David Solo

Photopoetry when you can choose anything @davidisolo , who not only co-directs P5 but is a celebrated photopoetry connoisseur, offers an expanded menu of photopoetry pairings in his essay. These examples move beyond an artist creating both the photography and the poetry, or a photographer and poet working together, into the realm of influence and inspiration, with writers and artists choosing published materials to walk hand in hand with their own work. Part of In at least one dream!, Photography+ #30

✨ New Display ✨ ‘Photopoetry’ is now open in the Browsing Library section of the V&A Photography Centre, Room 98, The Kusuma Gallery. The display considers how photography and poetry can create new meanings when paired in the pages of books. ‘In This Dark Wood’ by Elisabeth Tonnard (J&L Books, 2013) is a photobook that pairs 90 different English translations of the first three lines of Dante’s Inferno with photographs of solitary individuals on nighttime streets in the mid-20th century. Tonnard selected the images from the Joseph Selle collection, an archive of over a million negatives by a San Francisco street photography company. The isolated figures, illuminated by flash in darkened streets, take on new meaning when juxtaposed with the lines of poetry: ‘Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita.’, or (according to one translation): ‘In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost.’ Like the varied translations of the famous poem, each person in an urban setting is at once part of the mass and entirely singular. Photopoetry is selected by collector and photopoetry advocate David Solo, the books are available for visitors to handle, read and enjoy. @davidisolo

Raphael - Sublime Poetry Yes it is

Unrolling Eternity - the Brooklyn Books of the Dead Quite amazing exhibition of two books of the dead - from 1500 and 250 BC along with other related objects

Two fine artist's book exhibitions in Boston - Who Is America at 250 (1-9) at the @bostonathenaeum and originated by @sanfranciscocenterforthebook 40 Years of Bookbinding (10-15) at @nbssboston

Photopoetry reading room is on for the next 6 months in the Photography Centre at the V&A Link in bio and /exhibitions/photopoetry

Yin Xiuzhen - Heart to Heart (1-7) and Chiharu Shiota - Threads of Life (8-13) at the Hayward Gallery

Collaborating in Conflict - The Yeats Family and the Public Arts Very well done exhibition at the McMullen Museum looking at 3 generations of the Yeats family.

Another great year of @multipleformats with a side visit to the @grolierpoetry

Available now! The first two pamphlets of our photography and poetry project have been published and are available to buy on our online store. P5 is a photography and poetry pamphlet series directed by Photoworks in partnership with @davidisolo , and designed by @_janeandjeremy . This pamphlets series was created to encourage and support artists exploring how text, image and page can combine in meaningful, experimental, and unexpected ways. Take a look at Persona Digitalia by @vikshirls1 and Endscape by @f11andrewzawacki on our website, and keep an eye out for the other pamphlets coming in late Spring 2026!

Very saddened by the news of Martin's passing and remembering his humor and generosity. Condolences to his family and friends.

Continuing to catch up from Paris/London. Impressions Nabies - Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Vallotton at the BNF Richelieu showing their graphic work - prints, posters and livres d'artistes