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 second video, the Photobooth Technicians Project – represented by Jen Grasso, photobooth technician and archivist at the University of Brighton Design Archives, and co-creator of the analogue photobooth community archive – offers an insight into their practice. Through the Photobooth Technicians Project, she reflects on the community it engages while presenting a photobooth strip by a lesser-known yet significant figure within it.

On this link, you can also read an interview with Jen Grasso and Marco Ferrari, founders of the Photobooth Technicians Project, conducted by Eidolon director Róza Tekla Szilágyi.

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: © Photobooth Technician Project