut, copy, and share your voice in zine form. All materials provided — just bring your ideas!

Artist Bio: Shehab Adel is a London-based photographer and art director whose practice focuses on constructed characters and image-making. His work is rooted in the building of visual worlds. bringing together styling, set design, and atmosphere to produce photographs that exist between reality and fiction. Drawing from fashion, film, subcultures, and folklore, Shehab treats photography as a medium for visual storytelling and world-building. His images explore identity, transformation and the quiet tension between tenderness and decay.

Project Statement: Beautiful Parasite is a solo exhibition by Shehab Adel exploring the destructive mechanics of vanity, self-obsession, and narcissism through a contemporary gothic lens. The work treats the obsession with beauty as a parasitic force, something that slowly consumes whatever it lives inside. Chasing aesthetic perfection does not elevate a person; it hollows them out. Built across staged narrative sets, the project traces different versions of a singular decay, all stemming from the same root: a wanting so relentless that the desire itself becomes the ruin. Moving away from traditional horror tropes, the series explores decay and dark romanticism through a softer, more intimate portraiture.

Jian Jian is an independent photography magazine dedicated to black-and-white photography, built around the idea of 兼. This Chinese character represents duality—not as multitasking, but as a seamless blending of vision and thought.

Jian Jian — Issue 08:

EDGEEDGE is a conversation between places, people, and cultures. Drawn from over 25 years of travel, Renaud Castaing's photographs reveal quiet echoes across continents, reminding us that what connects us is often found in the poetry of everyday life.

For over 25 years, Renaud Castaing has travelled the world capturing the quiet poetry of everyday life. His photographs seek meaning in fleeting moments, revealing the beauty and resilience of cultures beyond cliché.

Curated by Renaud Castaing @a_rc_her

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ISSN 2977-6465

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'Tupendane, meaning "let us love one another" in Swahili, is more than a title; it is the sentiment that inspired this body of work.

Created across multiple countries and communities, these photographs offer a window into the people and places that have shaped the artist's journey. Throughout their travels, they have been welcomed with warmth, kindness, and openness. These encounters revealed a shared humanity rooted in empathy, generosity, and connection, regardless of culture or geography. Through this exhibition, the artist invites viewers to embrace the spirit of tupendane in their own lives: to lead with compassion, remain open, and seek connection in unexpected places.

All profits from the exhibition will support the Tupendane Africa Foundation, founded by the artists friend, Rosaline Mushi. The foundation is dedicated to creating lasting positive change by addressing gender inequality, discrimination, and poverty. Through education, vocational training, community development, and advocacy, it empowers individuals to build fulfilling lives and strengthen their communities.'

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Nestled within the dark heart of the South American interior is a place which evades all forms of human comprehension. A raw, primordial world still thriving in stubborn isolation despite centuries of humankind’s daring exploits. The Guiana Shield - a gateway to some of the oldest geological formations on our planet, nearly two billion years in the making, filled with ancient landscapes and relic life forms straight out of a fantasy novel. When in 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his famous story about a group of explorers visiting a mysterious plateau, it was given a new name - “The Lost World”.

„Rapture” is a sumptuous letter of appreciation dedicated to a realm where fantasy and reality intertwine. With expedition photographs, personal reflections and quotes from historical accounts of explorers, the book takes us on a journey through an incredible diversity of environments and landscapes, ranging from the stifling humidity and heat of the Amazon selva, through sun-scorched grassy highlands, the cold, misty cloud forests, to the mystical, dark and eerily silent summits of the tepui plateaus.

About the Author

Mateusz Wrazidlo is a Silesian engineer, photographer, author and, above all, an avid naturalist. Born in 1993 in Rydułtowy in the south of Poland, he has co-organised and participated in numerous expeditions to Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Svalbard, among many others. The Guiana Shield remains his primary field of focus for research and photography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.

@mateusz_explority

Baris Ucar is an Istanbul-born, London-based photographer and visual artist working across portraiture, documentary photography and collage.

Never Let You Go is a debut solo photobook bringing together work developed over the past two years in London. The book moves between portraits, streets, fragments, traces of light and strangers, forming an uneasy, dreamlike passage through urban life.

Using rephotography alongside physical and digital interventions, the photographs are revisited and altered through shifts in texture, scale and surface. The sequence lets images drift between familiarity and distance, allowing a narrative to unfold whose beginning and end remain unclear.

Never Let You Go will be launched at The Photobook Cafe in Shoreditch on 3 September 2026. Copies of the book will be available to view and purchase.

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