Past Events

Tuesday 26 October

Teju Cole joins critic and essayist Shuchi Saraswat to discuss his new book Golden Apple of the Sun, reflecting on its genesis over lockdown in the months leading up to the 2020 US presidential election and the many aesthetic, historic, and moral questions it raises.

Wednesday 27 October

Hoda Afshar joins Brett Rogers, director at The Photographers' Gallery, London, to discuss her new book Speak The Wind and the ways her photographic practice dissolves the boundaries of staged and documentary photography to make visible stories that are not immediately seen.

Thursday 28 October

Theorist Tina Campt and artist and writer Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa explore their shared interest in photography, visuality, and race, examining how they interact and the ways artists generate spectatorial experiences of racial difference in contemporary practice, marking the release of Wolukau-Wanambwa's new essay collection Dark Mirrors.

Saturday 9 October

Serbest Salih, founder of Sirkhane DARKROOM, discusses the new book i saw the air fly, a collection of images made by children living on the Syria/Turkey border, with Liv Constable-Maxwell, co-editor of the book, as part of Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair 2021. This event is free to watch by live stream.

Thursday 7 October

From his studio in Köln, Jeffrey Ladd takes us on a detailed tour of his wide-ranging, indiosyncratic, and constantly surprising book collection, discussing the inventive use of images in punk posters, eccentric advertising materials, photobooks, and beyond.

Thursday 23 September

Jeffrey Ladd guides us through the process behind his astonishing new archival project drawing on the Historic American Buildings Survey, reflecting on his own architectural decisions in structuring the book as well as some of his key influences.