Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular

Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance of everyday image-making, developed in collaboration with the University of Westminster and in conjunction with Photoworks' publication, Photography+.

The event took place on March 23, 2026, at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, in London.
In the coming weeks, we will publish the two roundtable discussions and two presentations from the programme, one by one.

Two collecting entities have been invited to bring a single photograph of particular significance to them and to speak about their personal connection to it. More than a showcase, this offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from collectors about what it feels like to encounter – and hold on to – an image.

In the first video, Timothy Prus, who has served as curator of the Archive of Modern Conflict since 1992, discusses a press photograph he discovered in a small local newspaper along the Amazon River, in the border region of Leticia, Colombia, which connects to the larger Brazilian city of Tabatinga and, together with the Peruvian city of Santa Rosa de Yavarí, forms a tri-border urban area.

(The video begins with a brief camera adjustment, which may be slightly distracting, but we chose to include it to ensure the beginning of the talk was not omitted.)

You can find the original event description of Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures here.
You can watch all videos of the one-day event at this link.

Cover image: © Archive of Modern Conflict