4th June 2025

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5 Jun

© Gabriel Pinto. Winner of the People’s Choice Award and joint winner of the 2025 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, alongside Silvana Trevale.

THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST…

The annual pilgrimage to the Photo London fair, in the year of its 10th anniversary, and a visit to A Bigger Book Fair at Peckham24 in an attempt to sell some unwanted photobooks.

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Full bio and show notes with a link to the contributors in the episode here.

ALSO…

Friend of the podcast and contributor to this week's episode, Zed Nelson, launches his new book The Anthropocene Illusion (Guest Editions) this week (Thursday 5th June) in London at Guest Projects Space, 119 Hackney Downs Studios, London E8 2BT. 18.00-21.00.

Spanning the last six years, ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’ explores how, while we destroy the natural world around us, we humans have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature — a reassuring spectacle, an illusion. Listen to Zed talk about the project on this week's podcast.

If you would like to attend the launch RSVP Zed via his Instagram bio.

ALSO...

From 13 June to 22 September 2025, In advance of its planned five year closure for renovation, the Centre Pompidou in Paris is giving German artist Wolfgang Tillmans free rein to create a unique project to mark the end of the exhibition programme at the centre. He is taking over the 6,000 m2 of level 2 in the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information (Bpi) and transforming the space by means of a curatorial experiment. This installation creates a dialogue between his work and the library space, questioning it both as an architectural structure and as a place for the dissemination of knowledge.

The retrospective exhibition explores over thirty-five years of artistic practice across various photographic genres, including portraiture, still life, architecture, documentary images and abstraction. His work is displayed in a wide variety of ways, playing on the verticality of the walls and the horizontality of the tables in a manner which defies any attempt at categorisation. In addition to his photographic work, Tillmans has incorporated moving images, music, sound and words into this extensive installation, together with contributions from performance artists.