The Polish publishing scene had a strong presence at Photo London, with Rust Publishing among the independent presses featured at the "Sun Archive and Friends" booth. The stand brought together publishers and artists for whom the photobook serves as a primary medium, including Sun Archive, Outer Space Press, Bored Wolves, Pix.House, Blow Up Press, Wydawnictwo MCK, Jednostka, Syreny i Glonojady, Ela Polkowska, Joanna Szpak Ostachowska, and Agata Kadenacy — communities combining photography with design, archives, and editorial experimentation. Their publications, often produced in short runs balancing the art book and the object, circulate in parallel across galleries, festivals, and private collections.
Rust Publishing presented a selection of experimental publications at the booth, shown alongside Michał Łuczak's Extraction — a visual narrative on Upper Silesia, where landscape, architecture, and daily life bear the marks of decades of coal mining — and projects by Outer Space Press, which draw on found images, archives, and printing errors as a deliberate artistic strategy.
The participation of Polish artists and publishers at Photo London 2026 was supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Institute in London, and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland..
Photo London 2026
Sun Archive and Friends
Olympia, London. 13th - 17th May 2026
Booth: P14
book signing at Sun Archive and Friends
14 May | Thursday:
2:00 pm / Łukasz Rusznica „All Empires Will Fall”
3:00 pm / Monika Orpik „Stepping Out Into This Almost Empty Road”
15 May | Friday:
4:00 pm / Ela Polkowska „Splinter”
5:00 pm / Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo books from Outer Space Press
6:00 pm / Jakub Szachnowski „The Hawk”
16 May | Saturday:
2:00 pm / Weronika Gęsicka “Encyclopaedia”
3:00 pm / Michalina Kacperak “Soft Spot”
4:00 pm / Michał Łuczak „Extraction”
5:00 pm / Studio Prokopiou „Wet Paint”
17 May / Sunday:
3:00 pm / Daria Izworska „God’s Children”
fot. Instytut Adama Mickiewicza
