Talk

Join artists Cooking Sections, Ilona Sagar and Leila Dear for a discussion on how to imagine new radical ways of living, practicing and existing in the world, by exploring ideas around resistance, the power of collaboration and rethinking systems and infrastructure. The conversation will be chaired by curator and educator, Anna Colin.

Join artist John Costi for an afternoon of honesty, humour, and solidarity, drawing from Instagram story rants that call out the contradictions and injustices of the art world — from class exclusion to the daily grind of being an under-supported artist.

Artist and filmmaker Onyeka Igwe will reflect on the layered histories of Somerset House — now home to the annual Artists’ Fair and over 70 studio resident artists.

Join artists Laura Grace Ford, Jamila Johnson-Small and Harun Morrison for a discussion on the shifting economic landscape in the UK by examining how housing precarity and domestic life shape the ways artists work.

During their residency at Somerset House Studios, American Artist will present an event as part of Grounding Practice.

With over 30 years behind the camera, Scarlet Page has built one of the most significant archives of music portraiture of their generation. Their work captures the raw emotion, energy, and evolution of some of the most influential artists and movements in modern culture. In this talk, Scarlet reflects on a life lived through photography – sharing the stories, creative challenges, and pivotal moments that have defined a career at the heart of music history.

In this talk, Lucy will share her love for street photography, why she prefers to wander the streets without preconceived ideas and a sense of curiosity, skills she has developed as a street photographer, and take us on a visual journey in her first year as a Nikon Creator. Lucy's work is candid and draws unexpected connections everywhere she aims her lens.

Robert Fairer is joined by Sonnet Stanfill and Adélia Sabatini to discuss the energy, chaos and beauty of the fashion world behind the scenes, shining a light on key moments from across his extensive career.

An introduction to the brand’s first cultural activation in the United Kingdom, celebrating its first 60 years and bringing to London the exhibition ‘In Y/our Life’ With Gianluigi Ricuperati, curator of the project, and Laura Pannack, the award-winning photographer and protagonist of one of K-Way’s most important commissions as a Presenting Partner of Photo London 2025.

Three Discovery artists, Rosie Emerson (Bright Gallery) Michelle Marshall and Rachel Fleminger Hudson (Sarabande Foundation) discuss their enthralling, wistful works, leading aesthetic shifts as part of a new generation in fashion photography in the UK, and how they are each inspired by and informed by their research into materials, costumes and the past. The discussion is moderated by writer Rosalind Jana.

End Times is a project that explores global environmental collapse and how we consume information about it, by reconsidering entrenched narratives and understanding. The images are journalistic in their attempt to present truth rather than agenda and artistic in the way they consider subjects and storytelling: visually, rather than editorially. The project is ongoing.