PhotoHastings Ezine
The Online Digital Magazine & Newsletter
Each issue, a PhotoHastings members’ practice chosen at random, will be profiled about their work, to include images and an artist statement. We are also writing and seeking original photo-book and exhibition reviews, both regional and in London, being our nearest major city. We will also be running feature articles which we feel are interesting to our readers and subscribers, and we will be collating and sharing a listing round up of exhibitions both regional and London based in our mail-outs.
If you have any events or news to share that is relevant to the PhotoHastings community or have ideas about what you might like to see in the ezine please get in touch with us via info@photohastings.org.

Giles Stokoe : Member in Profile
The roots of this project came from a desire to understand why, while roaming countryside in the UK and abroad, I feel inexplicably drawn to some landscapes and not to others.
Most Recent Articles
Norman Road a Happening Place for Photography
This month sees exhibitions across four galleries in Norman Road St Leonards, each with its individual character and each showing photography. Agata Read - Frames On The Distaff Side Agata Read explores the process of intervening in the material structure of a...
Portraits by Nour El-Din, Refugee Week 2023
In 2022, The Refugee Buddy Project opened the doors of The Dove Café at 19 Bexhill Road. Ever since, it has been serving delicious coffee and an everchanging menu of wholesome foods. The café is a cosy, sunlit, people-oriented space – one that thrives on a culture of...
Hastings Youth Press
This was a pilot project for the Magnum Photos Foundation that it hopes will be the first in a series of local visual journalism projects around the United Kingdom in regional cities and towns, with a focus on under-served and under-resourced communities, and...
Sophie De-Roe : Member in Profile
Relax... breathe in... breathe out... and... dive. Ever since I learned to swim, I’ve been fascinated by the underwater world beneath the surface. It’s like diving into a dream, or a fantasy world where I can fly, float or become a mermaid. I have spent years...
Patrick Adam Jones – And then it all made sense….eh!
During a last-minute dash into Solaris in St Leonards, I discovered a haven in work spanning multiple disciplines, and exemplifying an experimental approach to thinking as making. There is much to take in and ponder on. Patrick Adam Jones has carefully selected works,...
Photo London 2023
The scale of this year’s presentation was daunting. With over one hundred international galleries representing multitudes of photographers, plus publishers and book stalls, my two days visit wasn’t really sufficient to comprehensively take it all in. I was pleased to...
PhotoHastings Instagram Gallery #7 Gary Willis
PhotoHastings Gallery & Project SpaceInstagram - From 15 May 2023 Image: Food For Thought © Gary Willis Instagram: @photohastings_gallery | @garywillis.snapsFood for Thought A photographic installation by Gary Willis “I wanted to create an installation to provoke...
Photopia: Life Observed
The fifteen photographers and artists, most of whom being PhotoHastings members, showcased their individual takes on the subject via a diverse range of photographic styles and themes. A rich and eclectic range of work was brought to life through different creative...
We Out Here – Hastings Contemporary
We Out Here is not an ordinary show, not to my eyes. It feels like something is happening here. It’s a humble premise in some ways, a show of six artists living and working in Hastings, but this is far more. It’s a band of ambitious makers with global subjects that...
Book Review: The Pillar by Stephen Gill
Rural Sweden, a lonely monolith of aged wood stands in a field. What a banal image. Except, it’s not really that lonely, not if you were capable of observing it like some kind of omni-present guardian. Stephen Gill, a name known to many from such works as Hackney...
Justine Devenney : Member in Profile
When I first started making photographs I was obsessed with the shadow, in all its forms; my own, the fleeting beauty of botanical shadows and the unexpected, poetic shadows cast by domestic objects. I never tire of how the shadow can represent motion whilst revealing...
Towner 100: Celebrating its Centenary
Towner Eastbourne has been collecting and exhibiting contemporary art for almost 100 years and has announced a bumper programme celebrating its centenary year; TOWNER 100. A series of major exhibitions will take audiences on a journey through the Towner Collection...