PhotoMonth! Duane Michals and Arthur Tress

PhotoMonth: Photography Festival

From 2 October to 3 November 2025, PhotoMonth will continue to create a democratic platform where photographers of any age, gender, or practice can exhibit their work. It remains committed to showcasing photography in all its forms, making space for underrepresented voices, experimental processes, and urgent ideas.

PhotoMonth – Relaunching October 2025

This evening marks the return of PhotoMonth, relaunching with a renewed energy and expanded vision. This year, we’ll be exhibiting photography across all London areas with an “E” postcode—from EC1 to SE15, from Hackney to Deptford.

PhotoMonth 2025 will showcase the full breadth of photographic practice—from personal to political, street to landscape, portraiture to conceptual and this relaunch is also a tribute to Maggie Pinhorn, Director of Alternative Arts, who founded the original PhotoMonth festival, which ran successfully from 2001 to 2018 across East London.

Join us for the second event of this series at The Source where together we will celebrate Duane Michals short films and a feature film, Arthur Tress 'Waters Edge'.

Arthur Tress: Water’s Edge is an immersive portrait of acclaimed photographer Arthur Tress, whose surreal, dreamlike images have challenged and enchanted audiences for decades. Filmed over four years along the coastlines, towns, and hidden spaces of California, the documentary invites viewers into Tress’s world — a place where art, adventure, humor, and mortality collide. Remarkably, Tress continues to photograph every day in much the same way he did in the 1960s — on film, using his trusted Hasselblad camera. Blurring the line between documentary and visual poem, the film explores not only Tress’s playful, often subversive creative process, but also his reflections on identity, isolation, aging, and the legacy we leave behind. Through spontaneous photo adventures, quiet trespasses, and the surreal beauty of his imagery, Water's Edge offers a lyrical meditation on art, identity, and the fleeting nature of time.

Info: You are invited to view an exhibition of the works of the renowned Barry Lewis and his current project, “Intersections”: a study of London through portraits and words of the people.

Info: Take your seats as we prepare to be inspired by Duane Michals and 'Waters Edge' by Arthur Tress

Info: An opportunity to share space with liked minded people and visit the exhibition again!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Source, Source Studios (formerly Stratford Circus), Theatre Square, Barking, United Kingdom