To mark Photoworks’ 30th anniversary, we are delighted to announce the four artists selected for the inaugural P5 Photo Poetry Pamphlet series, to be published in Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026.
Autumn 2025
Andrew Zawacki
Vik Shirley
Spring 2026
Siddharth Khajuria
Charlie Fitz and Oscar Vinter
P5 is a new photography and poetry pamphlet series directed by Photoworks in partnership with David Solo, and designed by Jane & Jeremy. Each edition will be sold through Photoworks online shop, stockists and related events.
Photography and poetry have been in dialogue since the earliest days of the camera. The space between these forms invites layered meaning, unexpected emotion, and new ways of seeing. Yet despite nearly 200 years of such work and many stand out examples, photo-poetry has not been widely recognised as a distinct genre.
Today, there is a growing interest in this field – especially by practitioners working with poetry and photography, but also increasingly across performance, video and other media. To further encourage, support and draw attention to the possibilities of such combinations, we decided to launch a new pamphlet series called P5.
Our open call invited submissions of unpublished work from artists from around the world. We were thrilled to receive over 100 entries, showcasing an exciting range of topics, modes of collaboration, design approaches and forms – each exploring how text, image and page can combine in meaningful, experimental, and unexpected ways.
Stay tuned for news about the P5 launch.
An alumnus of Penumbra’s Long Term Photobook Program and the Chico Review, Andrew Zawacki is fascinated by contemporary expressions and renovations of the pastoral. Over the last decade, his hybrid text-image projects have centered on the poetics of Paris graffiti, Tang Dynasty lyrics and landscape painting, and geographies of the American South. Zawacki is the author of six poetry books, most recently These Late Eclipses. He has also published several books in France, where he was a finalist for the Prix Nelly Sachs, and his translations have earned a French Voices Grant, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. A former Howard Foundation Fellow in Poetry, he is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Andrew’s P5 pamphlet will be released in Autumn 2025.
Vik Shirley
Vik Shirley is a poet based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Shirley’s photo poetry is a hyper-focused, obsessive play with fragmentation, time shifts, the multiple selves and the intensity of life through colour, aesthetic and the lens of the neurodivergent mind. Her photo poetry has been exhibited at Touching/Reading exhibition in Malmö, Sweden and at the Photo Poetry Surfaces exhibition, Bristol, UK. Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid, her first collection of photo poetry, was published by Hesterglock Press in 2021. Her second, Strangers Wave, was published by zimZalla in 2023. Vik is also a surrealist poet and her most recent book is Some Deer, which was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2024. She has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham.
Vik’s P5 pamphlet will be released in Autumn 2025.
Siddharth is a British-Indian artist and producer, based in suburban London. He uses photography and writing to make images, books, zines and objects. His work traces the tension between assimilation and resistance in our social and natural habitats.
Recent projects include a series of painted photographs, Your Careful Facades, and the book I’m Just Making Noise Really, a communal portrait built from the words of friends. Earlier this year, he also co-produced A Map of the Moon, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about human imaginations for the moon.
He’s the co-founder and Director of Grand Plan, a charity that awards £1,000 grants to UK-based artists of colour, and was previously Senior Producer at the Barbican, and Director of Science Gallery London.
Siddharth’s P5 pamphlet will be released in Spring 2026 .
Partners in art and life, Charlie Fitz (She/They) and Oscar Vinter (He/They) currently live in Devon, the UK with their dog Stanley. Together they create work that explores relationships of care, memory, illness and embodiment in a range of mediums from photography, music and the moving image. Fitz is a self-taught artist, writer and medical humanities researcher. She is a founding member of Resting Up Collective and a co-director of the remote artist studio TRIAD³. Her work is rooted in expressing and exploring her embodied experience of living whilst sick and disabled. Vinter is an Afropean, neurodivergent multimedia artist, filmmaker, composer and audio-visual researcher. Their work is interested in blending the mythic and the personal in various mediums from photography, writing to music and film.
charliefitzartist.co.uk
oscarvinter.com
Charlie and Oscar’s P5 pamphlet will be released in Spring 2026.
