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BOP – Books on Photography – is the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society, held in Bristol across the second weekend of October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events, street food, coffee and beer.
BOP 2024 will coincide with the Read More
Photography – A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category ‘Queer’. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities.
How has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ Read More
Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.
In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues Read More
We live in a time where the development of trends, technology, and politics is going at a breakneck pace. Moore’s law predicts that the amount of information, the amount of computing power, and the amount of memory power required, will double every other year in our hyper-technological society. This rapid acceleration changes how we interact Read More
Contemporary Photobooks from Australia is an evening of talks celebrating the display New Photobooks from Australia, curated by PHOTO Australia for the V&A’s Photography Centre. This symposium will feature a selection of women and non-binary artists who will speak about their practice and the experience of marking art in Australia today.
With opening remarks by Duncan Read More
A lineup of photobook publishers from across the UK and Europe will be showcasing the latest in photography and publishing at BOP 24, the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society. The weekend will be accompanied by a programme of artist talks, exhibitions, events, book signings, street food, coffee and Read More
In the US, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police. More than any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of and memorial to victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique Read More
This new book, published to mark the centenary of Bohm’s birth, showcases the diversity of her work and her profound empathy for the human condition. It contains texts by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Martin Barnes and Rachel Wallace with additional contributions from Maria Balshaw, Katy Barron, Colin Ford CBE, Anna Fox, Lydia Goldblatt, Mark Haworth-Booth, Amanda Hopkinson, Ian Read More
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this Read More
