PhotoMonth – Relaunching October 2025

PhotoMonth returns in October 2025, relaunching with a renewed energy and expanded vision. This year, we’ll be exhibiting photography across all London areas with an “E” postcode—from EC1 to SE15, from Hackney to Deptford.

Open Call & Exhibition Submissions Now Open
Submit your work for solo and group exhibitions until 30 June 2025. Selected submissions will feature in established galleries, alternative venues, and curated pop-up spaces across the city.

What to Expect
This year’s PhotoMonth will showcase the full breadth of photographic practice—from personal to political, street to landscape, portraiture to conceptual work. Expect work from LGBTQ+ artists, early-career photographers, and international names alike. All genres, all voices, all processes welcome.

Highlights include:

• Collaborations with major institutions, including Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Autograph ABP, Four Corners, Gray Gallery, and others.
• The PhotoMonth Hub at Mile End Art Pavilion, is hosting the Open Call exhibition selected by the Curatorial Advisory Board, an exhibition by Zed Nelson (The Anthropocene Illusion), and work from recent graduates and academic staff from across the UK.
• City-wide QR-coded interactive map, listing every show and venue for visitors to explore.
• Weekend walking tours led by photographers, curators, and the PhotoMonth team—guiding audiences through exhibition clusters in different neighbourhoods.
• Night walks in Bermondsey, Deptford, and the Docklands.
• Film screenings related to photography, including Q&As with directors and actors, hosted at Hackney Picturehouse.
• Flyposting of photographic works in key cultural areas.
• A mini-symposium on the theme of “Longing”.

A Democratic Celebration of Photography
From 2 October to 3 November 2025, PhotoMonth will continue to create a democratic platform where photographers of any age, gender, or practice can exhibit their work. It remains committed to showcasing photography in all its forms, making space for underrepresented voices, experimental processes, and urgent ideas.

This relaunch is also a tribute to Maggie Pinhorn, Director of Alternative Arts, who founded the original PhotoMonth festival, which ran successfully from 2001 to 2018 across East London.