This discussion celebrates new research about why and how photobooks matter for those who make and read them, by enacting new social, material and creative potentials. Author Dr Briony Carlin will be in conversation with Celine Marchbank and Dafna Talmor, artists who feature in her book Encounters with Photobooks to explore how their publications intersect with other dimensions of their photographic practice. The conversation will be chaired by Duncan Wooldridge.

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Dr Briony Carlin is a researcher and curator who explores intersections of image, experience, technology and feminist theory through photobooks and other cultural objects. She is Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University, where she teaches theoretical and practical study of art and curating.

Celine Marchbank is a British photographic artist whose practice explores the beauty and complexity of everyday life. Her work is grounded in autobiographical narratives, with a particular focus on themes of death, loss and grief. Through quiet, intimate observations of domestic spaces and details, she creates images that are warm, familiar and emotionally resonant, offering accessible reflections on complex human experiences.

Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose practice encompasses photography, sculpture, spatial interventions and collaborations.

Duncan Wooldridge is an artist, writer, and curator who explores and seeks to expand the possibilities of photography as a technical image, focusing on materiality, experimental methods, and photography’s future tense. He is the co-founder of the Global Photographies Network, a platform connecting academic and professional institutions, and object | multiple. Wooldridge also teaches photography at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (2021, SPBH/MACK), and co-editor, with Lucy Soutter, of The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies (2025, Routledge).