Past Events

Wednesday 1 September

This one-time screening presents director Jessica Villerius's powerful documentary Marvel Harris: Everything is Now, which follows the personal and artistic journey that produced the winner of this year's First Book Award, Marvel Harris' MARVEL.

Friday 17 September

Join Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine at Librairie Sans Titre, Paris, where he will be signing copies of his latest book, Double Orbit, an investigation of the mysterious symbols embedded in the everyday urban landscapes which surround us.

Friday 17 September

Join Jeffrey Ladd and Michael Mack as they discuss the extensive process of research, curation, and design behind Ladd's new book A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture. As well as discussing the book's evolution, they will reflect on the social and political moment to which it responds and the suggestions it makes about the multiple meanings of images.

Sunday 27 March

The stories we tell about our lives can be a source of inspiration, shame, revelation, happiness, confusion, and everything in between. In this event, we are joined by Lynne Tillman, Ahndraya Parlato, and Juliet Jacques, three authors who have approached the subject of memoir in diverse and unique ways, to discuss what it means to write from life, the variety of forms memoir can take across writing and art, and what the act of looking back can tell us about the creative process.

Thursday 19 August

To celebrate the release of her new book Who Is Changed and Who Is Dead, Ahndraya Parlato meets artist Charlie Engman in New York City to discuss the ways their work explores the conditions and contradictions of motherhood and childhood through wide-ranging photographic techniques and material forms.

Thursday 26 August

Join artist Marvel Harris and Mariama Attah, curator at Open-Eye Gallery and member of the 2021 First Book Award jury, at Webber Gallery, London, as they discuss Marvel's prize-winning book and celebrate the opening of the accompanying exhibition.

Thursday 5 August

Once neighbours in New York, Collier Schorr and Moyra Davey meet again online for an informal conversation on breaking forms and boundaries, on collaboration and community, and on their shared experiences of living in Brooklyn in the late ‘80s onwards.

Thursday 12 August

Join Bertien van Manen and editor and designer Hans Gremmen as they reflect on the process of creating Van Manen’s new book Archive, drawing on five decades of work made across the world. As they recall the project’s challenges and surprises, they discuss travel, autobiography, and the long lives of images.