MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies

The last off site install of the year, at Candid Arts Trust. Congratulations on a fantastic show!

Another great Y2 off site install, at Koppel Collective Regents Park. Congratulations to the exhibiting students!

Congratulations to our first group of Y2 students on an amazing off site install, this one at The Waiting Room in Peckham!

Private view: Tuesday 12th May 6-9pm Exhibition open 12th -13th (10am - 6pm) @luminoirart 157 Regents Park Rd, London NW18BB THRESHOLD is a group exhibition bringing together 12 artists working across photography, sculpture, and mixed media. This show explores the space between body and ether, where the physical and the intangible begin to blur. Each work emerges from photographic practice, not as a fixed image, but as a starting point: a threshold into something else. Photography is no longer simply a tool for capturing reality, but a way of seeing beyond it. Here, it becomes a point of transition - extending into material, into space, into states of becoming. We are on the threshold of a new era. One where the camera is not an endpoint, but an entryway. Through these works, we invite you into a series of doorways - into inner worlds, subconscious spaces, and shifting identities. Each encounter offers a choice: to step inside, or to remain at the edge. Exhibiting artists: @norriiisss @laurenthompsonstudio @noxnoctus @qinnluo @liuhaizhua @shanerr_wang_ @lrl_0211 @logan__lsh @s__uzzyy @victoriagazzolla @jinnxuanruu @yobo0223

It’s getting harder to find a whole kilo of the self in supermarkets these days. But no need to panic. As part of the MA Contemporary Photography class of 2026, we are curating a pop-up show of sculptures, installations, photographic works and performances, offering at least half kilo of the self. Join us on the evening of May 13th at @candidartstrust to have a drink, and share some chats around the self without naming it. It’s a reversible show, if you’re not satisfied with the self, you can turn it into non-self. Poster design by @tugc333 Participant artists: @shezifish @rmcy @proseccopussii @bunnyart.uk @tugc333 @xiong__n @_nehzhen @sachikolita @ichiko.art @xxsyy600 @whyraspberries_ @oldnightkidwang @yuqin_li_ Performance artist： @arashrafiei Thanks @csm_macp @fine_art_csm @csm_news @unioftheartslondon #csm #ual #exhibition

A Tear Cannot Fall Steel, Aluminium, Wood 34cm x 37cm x 12cm 2026 What cannot be resolved is allowed to stay suspended. Many thanks to all the technicians for their generous support.💖 #csm

❊ This week in CSM Publications ❊ From laser cut pages to link stitch binding! / Week 12/2026 1. Cao Qingyun @bai.jiu.904 2. Miko Jian @kayi_kan , Valerie Kvon @valerie.kvon , Dasha Tcvetkova @datsv and Tianyu Liu @vivi_liu999 3. Jeongha Park @bakjeongha 4. Hannah Weeden @hannah.weedy @csm_news @unioftheartslondon @csmgraphics @csm_macp @cppp2027 #csmpublications #csm #centralsaintmartins #publications #bookbinding

Exhibition ‘Copy, Transfer, Transform’ will show at the Old Waiting Room. Any repetition is a production of difference. Copying is not the continuation of sameness, but the making of minute ruptures in each act of transfer. Those moments of “distortion” are precisely the fissures through which meaning emerges. And those “transformations” are the traces left behind after objects and artists have permeated one another. This group exhibition brings together ten artists, each attending to a different object. It may be a form, a memory, a body, a relationship, an image, a history, a thing, and so on. Intervening through their own perception, they enact upon these objects some form of copying. When copying is no longer in the service of restoration, but functions solely as a means of revealing the gaps of translation, probing what we have overlooked, forgotten, or disregarded. Transfer incurs loss. Every act of carrying implies a kind of diminishment of material, of time, of affect. Yet it is precisely these losses that loosen the original from its closed self, opening it outward. The artist here acts not as a reproducer, but as a membrane. Their understanding, their biases, their memories and their body constitute the very conditions under which translation takes place. Transformation is not failed copying. It is the only way copying can be honest.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Open Reception: 11th May 2026, 2-8pm Location: The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station Way, London SE15 4RX @oldwaitingroom.peckhamrye @maverickprojects Participating Artist: @promise_films @daoguang_wen @jbemclean @mangalaaart @ajiii_52 @jaimitopradas @chuyann_zhang @reeginauok @llloyalyal_ @zniin_aa Poster by @daoguang_wen & @promise_films Supported by @csm_macp @fine_art_csm #artexhibición #contemporaryart #csm #fineart

Vulnerability Theory & Practice 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 @bakjeongha 1𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙈𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙨 “Theory does not remain as a concept, but extends into practice and is reconfigured through the work. Theory and practice are not separate, but operate together in a process that shapes them both. Based on this thinking, this zine is an archive and record of the process of developing the sculptural work ‘because we are fragile’ bringing together the theories and books that have influenced me, along with sketches, prototypes, and photographic works made before expanding into sculpture.” - Jeongha Park 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 A5, laser printed, saddle staple bound Designed and made by @bakjeongha Printed and bound in @csm_publications @csm_macp @cppp2027 @csm_news @unioftheartslondon #csm #centralsaintmartins #ual #csm_macp #publication

The Fool’s Journey Negative / 愚人之旅 反色 2026 Tongjun Xu with. Ziyan Liu and Shirong Hu #photography #tarot #contemporaryart #film #ual

Hanna!Hanna! this post could be a love letter to your hair color Here is the combination of the first two sculptures Constructed to Attach on 120mm b&w film with the best @whyraspberries_

Some of our Y1 students have been collaborating with @luciaiking this term to develop work that speaks to themes of migration and mobility. Their work is up in the street until tomorrow - be sure to go check it out!