Documentary Photography and London Photo Culture

An independent journal about documentary photography

Photo Forum publishes profiles of documentary photographers, photojournalists and portrait makers, alongside guides to the talks, exhibitions and spaces that make up photography life in London. The emphasis is on how the work was made and where to see more of it, with sources you can follow rather than claims you have to take on trust.

A large part of the site is organised around photographers who presented projects at London photography talks between 2017 and 2020. We are not connected with the group that ran those talks, and we do not organise events of our own. We use that period as a map of who was showing documentary work in the city, and we write about the work itself. Start with the photographer profiles, the guide to photography talks in London, or the journal.