Happenings

  • BOP 26: Kitchen Table Photo Club / Drop-In Photo Play Space

    17th & 18th October 2026
    in the Martin Parr Foundation, 316 Paintworks, Bristol BS4 3AR

    KTPC will be at BOP (Books On Photography) 26! Join us for a family-friendly drop-in series of photography and camera-inspired workshops. Discover the wonderful anatomies of cameras, play with photo prompts, create photo fictions, produce mini photobooks, and make your own fantastical cameras.

    Open to public, free, for adults & children. You will be able to buy Bundles cards and see our new Fanzine 'The KTPC fanzine of things to do'.

    Find out more here.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club will be working with MOULD & Stroud College

    20th & 22nd October 2026
    Stroud

    Returning to collaborate with the good people at SVA & MOULD, KTPC will be running photo workshops exploring earth.
    Not open to public.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club & Negative Thinking - Printing Workshop

    28th October 2026
    Studio F1, Willway Yard, Willway Street, BS3 4AZ

    KTPC joins Negative Thinking and will take children of the club through KTPC dark room processes. We will use negs of club members who will leave with their own photo chemical, analogue print. Meet at NT 10.30, pick up 12.30pm. Guided by Esther & Negative Thinking artist. £25. Spaces limited.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club Halloween Afternoon

    1st November 2026

    Cameras, crumpets, and creatures. Come and make costumes, or bring them from the night before, and lets make pictures. Inspired by early 19th Century postcards. Spaces limited.

Happened

  • KTPC End of Summer Sessions

    September 12th & 13th 2026
    At the Kitchen Table and surrounding area.

    Open to 8-13 year olds, the end of summer sessions explored aging and imagining ourselves older and younger.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club bric-a-brac Sale

    August 15th 2026

    KTPC held a camera bric a brac sale at the end of the road! People came to meet us, find out what we've been up to and helped fund club activities by picking up old cameras, costumes and props!

  • Bundles Card Play Days

    Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2026
    The Safe ‘Ouse in The Dings Park (by the basketball court), Oxford Street, St Philip’s, Bristol, BS2 0QN

    Two creative play days with the new BUNDLES cards. Photography play sessions, gifts, an exhibition, a magical treasure hunt & music by local kids. Get your own pack here!

  • Screening of 'The Up of The Down' @ The New Department of Moving Images

    Thursday 25th June
    Willway Yard

    A collective exhibition showcasing the work of past and present BEEF members across expanded film, video art, analogue processes, and sonic experimentation.

  • Stroud Valley Arts Exhibition & Workshops

    19th - 28th March 2026
    4 John Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire. GL5 2HA.

    Kitchen Table Photo Club set up inside the gallery for a week, with young & old and inbetween turning up to look, play & make. KTPC’s film made with Penguin Random House interviewing the late, great Martin Parr screened for the first time.

  • 'The Up of The Down' @ The Cube

    March 25th 2026

    ‘The Up of The Down’ screened at The Cube’s Bluescreen evening - an event that celebrates and showcases locally produced short-films.

  • Jacks' Lab Riso Posters Exhibition

    December 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club shows the best of its posters, printed by the best of the best, Nathan at Riso Prints, Arch 7 Silverthorne Lane, Bristol, BS2 0QD.

  • The Up of The Down at Swedenborg Film Festival

    8 December 2025

    Screening at Swedenborg Film Festival as part of their extended programme, showing moving works from around the world, for a 12 hour continuous screening from 10:00 - 22:00 at Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club features in The Cable

    November 2025

    Photo-essay feature in The Cable showcasing the 2025 Summer Club, made possible from KTPC’s famous fundraising raffle. We explored our rivers and asked ourselves: Are these streams our waters? What waters did our ancestors come from? 

  • East Bristol Books x Bewilderment Cards

    New stockist! Located on Old Market, East Bristol Books is independent, radical, diverse & community-minded, reflecting the values of East Bristol.

  • Screening The Up of The Down + Workshops

    19 November 2025
    University of West of England

    Esther and collaborator Chiz Williams run workshops on how to run workshops

  • Lonnie Holly Workshops

    November 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club workshop with Lonnie Holly in The Dings / Image and Sound Making.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club

    All Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in November

    Kitchen Table Photo Club in Easton after school.

  • September

    October 2025

    Short BAFTA winning film September chosen by curators at Encounters Festival and screens in Cinema 1, The Watershed.

  • Book Making

    September 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club & The Art Librarian makes books in Easton, Bristol.

  • Utterly lazy and Inattentive

    September 2025

    Short film wrangling Kitchen Table Photo Club members to interview Martin Parr for Penguin Random House, Lockleaze, Bristol.

  • This is Our River

    Summer 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club in the woods and rivers, Rugby Pitches, Oldbury Court, St Anne's Woods and Clay Bottom, Bristol.

  • Burnie's Hill

    On Going 2024/25/26

    A Photo Essay inspired by the traditional poem about how everything becomes something else. Working with Snoozie the musie, South West England.

  • G*RLS Camera Club Print Swap

    September 2025
    KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Bristol.

    With the collective, GCC, Esther designs fantasy cameras and swaps prints. Open to all women and non-binary photographers (or those just interested).

  • Map Collective

    September 2025

    Esther curates a series of collections from her archive, Instagram.

  • Side Gallery x Bewilderment Cards

    August 2025

    The Bewilderment Cards go up to The Side Gallery, Newcastle.

  • The Dings Fun Day

    August 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club returns to the dings with Moon, cameras and magic.

  • Kitchen Table Photo Club

    Spring 2025

    The club continues twice weekly in Bristol.

  • Photographique Exhibition

    Spring 2025

    Kitchen Table Photo Club has work hanging at 53 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EN, England.

  • The Great Fund Raiser

    June 2025

    Raffle & Community Event with contributions form Martin Parr, Sian Davey and Garry Fabiam Miller + more, 37a Gratitude Road, Bristol.

  • The Up of The Down at Screenology

    May 2025

  • Hepworth Wakefield

    May 2025

    The Bewilderment Cards go up to The Wakefield as part of their larger exhibition that includes Helen Chadwick's 'Life Pleasures' and Caroline Walker's  'mothering'. Other rooms held pots by Elizabeth Fritsch, Chiz's favourite, and sculptures by Hepworth. I think Elizabeth Fritsch might have known my dad. Gallery Walk Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 5AW.

  • The Up of The Down at The Dings Safe Ouse

    April 2025

  • Bewilderment Cards Tarot reads

    April 2025

    At Cafe 5 children from Kitchen Table Photo Club read cards of strangers, 37a Gratitude Road, Bristol.

  • Heldi Whits Wring

    Winter 2022/ 2023
    The Cube Cinema, presented film and print exhibition, Heldi Whits Wring. Co-collaged with filmmaker, Joe Field Horner, the results were an anarchic rumpus of bizarre proportions, wild textures and monochrome glory across vast interior cinema walls.

    Opening day: screened Where The Wild Things are & ran art workshops using the Bewilderment Card prototypes.