POST, 2nd Floor, Industrial House, Conway Street, Hove, BN3 3LW
Photoworks and our wonderful friends at POST are launching a free Hove-based photobook club for our members. With access to hundreds of books in the POST community photobook library, the aim is to build a supportive, creative network of photobook lovers, as well as a regular opportunity for Photoworks and POST members to meet and make connections.
The Photobook Club will take place on the third Tuesday of each month, 6pm-8pm, and will be open to 12 people who are members of either Photoworks or POST. On the same day each month, Photoworks members can also drop in and access the photobook library for research or simply to enjoy looking through the wonderful publications.
The POST community library is an expansive collection so we’d like our membership community to shape which books we read together. With that in mind, we will send a poll so you can vote on which photobook you would like us to focus on in the first session, and books for future sessions will be decided with our community as we go.
The first session – 21 April 2026
Artist and curator Danit Ariel will facilitate the first session, in which we will delve into Lauren Joy Kennett’s photobook, Sorry I’m Not Sorry. Sorry I’m Not Sorry, explores Lauren Joy Kennett’s experience of living with undiagnosed autism. Through autobiographical and archive photography, Lauren uses cutting and collaging techniques to explore self-discovery, and confrontation of life’s traumas and experiences that have shaped her existence.
This body of worked was commissioned as part of the In Focus programme for 2023 at Aspex, Portsmouth.
Danit Ariel is an artist, writer and curator, whose practice looks into how art can create new ways of meeting. She is the author of Nayah: Empathy as an Act of Resistance which explores the role of gender in practices of empathy; and All the Tables are Brown, looking more specifically at language as both a bridge and barrier between communities. As Photoworks’ curator, she mentors artists, develops opportunities for practitioners and audiences to engage with photography, and curates exhibitions nationally and internationally.
About the collaboration
POST is a new lens-based arts space near Hove train station, with affordable artist studios, a photographic studio, a darkroom, co-working space and more. Photoworks were delighted to move into a dedicated office at POST last September and since then, we have been adding our photobook archive, built over 30 years (!), to POST’s own collection. Because it’s a community library, the collection is continually expanding through donations from publishers, artists, local writers and libraries, alongside the Photoworks’ collection. In this time of growth, It felt like the perfect moment to launch an opportunity for Friends who are local or able to visit to join a photobook community.
A booking system for the April Photobook Club will launch soon. If you would like to visit the library on the same day or in future months, you can arrange this by emailing friends@photoworks.org.uk.
