Copeland Park, Peckham, London
Photoworks is delighted to be collaborating with Peckham24 on this year’s talks and events programme, celebrating the festival’s 10th anniversary – The ERAS Edition from 15 to 17 May 2026. Across a three-day programme, artists and writers will come together to explore photography through the multifaceted aspects of time.
The programme features photo-poetry, panel discussions, a print swap and participatory workshops, including a special evening of live poetry readings, and a collaborative peer crit workshops led by artist group Peer Matters. Most events are free but booking is required – links will go live on this page by the end of the week, along with further programme announcements.
Photoworks will also be at A Bigger Book Fair throughout Peckham24, presenting a selection of publications and launching the latest two volumes of P5, our photo-poetry pamphlet series (no booking required). We look forward to seeing you there!
Programme
Saturday 16 May
In at least one dream! Photo-poetry night
7pm – 9pm
Join us for a poetry night featuring four artists performing works that connect with photography, each with distinct perspectives and encounters with image-making.
The line-up includes award winning poet Roger Robinson, whose collaboration with artist Johny Pitts on Home Is Not a Place saw them travel across the UK reflecting on Black Britishness. Also performing are Fitz & Vinter whose collaborative, interdisciplinary practice is rooted in themes of care, memory and illness.
They are joined by Siddharth Khajuria, an artist working across photography and writing to explore social assimilation and resistance, and Mitchell Robertson, whose poetry examines class and masculinity through storytelling.
Following the performances, we will continue the night with drinks and the opportunity to browse photobooks, including P5, Photoworks’ new photo-poetry pamphlet series which will be available to buy on the night.
Find out more about the artists below.
Book for free here
Sunday 17 May
Peer Matters: Suggestions for Gathering (Workshop)
11am – 1pm
In this workshop, participants will share and respond to one another’s images, engage with a series of creative prompts, and reflect on how they each gather and sustain elements within their practice – whether sparks, materials, ideas, relationships, or methods of making that are evolving slowly, remaining in the background, or acting as constant anchors. By the end of the workshop, the group will have produced a collaborative outcome.
Find out more about Peer Matters below.
Please register your interest for this workshop via the link below by Wednesday 13th May at midnight. As places are limited, we will confirm participation for the workshop by email on Thursday 14th May, ensuring a diverse representation of photographic practices. The workshop is free of charge.
Artist’s Biographies
Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020) and the Cholmondeley Award (2024). He is a Royal Society of Literature Fellow and has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, and the European Prize for Freedom. His collection A Portable Paradise was named a New Statesman Book of the Year. His book Home Is Not a Place, created in collaboration with Johny Pitts, was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year and shortlisted for the British Book Awards.
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. Working across photography, music, writing and the moving image, they explore how creative collaboration can hold and transform lived experience.
Fitz is a self‑taught artist and writer. A member of Resting Up Collective and co‑director of the remote artist studio TRIAD³, her work is grounded in expressing and examining her embodied experience of living while sick and disabled. Vinter is an Afropean, neurodivergent multimedia artist, filmmaker, composer and universitylecturer. His practice weaves together the mythic and the personal, moving fluidly between photography, writing, sound and film.
Mitchell is an actor, writer and filmmaker from Cumbernauld in Scotland. Carried by a narrative driven style, Mitchell’s written work explores class and masculinity, with a strong focus on story in an attempt to delineate where things often begin and where they end. Some of his poetry performance credits include; The Roundhouse and La Poste Rodier in Paris. On Screen you can see him most recently in the new HBO/BBC drama Half Man.
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. 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
Peer Matters is a group of fourteen artists from across the UK who make, share and muddle through together. They originally came together in early-2024 as part of a programme supported by Photoworks. Meeting both remotely and in person, their shared dialogue and work take multiple forms: group critiques, DIY residencies, the design and facilitation of workshops, tabling at book fairs, collective self-publishing, and more. Alongside these activities, they sustain an ongoing exchange through the quieter, in-between dialogues that shape practice – offering space for one another as questions around making, labour, and money unfold and overlap.
