We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the two-week International Urban Photography Summer School(iUPSS), which was previously run from Goldsmiths College for some eight years. As you will be aware, Gill Golding helped run this for several years, alongside her involvement with LIP as chair. We are in the process of setting up a…

For several years in the 1970s, I was a part-time lecturer at the AA and spent many happy hours photographing the architects and others working there. This new zine shows a wide range of staff who were either well-known already or later became so. It includes Cedric Price, Su Rogers, Mike Gold, Alvin Boyasky, Sir…

If you missed the presentation you can still view the Zoom talk Rod gave to LIP a few years ago. This is available together with other photographer talks in the LIP Members Area. Log in, head to the Members Area and click on LIP Talks

Home From Home is an intimate documentary project by Evgeniya Strygina that investigates the fluid meaning of “home” for those displaced by conflict. The photographer captures the stories of people who left their native countries and became immigrants, whether by force or by choice. Through photography, Strygina explores what constitutes a sense of belonging—memories, rituals,…

‘What we see’ is a collaborative photographic project between Arun Misra, and Imogen Bloor, with poems by Poonam Jain. All three are deeply troubled by what they see happening in Palestine. Each had individually been responding to the situation through their own work in different ways. Collectively they have strived to navigate and articulate their…

Congratulations to John Walmsley awarded second place in the World Street Photo Award (The Decisive Moment section).. When my self-published book on Wester Hailes came out with this photo on the cover, I had an email from a woman who said, “ That was my dog. He was called, ‘Snowy’”. Apparently, he used to stand…

LIP has been nominated in the Photo Community of the Year category in the Amateur Photographer Readers’ Choice Awards. The curated shortlist comprises those creators who received the most nominations from the AP community in last year’s awards, and LIP have already received a few votes for this year’s awards. The winner will be presented with a crystal trophy…

New self-published zine in my series of early B&W documentary work. This one about A S Neill’s democratic school, Summerhill, where you don’t have to go to lessons if you don’t want to. Shot when I was still a student at art school, it was the basis for my first photobook, published as an Education…

This devised play, developed by the acclaimed Tectonic Theater Project centres around the recent discovery of previously unseen photographs taken by a member of the SS during World War II. The images, which are now housed in a museum archive, explore the tension between leisure imagery, military context and memory in this documentary-style telling. The…

Amin Nazari’s project Anxious Frames has been selected as one of the Top 3 projects in the Member category of the RPS Documentary Photography Awards 2025. Organised by the Royal Photographic Society’s Documentary Group, this biennial award has been running since 2012 and showcases exceptional documentary work and visual storytelling across three categories: Open, Student,…