Will Green is a photographer based in Bath, in the South West of England. His work spans long-term personal projects and commercial commissions. His long-term projects explore themes of legacy, personal disconnect, and social ambition within the context of a changing environment. Green divides his time between the UK and New Zealand.

His first monograph, Death and Other Belongings, was published by GOST Books in December 2024. Green’s interest in photography began at the age of ten when he started using his father’s Olympus camera. His parents were both artists and designers, with numerous friends in the film industry. During visits to the film studios and production offices, he was often given spare storyboards. His early photographs were frequently constructed narratives inspired by these storyboards.

Green went on to study photography at both school and college. During his college years, he also worked as an assistant at the now long gone Floral Street Photographic Studios in Covent Garden.

His first job after graduation was at a professional photographic lab and studio, where he worked as an apprentice black-and-white printer. Over four years, he mastered black-and-white and colour printing, rostrum camera work, and E6 processing. This led to a position as lab manager, which he held for several years. He then moved on to assist two commercial photographers who were setting up their own studio, a role he held for three years before transitioning to freelance photography.

In the early 2000s, Green began to focus more on personal projects, developing a documentary approach to his work, which has since influenced his recent commercial assignments. His clients have among others have included, Knoll International, the Bank of Japan, Soho House, Philips, Sony, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, The Museum of London, USM, and Schroders.

Social media handles

@willgreenstudio

All are welcome no RSVP required.

Portrait of (US)EAN is the inaugural exhibition hosted by the University of the Arts London’s (UAL) Singapore Society. Serving as a platform for UAL students who come from the Southeast Asian region to showcase their work, this exhibition celebrates these rich and diverse cultural narratives that often overlooked on the global stage. Come join us for our one night show happening on 20th March!

Social media handles

@singsocual

Hosted in our Gallery, using Shrimpzine technology we wanted to make a drop in style event where you can hang out, chat zines and also make one too!

All you need is a smart phone and access to the internet! Shrimpzine is a free mobile web app accessible on any touch screen device. It has been designed to make zine making more accessible!

Tickets are £25, this also includes your first zine printed, then you pay for what you print; £5 Black and White, £10 Colour (between 8 and 32 pages), 2 zines maximum.

Facilitated in our basement gallery, from 18:00-20:00.

Please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.

In celebration of ZONE becoming part our permanent Archive collection, we will be hosting a Pop Up stall in our Bar for one night only!

Where you can learn all things ZONE as well as purchase select publications!

ZONE is an independent book publisher and photography based visual arts platform run by its founder, Ali. Started in the summer of 2018 as a personal research project, the aim of ZONE is to cultivate a variety of dialogues between artists and their audience, as well as supporting them with printed and online publications. We make monographs, artists’ books and other collective creatures.

Ali Beşikçi (1997, Istanbul) is an artist and publisher based in Rome. In 2018 he founded ZONE, independent book publisher and photography based visual arts platform that aims to cultivate dialogue among artists and their audience. 

Social Media Handles

@besikciali / @zone_mag

alibesikci.com / thezonezine.com

Celebrated photographer Suleika Mueller is set to launch the highly anticipated 4th edition of her acclaimed series, RAYS, on Saturday, 8th March 2025. This edition, titled RAYS: Wanu Yawanawa, delves into the spiritual practices and creative journey of Wanu Yawanawa, an Indigenous singer from the Amazon Rainforest. Wanu’s story shines a light on the profound connection between music, nature, and spiritual healing, offering viewers a rare glimpse into the Yawanawa traditions.

About RAYS

First launched on International Women’s Day 2024, RAYS is an ongoing zine series that celebrates women whose art serves as both a personal spiritual practice and outward creative expression. Each edition reflects how creativity serves as a conduit for the divine.

Artist Bio:

Swiss-born Suleika was raised in a Sudanese Sufi Muslim order, attending school in Switzerland and traveling regularly to Sudan, Egypt, the UAE, and across Europe to engage with her Sufi community. This diverse upbringing, straddling geographical and religious boundaries, has shaped her distinct aesthetic and viewpoint, carving out a new space for individuals with hybrid identities.

Now based in London, her work serves as a tool for crossing boundaries, expressing emotions, and creating bridges. Central to her practice are authentic portrayals and stories, challenging harmful stereotypes, and promoting unity in diversity. Passionate about themes like spiritual practices, transcendental experiences, various forms of communities, and the human condition, Suleika approaches her subjects with empathy and vulnerability, practicing non-violence to contribute to a more compassionate, ethical, and sustainable future.

Nikwul is 23-year-old Filipino-British emerging director and stylist. Nikwul's driving force is to visually communicate her experiences living as a woman of colour in England: expressing untold stories through an fashion editorial lens.

Social media handles

@nikwul

SWIM is a London-based annual art and photography magazine dedicated to collaboration and exploration. Each issue provides a space to work closely with artists on a central theme, offering insight into their process and practice.


The theme for our fourth and final issue is ‘Found’. Inspired by the concept of ‘Found Art’ – a term originally coined by Marcel Duchamp and epitomised by his seminal Fountain sculpture – this issue expands on the act of finding in artistic creation. Moving beyond the traditional definition of found objects, we explore themes of discovery in a broader sense: the artist as finder, the subject as found, and the act of searching itself as an artistic process.

Contributors: Alicia Gladston, Andrew Hunt, Arthur Davies-Evitt, CentreCentre Books, Claire Douglass, Ellen Woollard, Jeff Mermelstein, Joy Gregory, Karl Ohiri, Kerstin Brätsch, Khadija Saye, Kensuke Koike, King Owusu, Kirico Ueda, Leslie Hewitt, Lucia Hierro, Marguerite Bornhauser, Max Siedentopf, Paul Elliman, Penelope Umbrico, Peter Evans, Sally Gabori, Sam Hutchinson, Sophia Wöhleke, Sarah Elwen, Thom Corbishley, Thomas Sauvin.

Join us for the launch of SWIM 04, where we will be celebrating the final chapter of SWIM. The evening will feature a superstar DJ, a SWIM retrospective showcasing past launch posters, unseen films from across the years, and previous issues of SWIM that will also be available for purchase. 


This issue marks the end of the SWIM project, and we’d love to celebrate with everyone who has been a part of the journey. No RSVP needed – just come and enjoy.

Social media handles

@swimmagazine

Please note this event has sold out.

Saltdraft is a passion project zine that documents the contemporary alternative fashion scene in London and the UK. Volume 1 is a Fit Focus special, which are spreads that focus on interviews and outfit details of individuals from Greater London and North East England.

One of the main aspects of the zine is the display of diverse communities and intricacies of outfit details through a series called 'Fit Focus,' which are fun, colourful spreads inspired by 2000s Japanese fashion magazines for example - Egg Magazine. The spreads include interviews and pictures of those who partake in alternative fashion, answering questions such as 'Where do you get your style inspiration from?' and 'What tips would you give?'

Monica Okello (b. 2001, London, UK) is an artist and designer with a keen focus on storytelling, identity and archival practices, often exploring themes around Black womanhood, memory, and the intersection of personal and collective histories within her work.

Monica is currently based in London, and is working on existing between there, Kampala and Dar es Salaam in the future. She received her BA in Graphic Communication Design (with Creative Computing), graduating with First Class Honours in July 2024.

For her first solo show, SARAPHINA, Monica presents a series of photographs taken during a trip to visit her family in Tanzania in December 2023. At the heart of this is a special moment shared with her niece, who she met for the first time on this trip — a meaningful reflection of Monica’s connection to her motherland and the familial bonds that exist beyond borders and generations.

Social media handles

@monicaokello

Drawing on his unique archive of photographs taken fifty years ago, Neil reveals more unseen images in parallel with those he has taken over the past two years. His images are powerful narratives that delve deep into the human experience, offering a raw, unfiltered look at the struggles, joys, and  resilience of the people of Hackney. He reveals, in often surprising ways,  the profound changes that have taken place over half a century, and what remains.  

Neil will be signing his latest book: Purim in HackneyKingsland Road, Hackney, 1973 and the first street theatre arrived to the bewilderment of locals.

Andy Hall is a London-based photographer specialising in reportage and portraiture, with over 35 yrs experience of working all over the world for numerous magazines and newspapers including the Observer and the Guardian; as well as NGO's including UNHCR. His work on the on-going climate crisis in the Sahel Region of Africa was screened at the Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan 2012. Andy has a growing reputation as a street photographer and has won accolades for his work in recent years, including the latest, which is from a set of photographs from the book project that has won him the Trieste Photo Days "Best Author" 2025 award judged by Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert'. He said of Andy's work : "His compositions stand out; he's pulling order from chaos and some of his images are truly powerful".

This is a body of work from wanderings through London's city within a city known as the Square Mile. It's a visual take on the Psycho geography of this unique area that has been at the heart of how our economies are now run. Seen through the eyes of a street photographer, the book captures candid moments where workers interact with their urban environment of narrow ancient streets jammed up against shiny new glass monuments to 21st Century global capitalism.

Social media handles

@andyXhall

Hosted in our Gallery, using Shrimpzine technology we wanted to make a drop in style event where you can hang out, chat zines and also make one too!

All you need is a smart phone and access to the internet! Shrimpzine is a free mobile web app accessible on any touch screen device. It has been designed to make zine making more accessible!

Tickets are £25, this also includes your first zine printed, then you pay for what you print; £5 Black and White, £10 Colour (between 8 and 32 pages), 2 zines maximum.

Facilitated in our basement gallery, from 18:00-20:00.

Please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.

We’ll begin with an automatic writing exercise, drawing out our experience of travelling to and arriving at Photobook Cafe. This will help to settle us in and relax us in the space.

Together, we’ll start to informally explore the photographs that Alex has brought to the session. This will involve group conversation and some free association writing exercises to shape our understanding of the images. 

Through a process of selection and collecting, we’ll begin to assemble our own archival folder, bringing images and text together to create a layered history. If you have brought your own images, you’ll be encouraged to use those in your archive, too.

To finish the session, we’ll each write an affirmation to the place in which we live. We’ll seal it in an envelope to store in our own personal archives, to be read - or not read - at a later date.

Please bring 3-5 images of your own to the session to include within the Archive. These can be images you took or found imagery.

HRP23 seeks to document the infinitely large into something intimately small.

An intentionally awkward, interactive publication traversing the infamous Haute Route Pyrenees.

Navigate through a selection of images and insights collected from people and places encountered along the way.

Curated and designed by Daniel Cole and Chris Christodoulou. A self-published 12 month project fuelled by sheftalia, tahini cake and endless cups of cinnamon chai.

Social media handles

@multi.face.ted, @chris_christodoulou

The Cici Workshop - Unleash your creativity in this two-part workshop, where you'll paint a candle and build a ceramic holder, blending pottery and painting for all skill levels.

Grab a drink at the bar and socialise with your friends whilst creating something beautiful for your home.

Welcome to Reframing Perfection: A Photography Exhibition by Ayo Fatuga!

Experience a unique visual journey through the lens of the talented photographer Ayo Fatuga. This exhibition showcases over 10 years of photography, featuring stunning images that challenge traditional notions of technical perfection and beauty within photography. Characterised by their imperfections, these photos celebrate where flaws become art and mistakes turn into masterpieces.

The evening will also feature live DJs, creating the perfect atmosphere to explore this captivating collection.

Scenes in a Library

With Tom Lovelace and Christine Serchia

Join Tom and Christine, your photobook librarians for the evening, as they transform the Photobook Café into a temporary library space for one night only. Attendees are invited to bring a photobook of their choosing with them; a publication which holds meaning and connection to them. 'Scenes in a Library' will begin with a conversation led by Tom and Christine who will share a selection of their personal books, and offer insights into their relationship with photobooks. The evening will evolve into a collaborative session, where participants will have an opportunity to explore the curation of photobooks making new discoveries, revisiting old favourites, and forming connections with others who share a love of reading photographs in a book. 

Image courtesy of photographer Phil Hewitt 

@philhewitt

Join Simon King for an evening of group learning, practical research and theoretical talks, covering;

-Why use a book/pages to tell your story?

-How do you figure out what story to tell? (intent) 

-Starting from scratch - how to create information and present it across the page (sequencing) 

Practice research: bring prints, or notes from active projects (if you have them) and we can open the space up for wider discussion to help focus the approach and bring you closer to the right direction. 

Tahis event will be held in our Gallery, please note our Gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.

Booking is essential £10 per person, 1 fee waiver ticket available, to enquire please email us at info@photobookcafe.co.uk

Marie Smith (she/they) is a neurodivergent visual artist and writer born, living, and working in London. Smith graduated in 2017 with an MA in History in Art with Photography at Birkbeck, University of London. Being a neurodivergent person with dyspraxia and anxiety has informed how they navigate the world. Marie’s practice incorporates audio, digital, and analogue media alongside text as a form of visual language that addresses identity, the body, nature, sustainability, mental health, and well-being. Marie’s lens-based approach incorporates low-toxic plant, food, or herb-based developers to process their analogue film. Due to this methodology not being transferable to developing colour film, Marie now only works with black and white and camera-less film processes. Marie has been exploring audio and workshops with collectives to deconstruct and reframe their position in institutional landscapes such as archives, museums, galleries, and nature. Marie is a Lecturer at Kingston University London and has previously lectured at Goldsmiths - University of London, and London College of Communication - UAL.

In 2022, Marie Smith worked as an artist-in-residence at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, home to Anna Atkins’ Study of British Algae, a groundbreaking work of cyanotype photography from 1848. While Atkins is celebrated as the first female photographer to publish a book of photographic illustrations, her family’s ties to Jamaica’s colonial history reveal a more complex legacy. Atkins’ husband, John Pelly Atkins, was the son of a plantation owner whose wealth—bolstered by compensation for enslaved individuals after abolition—helped fund her artistic practice.

As an artist of Jamaican heritage, Marie delves into this layered history in Extraction: In Conversation with Anna Atkins. This series of 30 bleached cyanotypes, inspired by Atkins’ methods, incorporates Marie’s reflections from the Horniman archives. The bleaching process becomes a means of transformation, offering commentary on Atkins’ legacy while reimagining the cyanotype tradition.

The works were first bound as a bespoke book acquired by the Horniman Museum. Now, Marie collaborates with Folium Publishing to release a limited-edition reimagining of Extraction, inviting audiences to engage with this dialogue on art, history, and agency through a reinterpretation of a 19th-century medium.

Social media handles

@folium_publishing & @marie_elaina_

Hosted in our Gallery, using Shrimpzine technology we wanted to make a drop in style event where you can hang out, chat zines and also make one too!

All you need is a smart phone and access to the internet! Shrimpzine is a free mobile web app accessible on any touch screen device. It has been designed to make zine making more accessible!

Tickets are £25, this also includes your first zine printed, then you pay for what you print; £5 Black and White, £10 Colour (between 8 and 32 pages), 2 zines maximum inclusive of your included zine.

Our workshops are facilitated in our basement gallery, please note our basement gallery has no step free access and 25 steps.

Irish designer Ruth Kent offers a glimpse into her textile world with the release of her debut photobook “for all the joy to come”. The launch and exhibition will be unveiled at Photobook Cafe on January 20th, 2025, from 6-10 PM. This bespoke book, designed by Thomas Black, tells the story of the courage needed to keep turning up in our continuous search for joy. The book launch will be accompanied by an exhibition showcasing her unseen textile work and narrative photography captured by her collaborator and friend, Pablo Gallegos. A limited edition of 50 books have been produced.

Social media handles

@ruthkentt

In this workshop we will learn to make abstract jazz infusions via the automation of virtual instruments and drum machines using randomisation, arpeggiation, chain selection, and MIDI effects to produce self-composing, generative music in Ableton Live. No prior experience is necessary! Requires a laptop, headphones, and installation of Ableton Live (free trial will work).

Anya Gorkova (b.1998) is an artist based in London, UK. Central Saint Martins Scholar, Anya graduated MA Contemporary Photography Practices and Philosophies in 2022 with a practice focused on “Photographic Materialities”

“I work with darkroom based processes, I use photo waste in my work and I am a darkroom hand printer. Essentially, what I do is expose light to light sensitive papers, upcycle darkroom handprints into objects and investigate the nature of things in metaphors of the objects I create. Most of my work is based on various books that I am researching.

Gorkova’s practice is an investigation of photographic potentialities. They ask questions rather than answer them. What is photographic? How do we do photography as a fine art practice in a world so oversaturated, exhausted by imagery? What photography can be? These are the focus points that are present within the conversations # on photography with Anya Gorkova

F studio (@fstudio__): is a multidisciplinary collective that hosts cultural events, supports artistic projects, and works with Eastern European diaspora.