Peckham 24 turns 10 with time-themed photography edition
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- Peckham 24 celebrates its 10th anniversary with "The Eras Edition," running 15-17 May at Copeland Park and the Bussey Building in London, exploring photography through the lens of time
- The festival was founded 10 years ago by Jo Dennis and Vivienne Gamble as a 24-hour pop-up on the fringe of Photo London, bringing together emerging artists in the south London art scene
- Vinca Petersen's "Hulala" traces four years of change in a rural community on the Scottish island of Skye, exploring the tension between independence and collective living, 30 years after her cult work "No System"
- Max Ferguson's "The Tower Block" documents the end of an era at the London College of Communication's Elephant and Castle building, set to move to a new site in 2027
- Kristina Yenza's "Younist" documents youth growing up in Ukraine during wartime, focusing on how war settles into the background of everyday gestures, relationships, and identity
- Maen Hammad's "Landing" is a collaborative project into Palestinian skateboarding, framing it as a manifesto on liberation against architectures of control and a confrontation with dominant narratives about Palestine
- Julie F Hill's "Chasms" digitally processes raw data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes using scientific software to explore deep space, deep time, and the limits of photographic space
- Mark Duffy's "On Pugin" closely surveys the dirt of carpets in the Houses of Parliament, named after interiors designer Augustus Pugin
Why it matters: The 10th edition's "time" theme draws together radically different subjects — Ukrainian wartime youth, Palestinian skateboarding, parliamentary carpet grime, and Hubble telescope data — showing how a fringe south London pop-up founded a decade ago has grown into a launchpad for emerging contemporary photography with an increasingly global scope.
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