The Photocopy Club:
Photo Zine Awards 2025
The 1st yearly Photographic zine awards is now open for your submissions.
We are looking for photography zines made between 2024 and 2025 to be exhibited at this year’s Peckham 24 photography Festival in London. Your zine can be on any subject.
The zines will be exhibited in our IN TRANSIT project, displayed as part of the A BIGGER BOOK FAIR in London this May.
One Winner will be selected by our panel of photography publishers and announced at the end of the exhibition. The winner will get a zine published by the Photocopy club in an edition of 100 copies and will work alongside Curator Matt Martin to support with design and concept. The Winner will receive all of the 100 zines to sell with support from TPC if needed.
An exhibition of all the zines submitted will also be displayed at our Gallery TONER in Penzance, Cornwall for one week in June.
The fee to submit your zine is £5 which needs to be pre paid before sending your submission - CLICK HERE TO PAY
This Fee supports the photocopy club with admin, exhibition support and archiving. We try to keep our submission fees as low as possible to support the community and keep projects going.
To be part of the zine awards follow the guidelines below.
DEADLINE 9TH OF MAY 2025
EXHIBITION: 16-18.5.25 - PECKHAM 24, LONDON
1. Zines must have been made between January 2024 and May 2025
2. Your zine must be no bigger than A5 (148x210mm) in size
3. Zines can be colour or black and white
4. Your zine needs to be folded and bound*
*NO PERFECT BOUND PUBLICATIONS. Zines can be stapled, bound with tread, loose bind or elastic bands
5. No limit on page count
6. Your zine must be submitted by post. Submissions are accepted internationally.
ADDRESS: TONER, 61-62 CHAPEL STREET, PENZANCE, TR18 4AE, CORNWALL, UK.
7. A list of all exhibitors will be shared a few days before Peckham 24
8. One winner will be announced at the end of the exhibition. Judges to be announced.
9. A submission fee of £5 will go towards admin cost, documenting and exhibiting the zines and archiving. The Photocopy club is a team of one, so this really does help keep these projects going as The Photocopy club is self funded.
10. All submitted zines will be displayed in the exhibition and by submitting you give permission for your zine to be photographed and shared online as well as allowing your zine to be added to the Photocopy Club zine archive which is now at around 1000 photographic zines and we are working on a digital archive of this.
Zines will not be returned to the sender and will be added to the archive.
11. You can only submit one zine per person for the award.
ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL: info@thephotocopyclub.com
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