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Friends, I urgently need your help tonight. 💔 Our sewage pipe has broken and wastewater is leaking. We need $250 for emergency repairs before the damage gets worse. I know I've asked for help many times, but this is something we truly cannot delay. If anyone can contribute $5, $10, or even share my story, it would mean so much to my family. Thank you for standing with us. ❤️🙏
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So cool to have this collaborative work on until October 17th at @backlitgallery as part of @photoworks_uk 's Tessa Boffin: "Where we touch the archive." This work was made as part of Photowork's recent Queer Grounds programme led by @evalouisaj and @kairo.kay ! So glad to have been a part of this programme & the final results are incredible thanks to @inourhands_org 's care and craft. Go check out the show if you can until October 17th!
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Some install shots from Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive currently showing until 17th Oct at @backlitgallery wanted to also share a bit about the symposium we shall be doing as part of Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive, Draft 3 at @phoenix_artspace @photoworks_uk Festival 2026. Where We Touch the Archive - Symposium Friday 9th October 2026, 11am - 5pm Free, book your ticket online @devonshirecollective website/ in my bio. Programme: Welcome: Polly Wright and Jazz Swali ‍ Living with Archives‍ Flora Dunster A reflection on ten years of working in the Tessa Boffin archive, and the affective arc of durational research. ‍ Angel without a Face Åsa Johannesson This paper considers Tessa Boffin’s photographic practice through lesbian allegory and the studio portrait. ‍ TBD: the archive and uncertainty ‍ Dana Brass ‍ - ‍ Catch me should I fall: Held in a portrait Leah Mclaine and Danit Ariel A discussion between curator Danit Ariel and photographer Leah Mclaine on themes of care, bravery, desire and play in the practice of making portraits and across Tessa Boffin’s archive. ‍ Not an object to my subject Sophie Mak-Schram & Erin Holly A performative reading, exploring relational desire, care and consent through the text element of Sophie’s newly commissioned “asking for everything” (2026), which responds to Tessa Boffin’s archive and work. ‍ - ‍ Where We Meet: Between Photography and Land Queer Grounds, Georjie from In Our Hands, Eva Jonas, Kairo Urovi, SHARP and Ricardo Reverón Blanco A roundtable exploring how queer, collective practices can create spaces of encounter between land, photography, making and memory. ‍ Shreds without Showing Sophie Seita A lecture performance, or body talk in empty slides, will performatively engage with Tessa Boffin’s archive, and specifically her distinctly literary imagination and methods. Closing remarks ‍ Stav B Curated by @danitariel @curatorjazz @inner_effigies @pollewright I shall be heading down for the day this Friday so feel free to do a London to Brighton trip with me that day, just txt me. Also a great opportunity to try get to see more of the Photoworks 2026 Photo Festival.
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An extract from a text I wrote for THE DRAFT, a growing publication accompanying Drafts 1-4 of Where We Touch The Archive - a touring exhibition in response to the practice of artist, activist, academic, Tessa Boffin (1960-1993), co-curated by Polly, Jazz, Ricardo, and me. We came up with THE DRAFT because it was clear from our first meeting that we were not attempting to be an authority on who Tessa Boffin was, and that of course we were not “discovering” her. Instead we spent days and months like giddy children, in awe of her handwritten lectures, technical notes, clippings from books, and meticulous contact sheets, finding endless entry points and stories, each sharing what has affected us. Each sharing how much has changed, and how much has not changed, and what it feels like to be queer in the artworld today. So instinctively, in addition to the three main exhibitions focusing on Boffin’s archive and Sophie Mak-Schram & Leah McLaine’s beautiful commissions in response to it, we chose to dedicate an exhibition to the behind the scenes of the project - drafts, conversations, process, questions, doubts, one of Tessa’s exes tearing up in front of The King’s Trial, a quote she kept from Alice in Wonderland, a road trip in the heatwave to guardians Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh’s studio, and everything that is more than the final image, or the final box, and the whole life that precedes and follows it. Join us tomorrow for a very special day in BTS Draft no.3, at Phoenix Project Space, with speakers and performances, all untangling what is closer than representation. Full programme and free tickets to reserve in the link in my bio :) The King’s Trial, Tessa Boffin, 1993 Archive boxes at Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh’s studio More boxes spotted marching together at Brighton Trans Pride Queer Grounds led by Eva Louisa Jonas and Kairo Urovi, leaking out of boxes Testing projection for Sophie’s installation at Volt curated by Polly Leah at Backlit curated by Jazz A pitstop at the Bottom’s Rest A couple lay down together to watch Sophie’s piece in a photo Polly sent me to make my week! The drafts in Tate Etc. An assistant curator if I ever knew one Somewh
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October has begun, and here in Gaza, we enter this month with fear and uncertainty. After everything my family has already survived, I don’t know what the coming days will bring. My priority is simple: keep my family safe, put food on our table, and make sure we can get through another month. If you have been watching my story and wondering how you can help, this is the time. ❤️‍🩹 Even $5, $10, or $20 can help us with food and our basic daily needs. And if you cannot donate, please share this post — one share could help my story reach someone who can. Please don’t scroll past us. Please don’t forget my family. Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Both can make a difference. 🙏❤️
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Where We Touch the Archive - Symposium Friday 9th October 2026, 11am - 5pm Free, book your ticket online @devonshirecollective website Programme: Welcome and a note on THE DRAFT - Polly Wright and Jazz Swali ‍ Living with Archives‍ Flora Dunster 
A reflection on ten years of working in the Tessa Boffin archive, and the affective arc of durational research. ‍ Angel without a Face
Åsa Johannesson
This paper considers Tessa Boffin’s photographic practice through lesbian allegory and the studio portrait. ‍ TBD: the archive and uncertainty ‍ Dana Brass ‍ - ‍ Catch me should I fall: Held in a portrait Leah Mclaine and Danit Ariel A discussion between curator Danit Ariel and photographer Leah Mclaine on themes of care, bravery, desire and play in the practice of making portraits and across Tessa Boffin’s archive. ‍ Not an object to my subject Sophie Mak-Schram & Erin Holly 
A performative reading, exploring relational desire, care and consent through the text element of Sophie’s newly commissioned “asking for everything” (2026), which responds to Tessa Boffin’s archive and work. ‍ - ‍ Where We Meet: Between Photography and Land 
Queer Grounds, Georjie from In Our Hands, Eva Jonas, Kairo Urovi, SHARP and Ricardo Reverón Blanco A roundtable exploring how queer, collective practices can create spaces of encounter between land, photography, making and memory. We’ll consider how images can become prompts for collaboration, and how archives can remain living spaces for meeting, learning and making. ‍ Shreds without Showing Sophie Seita A lecture performance, or body talk in empty slides, will poetically and performatively engage with Tessa Boffin’s archive, and specifically her distinctly literary imagination and methods. Closing the Space ‍ Stav B Part of Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive, Draft 3 @phoenix_artspace Part of @photoworks_uk Festival 2026 Curated by @danitariel @curatorjazz @inner_effigies @pollewright @sharp_the_artist @inourhands_org
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Where We Meet explores how spaces of making can function as sites of learning and connection. Developed by artists Eva Jonas and Kairo Urovi with Queer Grounds, a group of young people from Brighton and Eastbourne, the upcoming installation at Jubilee Library is a response to their creative workshop environment and its material practices. Working across staged and improvised image-making, the exhibition explores queer community organising and DIY building culture. Photographs trace moments of engagement with tools, timber, workshop structures, and one another – gathered in part of within a workshop that took place with the queer-led carpentry organisation In Our Hands, based in West Sussex. The art works will sit within a wooden structure devised by the artists and created by In Our Hands and the community team in which the structure has served as a training opportunity for women and gender-diverse people to develop their building skills. After the exhibition the structure will be returned to In Our Hands who will develop it in conversation with a local community group for donation. Eva Jonas and Kairo Urovi are both visual artists and educators who facilitated Queer Grounds from September 2025 - July 2026. Since then they have gone on to develop workshop methodologies that explore performance-based strategies through collaborative photographic actions drawing from queer movements. Queer Grounds is a free programme of LGBTQ+ friendly creative workshops for young people aged 16 – 25 led by photographers Eva Jonas and Kairo Urovi delivered by Photoworks in partnership with the Devonshire Collective and Phoenix Art Space. Queer Grounds is: @iris.flynt @bear_clip @cunexttuesday.collective @artbyleyla._ @jagoimaging @nualaephotography @rey.illustrates_ @zlmnt Where We Meet will be exhibited at Jubilee Library as part of Photoworks Festival.
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GLUE is back 12/13 September @icalondon 💕 With over 90 publishers, a special exhibition @jesse_glazzard The Sound of Dirt and Beauty and displays with @kalpeshlathigra @ovalpress @altman.romy @maitedeorbe Talks with @campbelladdy @gabulaurent @gemfletcher @jesse_glazzard @biogal @a_____rtist @pina_magazine @smut_press @helapressltd @studionocturne_ @tummyacheuk @versobooks Workshops with @ibby_azab_0.2 @kairo.kay @evalouisaj and a performance with @t_a_l_k_e_r_ Exhibition and displays open until 20 September 🔥 With the best glue team @tom_lorcan @eray________________ 💕💕💕
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A little throw back with our siblings from the Lake side.
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We are here 💜 #gaza #fyp #viral #foryou #palestine
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With great pleasure, we introduce our current resident at Iatrus Residency Program – Kairo Urovi @kairo.kay Part of our Balkan Echo residency program, Kairo joins a growing network of artists whose voices, experiences, and practices continue to expand the conversation across the region. The echo is becoming bigger and bigger, carrying stories that move across borders, generations, and places. Kairo Urovi (b. 2000) is a visual artist living and working between Essex (UK) and Shkodër (Albania). Drawing on personal archives and the experience of growing up between Italy, the UK, and Albania, his work explores the afterlives of migration, displacement, and belonging. Moving between documentary observation and constructed image-making, he treats photography less as a record than as a space where memory and fiction converge, reimagining inherited narratives and questioning fixed notions of identity. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Paris Photo, PH Museum Days Festival, and Bazament Art Space. The project Echo from the Balkans is part of IATRUS residency programme and realised with the financial support of Национален фонд Култура National Culture Fund @nationalculturefund , Bulgaria under the Creation 2025 programme.
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