Come and visit us at The Paxton Centre Friday throughout July to celebrate our Photography Group Exhibition, celebrating a diverse range of London-based artists. Showcasing perspectives across street, people, places, landscapes and local culture, the exhibition highlights the richness and creativity of contemporary photography in the UK.
Exhibiting Artists
Lou Corio Randall @coriographs
An amateur photographer from the Crystal Palace area with an attraction to finding bold geometry and pattern in unexpected and sometimes seemingly mundane places.
Madeleine Hackney @colourhugger
Madeleine Hackney is a South East London-based graphic designer and creative lead, emerging photographer originally from Margate. Her work focuses on emotion, memory and everyday moments, often exploring the tension between connection and disconnection in modern life.
Drawing from her experience as a mother, her recent series Missed Moments reflects on childhood in the digital age through quiet, intimate observations of presence, comfort and distraction. This is her first personal photographic series.
Giovanni 'Messi’ Messina @unfoldingoftime
Photographer, filmmaker and multidisciplinary movement artist specialising in story telling & emotions' expressivity. These artworks are samples from his extensive imagery archive called 'Unfolding Of Time', an inquisitive safe space where analogue film and digital realms join forces to create timeless magic.
Giovanni's approach to creating is spontaneous yet keen-eyed and immersive. Camera-in-hands, he explores the whole range, from soulful portraiture (& self-portraiture) to street photography and everything in between. Capturing mundane fleeting moments and details that often goes unnoticed.. specially in a fast-paced city like London, where everything is on-the-go and everyone is rushing somewhere! ..however, juxtaposedly enough, G'M'M finds photography to be a soothing practice that allows him to slow down and be present 'in the here & now' while also continue nurturing his love for people, art and knowledge.
Heather Martin @hmartinphotos
I am a London-based photographer. My photography represents time, space and a sense of place. I try to capture a mood, feeling, a story and a sense of time and place.
Much of my work is both film and digitally based, including exploring these themes using a smartphone. I have found this has given an added sense of fleeting moments. I am a member of London Independent Photography and SE20 Art Group.
Daniel Lane @daniellanephoto
I’m a documentary photographer interested in people, behaviour, and the often curious details of everyday life. Over the past twenty years I’ve photographed documentary projects in the UK and overseas, creating long-form stories and portraits shaped by observation, research, and human connection. In 2020, I began documenting life in London during the pandemic, focusing on the subtle shifts in behaviour and public space. The resulting body of work became a book Where Distance Kept is Love’s Measure.
I hold a First Class MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography from the University of Westminster, and have also taught at The London School of Photography. My work has taken me across Japan, Brazil, Nigeria, Cuba, and Madagascar. My interest in photography began in my grandfather’s darkroom as a child, where storytelling and image-making first became intertwined for me. I live locally in Anerley and also work with organisations including The Crystal Palace Park Trust, along with other community groups.
Yulia Yoldina @yuliayoldina
Yulia is a photographer and clothing designer and maker. She works exclusively with analogue photography techniques (such as black-and-white film processing and cyanotype) and enjoys simplicity, deep focus, and a genuine human touch throughout the process. Her printing practice is currently focussed on making and experimenting with plant-based photographic development solutions. Yulia first fell in love with film photography as a child, drawn to the magic of the darkroom, working with her mum and watching silver grains appear on photographic paper. She took various courses at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, to develop her passion for photography and design. In 2025, Yulia set up a professionally equipped darkroom studio, where she invites visitors to take part in analogue photography workshops.
Jen Degnan @jen.degnan.photography
Jen is a Scottish photographer living in South East London specialising in the travel, portraiture and documentary spaces. Working as a freelance commercial photographer in the travel industry, her work primarily focuses on the people and places she encounters around the world as well as the natural beauty she finds closer to home in the Scottish Highlands.
J.G @realmofparadox
A photographer at heart, I chase the unknown—whether it’s the rugged peaks of mountains, the hidden corners of the city streets, or the quiet embrace of untouched nature. My lens is more than a tool; it’s a bridge to stillness, a way to pause, reflect, and find peace amidst the chaos. Each image I create is a form of catharsis, a visual diary of exploration, wonder, and the delicate beauty I encounter along the way. I live to wander, to witness, and to translate fleeting moments into something timeless
Donnie Schutz @donniespictures @madebydustbunnies
With work that spans from costume to performance art, photography to bleach painting, Donnie Schutz is an artist who likes to try everything. Whether its creating otherworldly creatures or documenting their friends and travels on the cheapest film camera possible, curiosity and experimentation remain at the core of their practice. When taking photos, Donnie looks for beauty in the mundane, reverence in the macabre and playfulness amidst solemnity.
John Barrett @mainly_mono
John Barrett is a fine art photographer with a rare eye for creating powerful, atmospheric images. John uses original techniques dating back to when photography was invented.
With years of experience and a deep mastery of historic photographic processes, he produces portraits and fine art landscape prints that feel timeless,
intimate, and quietly dramatic.
Image credit - @jen.degnan.photography @daniellanephoto @unfoldingoftime
