Andy Hall

Andy is a London-based editorial photographer with over 35 yrs experience of working for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines; specialising in reportage and portraits. 

He also has a passion for street photography and has recently won the Trieste Photodays 2025 "Best Author" award curated by Harry Gruyaert which features work from his book on the City of London's Square Mile titled "The Same For Everyone" (published by Snap Collective).

@andyxhall

www.andyhallphotographer.com

Chris Dorley-Brown

Chris set up his Hackney based darkroom off Mare Street in 1984 documenting east London. Concentrating on social housing, public places, hospitals, workplaces, and architecture.. At present Chris’s office and archive is based in a tower block in Newham’s Carpenters Estate.

Recent publications include photo books,

“The Art of Dissent” (Marshgate Press) 2012, ”The Longest Way Round" (Overlapse) 2015, ” Drivers in the 1980s" (Hoxton Mini-Press) 2015, “The Corners” (Hoxton Mini-Press) 2018 “A History of the East End” (Nouveau Palais Editions) 2024 “Near Dark” (November)) 2025 “Custom House” (Royal College of Art)) 2025

He is represented by Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) and The Photographers Gallery (London).

@chrisdorleybrown

www.modrex.com

Freya Najade

Freya Najade is a photographer whose work centres on the relationship between people and place.

In recent years, she has focused especially on documenting East London’s changing landscape, attempting to preserve a moment in time as gentrification steadily sanitizes the eccentricity and rawness that once defined this area of London. This ongoing exploration has led to the series Hackney Colours and Ridley Road Market, as well as the photobooks The Hackney Marshes (2022) and Along the Hackney Canal (2016). Her projects often unfold over long periods, combining a poetic sensibility with a documentary approach.

@freyanajade

www.freyanajade.com

Jenny Lewis

Jenny’s projects have been extensively exhibited nationally and internationally in The National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Photo 22, Melbourne, and various permanent public art presentations in community Spaces, such as Britannia Leisure Centre in Hackney. Jenny’s work includes One Day Young 2015, Hackney Studios 2018, One Hundred Years 2021 and UnBecoming 2022- present. She will be presenting this new work at Photo Oxford later this year.

 @_jennylewis_

jennylewis.net

Jenny Matthews

Jenny Matthews  is a documentary photographer, film maker and recently, embroiderer.She has lived in Hackney since 1984 and, between foreign assignments, has photographed life on her doorstep as the borough has changed enormously. 

@jennymphoto

website

Martin Usborne

Martin Usborne is the co-founder of Hoxton Mini Press, a small independent publisher that has printed a number of books about East London. Before that, and when he had more time, he worked as a photographer and published a number of books, many about man’s relation to other animals, including Dogs in Cars (2012).

@hoxtonminipress

martinusborne.com / Hoxtonminipress.com 

Olivia Harris

Olivia Harris is a recovering photo-journalist who has worked for Reuters, the New York Times and Time magazine. She's won top prizes in her industry including first prize at World Press Photo for a story about how Ireland overturned it’s abortion laws. She now makes portrait and long form documentary work for private and commercial clients. 

Her photographic relationship with East London began at the Hackney Gazette. It birthed her first long form East London story The Fast and the Studious; an amazing spectacle of school graduates and fast cars set against the landscape of Tower Hamlets.

Days on Repeat is the work she’s showing here. It was shot during the intense early days of the first Covid lockdown, when life was uncertain and a strange manic energy filled the empty streets. It was the hottest Spring on record. It felt wrong to enjoy the sunshine but right to stay at home. These images are about east Londoners exploring those strange new boundaries. 

@oliviaharris_shoots / @moochi.studio

https://www.olivia-harris.co.uk/

Tamara Stoll

Tamara Stoll is a photographer, artist and educator. She is interested in how individuals and groups shape a place, exploring the often unwritten histories of community formation and resistance. Her practice combines documentary photography, archival research, and dialogue with self-publishing. Tamara teaches on the Documentary Photography BA at LCC (UAL) and currently works on several collaborative workshops and publishing projects. 

Sixteen Points of Connections  (River Lea, 2022-ongoing)

@tamara.rabea

tamararabea.com

Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning artist working in photography and film. He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of East London. His work is exhibited around the world in leading galleries and museums.

Tom lives and works in Hackney, East London, where he has worked on numerous community engagement projects including The Serpentine Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Holly Street Public Arts Trust, Help the Aged, Hackney Council and the Museum of London.

Tom has earned several awards including the Photographic Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is the only artist to have a solo photography show at the National Gallery, London with his series Living in Hell and Other Stories. His work has been exhibited internationally including Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery Washington DC, USA and has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K. Dorky Park Dance company, Germany and The Serpentine Gallery, London. He has produced 8 photographic monographs including The Way Home, Le Crowbar and Where Have all the Flowers Gone. His work is in many museum collections around the world including, The Tate, London, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The National Gallery, Washington DC, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

@tomhunterphotography

www.tomhunter.org

Zed Nelson

Zed Nelson is a photographer known for long-term projects that explore contemporary society. His critically acclaimed film 'The Street' (2019) focusses on one street in East London over a four-year period - a film about love and loss, gentrification and the nation's slide into Brexit. The feature-length documentary was inspired by Nelson’s last book, ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ (2014, Hoxton Mini Press) - a reflection on the area of London that Nelson grew up in, now facing rapid change and gentrification.

Nelson has previously published two monographs; ‘Gun Nation’, and ‘Love Me’ - both receiving multiple awards and touring as solo exhibitions. His new book ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’ (2025, Guest Editions) is published this month. The six-year project received the overall prize in this year’s 2025 Sony World Photography Awards.

@zed_nelson

zednelson.com

The Anthropocene Illusion