We are pleased to announce all four pamphlets by Siddharth Khajuria, Fitz & Vinter, Andrew Zawacki and Vik Shirley have been published and are now available in our online shop.
P5 is a new photography and poetry pamphlet series directed by Photoworks in partnership with David Solo, and designed by Jane & Jeremy. This pamphlets series was created to encourage and support artists exploring how text, image and page can combine in meaningful, experimental, and unexpected ways.
You can read more about the artists and these new works in Hannah Geddes’ article Without Rivalry or Redundancy. Part of Photography+ In at least one dream! #30.
Giving Notice by Siddharth Khajuria
Assembled from parallel archives of an artist’s film photography and poetry, Giving Notice is “a reluctant love letter to the decisions that we make and the often-monotonous nature of life”.¹
Siddharth Khajuria is an artist and producer based in suburban London. He often assembles work from archives of his own photography, writing and correspondence.
¹from Hannah Geddes’ article Without Rivalry or Redundancy. Part of Photography+ In at least one dream! #30.
Promise to be Tender by Fitz and Vinter
Promise to be Tender is a collaborative photography and poetry pamphlet by long‑term partners in art and life, Fitz and Vinter. Created across a decade marked by illness, precarity and continual movement, the work brings together 35mm and 120mm film, Polaroids, collage and poems that trace the textures of everyday care.
Partners in art and life, Charlie Fitz (she/they) and Dr Oscar Vinter (he/they) are Birmingham‑based artists whose collaborative practice centres care, memory, illness and embodiment.
Endscape by Andrew Zawacki
The photographs in Endscape try to revive the clandestine obscurity of the American South. The deceptive beauty of this place is seductive and abject at once—and natural beauty is little other than history failing to unfold. Zawacki’s interlaced poems speaks more explicitly of its author’s experience as a citizen laboring under the convening pressures of climate collapse, forever war, acute political distress, and the directives of global capital run amok.
An alumnus of Penumbra’s Long Term Photobook Program and the Chico Review, Andrew Zawacki is the author of six poetry books, most recently These Late Eclipses.
Persona Digitalia by Vik Shirley
Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image each housed in its own grid. One grid so tight that no trace of the subject is visible. The pairs represent having your cake and eating it; the indecision of life; the desire to want both things; and the inability to choose. They represent the double self.
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.
