WORKSHOPS
Since 2009 we have produced photography and zine workshops for a variety of clients throughout the UK and abroad.
Join The Photocopy Club and Pompey Darkroom for a day-long photographic investigation of the Southsea shoreline.
Led by Matt Martin, a photographer, curator and bookmaker and founder of The Photocopy Club , we’ll begin with a guided photowalk, exploring the coast through digital photography before returning to the IN TRANSIT ZINE VAN for an experimental analogue printing workshop.
The day will finish with a collaborative group zine, bringing together images and experiments made throughout the session. Everyone will take home a copy.
No previous experience is needed, just bring your curiosity and a camera.
This workshop is for partcipants aged 18+. BOOK HERE
What to expect
A guided photographic walk along the Southsea shore
Exploring the journey from digital photography to analogue print
Hands-on experimental printing in the IN TRANSIT ZINE VAN
A collaborative group zine to take home
A relaxed, creative day for photographers of all levels
What you’ll need
A digital camera or camera phone.
Please wear comfortable clothing and footwear suitable for walking outdoors.
Meeting Point
We will meet outside The D-Day Story, Clarence Esplanade, Portsmouth PO5 3NT
Please note, places are limited to 8 participants and early booking is advised.
About the workshop host
Matt Martin is a photographer, Curator and book maker, with 20 years experience in running gallery projects and workshops, now based in Penzance, Cornwall, Matt started the photographergallery and print studio TONER in 2025 and before this was the gallery curator at Photo Book cafe and Doomed Gallery London. He started The Photocopy Club in 2011, a open submission exhibition project and has exhibited globally.
In 2024, Matt started the IN TRANSIT project - A traveling zine library and workshop space designed to get photography out of major cities and work with people from rural and small town communities.
The Photocopy Club IN TRANSIT, in collaboration with POST presents a ZINE SANDWICH! Inspired by the Photoworks festival 2026 theme: Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams
The Photocopy club invite you to come on a half day zine workshop that includes a curated photowalk exploring the festivals themes. From our base outside the creative photographic hub POST in Hove, we will take you on an hours photowalk around the Hove area, where you will need to photograph subjects from a list of themes, ideas and creative prompts. Once the walk is finished we will go back to the IN TRANSIT zine van and each create a zine of the images we have made.
From there we will print out your zine and then as a group each re-share, re-copy, fold and staple to create a group zine sandwich, building on the collaborative practice and creating 16 unique publications that will then be exhibited inside POST on the Sunday evening.
Everyone will get a copy of their zine to take away at the end of the session.
This workshop is perfect for all ages and abilities and is designed to inspire the ideas of group creative play within artists books and zines.
First group - 10am-1pm / Second group 2-5pm
Exhibition - 6pm till 8pm
Group sizes - 8 people per session
What you will need: A touch screen device such as a phone or tablet & weather appropriate clothing.
Working with different collectives and communities to help more people get into printed matter .
The Photocopy Club has been producing affordable and easy to access workshops throughout the UK and abroad for the last 15 years. Working in schools, universities, community and activist groups and photography festivals.
For 2026/27 we will producing workshops around the
UK and abroad.