Re-union @ FREE RANGE

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Saturday 12th July 2025 – 16:00 – 18:00
T3-C (1st Floor, F Block) Truman Brewery – Ely’s Yard, E1 6QR

bookRoom is please to host the first Photo@UCA Farnham Re-union as part of FREE RANGE 2025 Photo BA/MFA London show. All past students and staff are invited.

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‘The Book as…’ Photobook Award for current exhibitors and 2024 alumni, (given by Emma Lambert, Matt Johnston and Riikka Kassinen) and social speed dating for all.

Re-union @ FREE RANGE is an invitation to Farnham’s Photography alumni to gather in London and connect with the new crop of graduates to celebrate together the long history of Photography at Farnham. This will include the UCA Photography Class of 2005 – 20-Year Reunion !

PRESS RELEASE

Olivia Labana (MFA graduate 2025) was chosen for The Book as… Possibility award and Ming-Yi Sung (MFA graduate 2024) for The Book as… Connection award. Both will receive mentoring sessions from the three members of the jury and their photobooks are now part of the bookRoom collection at UCA farnham library.

The jury was impressed by the diversity of the publications submitted. Olivia’s Your Words (my) Hurt was chosen for its complex narratives and use of text to explore an incredibly powerful and personal story of grief. Ming-Yi’s Looking for Nirvana was chosen for its creative use of the book form to explore love, intimate relationships and deep connections.

The Book as… is an iterative project run by Emma Lambert and Matt Johnston, asking what roles the physical book performs in a screen-oriented moment.

Matt Johnston (@m.att.johnston_) is a visual practitioner, educator and researcher based at Coventry University where he leads the MA in Photography (@makingandmakingpublic). His 2021 publication ‘Photobooks &’ (Onomatopee, 2021), co-edited by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, built on his PhD research at UCA with bookRoom (2020) and was shortlisted for the Arle Prix du Livre Historique.

Emma Lambert is an artist, educator and lecturer on the Photography programmes at Coventry University. She is a practice-based PhD researcher with bookRoom at UCA Farnham, and founder of her own imprint, Silvergrass Press, a collaborative publishing experiment that merges her research and practice and asks, ‘Where are you a local?’.

Riikka Kassinen(Alumni 2005) works with Karl Ohiri as a collaborative duo. Their ongoing cultural heritage project The Lagos Studio Archives, preserves and works with endangered film negatives from Lagos photography studios; striving to give visibility to their practices, stories and contributions to Nigerian photographic history by making their work accessible for present and future generations.

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