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LETS DO THIS!!!!

10 YEARS OF THE PHOTOCOPY CLUB SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!!!!

How to submit your work?

SEND YOUR SUBMISSION TO: 

ATTN: MATT - 

THE PHOTOBOOKCAFE, 4 LEONARD CIRCUS, LONDON EC2A 4DQ

Submit 1-5 images .

Photocopies must be sent by post.

No email submissions.

BxW images only

Printed on a photocopier or large format cheap printer only.

Work can be printed any size up to A0.

Prints must be signed and dated on the back by the artist with name clearly written.

All submissions will be photographed and uploaded online. The list of photographers selected for the exhibition will go up one week before the opening.

By submitting to the project you give the right for your print to be sold for £5. All profits go towards funding the photocopy club and its projects. All rights stay with the artist at all times.

All submissions will be photographed and put on the website but this does not guarantee that the work will be in the show. The show is curated from the submissions sent.

Look at the archive for previous exhibitions.

Please e-mail: [email protected] for more info.

A LIST OF EVERYONE IN THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ONLINE TO VIEW A FEW DAYS AFTER DEADLINE

EXHIBITION DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Louie Lopez

Hi tumblr - please look at this website of excellent items that I helped design. Good people doing good DIY things. Show some love!

Age. Aging. The old. Those among us who can feel ourselves crumbling. The bones and aches, the breakdown of tired bodies over years of abuse. The stairs, of course, all of the impacts, but also the rides home in cramped back seats, knees screaming. Hippers. Stitches in our chins and our lower backs scarred entirely. One Advil bottle after the next; liqui-gels for fast delivery. The stretching – the sheer annoyance of the daily routine. Reach for your toes. Lie back and lift one knee to your chest, then rotate and push the knee to the floor. Hear the pops of god only knows what happening someplace inside.

Perpetual youthfulness isn’t a dream unique to skateboarders, but it’s little wonder why we especially fear growing old. Except there’s a kind of secret that Reynolds and some others among us have learned. Although becoming an adult is hard and bloody and tastes like someone else’s spit in your mouth, actually being an adult is completely rad. The world begins to make a new kind of sense. Dreams are not destroyed so much as retrofitted by new perspectives. Reality itself is changed by eyes that grow more open.

In fact, once you are standing outside of it, childhood looks a lot like a prison, though one filled with enough free time and super fun toys to convince us that it’s the best place there is. The childish dream will cling to you with strong and sticky fingers. It is in nobody’s interest but your own, and perhaps your loved ones’, for you to leave childhood behind. “Stay childish!” the skateboard industry screams.

The Photocopy club are back! Our next exhibition is at FOTOFESTIWAL, LODZ, POLAND from the 9th to the 19th of June. The theme for this exhibition is HIT THE ROAD. The deadline is the 6th of June for your submissions. Please read the submission guidelines on our website for full details of how to submit.

Thanks for your support and can’t wait to see your work! 

These are my favorite photos from 2015, whata year!