A Democratic Celebration of Photography
PhotoMonth Festival. A Democratic Celebration of Photography
From 2 October to 3 November 2025, PhotoMonth will transform London’s “E” postcodes into a month-long celebration of photography. The relaunched festival spans neighbourhoods from EC1 to SE15 with over 50 pop-up exhibitions and established galleries from Kennington to Mile End, Clerkenwell to Camberwell and Hackney to Stratford – across both institutional and alternative spaces, including museums, churches, libraries, cafés, and architectural practices.
The Festival programme includes a series of film screenings, workshops, artists talks and portfolio reviews. To celebrate the 100 years anniversary of the Photo Booth, PhotoMonth is launching a special competition in collaboration with AutoPhoto for the best portrait. Find your AutoFoto booth at Yorkton Workshops (part of the Wonderland exhibition), The Photographers Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery to take part.A parallel film programme runs throughout the month, exploring the intersections between photographyand film. Each screening will be followed by a live Q&A with directors, photographers and special guests.
Join us for the first event of this series at The Source where together we will immerse ourselves in an evening of wonderful artistry as, together, we enjoy ''The Wordless Diary" by Rod Morris, based on the book The Photo Diaries of Mick Willliamson.
An exhibition of photographs by Barry Lewis, "Intersections", a study of London through portraits and words of the people, will also launch during the evening, with the artist present.
Lewis started as a chemistry teacher with photography as a hobby until 1974, when he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art and studied photography under Bill Brandt. In 1976 he won the Vogue award and worked for a year with the magazine. In 1977 he received an arts council grant to photograph commuting in London, which was exhibited in the Museum of London and the Southbank. In 1981 & 83 he was exhibited in the Photographers Gallery, for ‘New Work on Britain’ and a solo show, ‘A Week in Moscow’. Working mainly for magazines, in 1999 he was a co-founder of the photo agency Network which played an important role in British Photojournalism for over 20 years.
A regular contributor to Life Magazine, National Geographic, and the Sunday Times, Barry has worked globally until 2014 and made over 20 books. His latest book, GULAG was a finalist for the Lucie Photobook Awards. He has exhibited throughout the world and received several awards including the Leica medal for humanitarian photography.
From 2015 for 5 years Barry worked mainly on documentary films but returned to photography in 2021 when he started his current ongoing work, “Intersections”
