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Artist Talk: Carment Winant

Carmen Winant's practice draws on photographic tools to center feminist struggle, discourse and movement building, aiming to visualise the human beings who do the political ? and often, very quotidian ? work of caring and organizing on the ground. In this experimental lecture Winant centres intergenerational feminist inheritance as a subject (and strategy) across her projects. How do our priorities mount and shift; in what ways are past failures made evident in that exercise? What might that ultimately teach us about the possibilities of our present, as it comes to liberation struggle?

Artist Talk: Lisa Barnard

Coinciding with her presentation in Soho Photography Quarter, hear Lisa Barnard discuss our the troubled history of gold, our reverence for it and its role in our endless pursuit of progress - the focus of her public installation of her multi-year project, The Canary and The Hammer

Boris Mikhailov & Zofia Rydet

Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary | Zofia Rydet: Sociological Record | Click! 100 Years of the Photobooth | 10 October 2025 to 22 February 2026

BSL Tour: Zofia Rydet

Join this BSL tour of Zofia Rydet led by John Wilson.

Course: Collecting Photography 2025

Join photo specialists Brandei Estes and Hannah Watson in this four-week course to gain insight of the exciting world of photography.

Course: Collecting Photography Paris Photo (2025)

Join photography specialist Brandei Estes on a tour of Paris Photo 2025 and put your skills to the test.

Image: Gohar Dashti installation in Paris Photo 2024.

Course: Reading Photobooks

Discover new perspectives on photobook theory and practice in this five-week course led by curator and art historian Dr Briony Carlin.

Course: The Workings of a Photo Gallery (2026)

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the photographic sector through this eight-week course led by Dr Sara Dominici.

Course:Photography in Eastern and Central Europe

Online Course | Visual Resistance and Politics of the Everyday: Photography in Eastern and Central Europe 1940s?Today

Join artist Tereza Zelenkov? for a six-week course exploring how hotography has shaped the cultural, political and social landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe from the 1940s to the present.
This course examines the role of photography as a tool of resistance, documentation and imagination across Central and Eastern Europe. Moving beyond Western-centric frameworks, it highlights the intersections of gender, class and politics in photographic practice ? tracing how artists have engaged with everyday life, socialist ideologies, underground subcultures, political upheavals and post-socialist transformations.

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Develop, shape your story

Develop, Tami Aftab

Develop, working in a collective

online event with develop alumni

Talk: Gunseli Yalcinkaya

How can folklore help us to navigate today?s digital chaos? In this talk we consider how folklore has become critical for understanding new forms of digital communication.

Hear G?nseli Yalcinkaya explores this intricacies of online culture, proposing new media theory that invites the distant past into the near future.

Talk: On the HIstory of the Photobooth

Hear about the history of the photobooth with leading experts and co-directors of AUTOFOTO Rafael Hortala Vallve and Corinne Quin.

Talk: On Zofia Rydet

Curator Karolina Ziebinska gives an overview of the life and work of Polish photographer Zofia Rydet.

Talk: Tracing Ukrainian Photography

From Silence to Witness: Tracing Ukrainian Photography Through History

Emerging from the heavily constructed narratives such as domestic (otechestvennaya) or Soviet photography, Ukrainian photography is gradually rediscovering its genealogy and a profound connection to historical events that shaped contemporary Ukraine. These events have long captivated photographers with a documentary sensibility, drawn to the truthful depiction of profound historical transformations. In this talk, Max Gorbatskyiand, Michael Kurtz and Kateryna Filyuk address photography?s role in bearing witness to pivotal historical moments such as the Chornobyl disaster, the Revolution of Dignity, and the ongoing war to explore key milestones and figures in the development of Ukrainian photography from the mid-20th century to the present day.

Teachers' Workshop: GenAI in the Classroom

How do teachers engage with Generative AI critically and creatively? Join us for this session for Teachers and Educators interested in AI visual literacy

Workshop: Broken Portraits

Inspired by the problems encountered with a photobooth, play with the idea of portraiture and all the "imperfections" possible from experimenting with the chemical, mechanical and material processes in this evening workshop led by leading photobooth experts and AUTOFOTO co-directors Rafael Hortala Vallve and and Corinne Quin.