Hapax Magazine (2025)

12/06/2025

Issue 7 on press and available soon from the usual outlets.

11/06/2025

Join us on Sunday 22nd June, 1-3 pm at HAPAX Living Room for our second peer-to-peer photography discussion group. Please book your place on Eventbrite (link in bio) for an afternoon discussing your recent images and ideas with other photographers.

This month we welcome special guest Jermaine Francis, to join us in the discussions, as we celebrate his exhibition ‘Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix’ extended to 22 June in the Living Room.

Welcome to HAPAX

HAPAX is founded and run by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. Our magazine commissions new photographic ideas, which we publish twice per year in print and don’t share online.
We believe in incubating new projects, which are in some way a departure from an artist’s previous practice, to help artists and curators test out their new ideas in a publication full of ideas and images which haven’t been published before. Every magazine sold helps fund the next commission opportunities.
We also now have a studio/exhibition space - HAPAX Living Room - in Earls Court, and you are welcome to visit us for an exhibition or to take part in events.

This month we have thoroughly enjoyed hosting Jermaine Francis’ work in the Living Room, and invite you to come talk about your photographic work with peers, with Jermaine, and with HAPAX at the table to celebrate the last day of his exhibition here. Please stay afterwards for tea and cake.

Thank you for your support of Hapax Magazine: commissioning and publishing new photographic ideas

10/06/2025

EXTENDED ⭐️ JERMAINE FRANCIS - Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix continues at HAPAX Living Room until 22 June .

Opening Hours:
June 5-11: 11.00 – 16.00

June 12-22: by appointment (email [email protected])

⭐️ HAPAX Idea Snack
Special Guest, Jermaine Francis
June 22: 13.00 - 15.00 Sign up soon for our second HAPAX Idea Snack peer to peer photography discussion group, where we welcome our special guest Jermaine Francis to the discussions as we learn about your recent projects. Spaces are free but limited, Eventbrite coming soon.

⭐️ Finissage Tea and Cake
June 22: 15.00 Join us to celebrate Jermaine’s HAPAX Living Room exhibition, with tea and cake

HAPAX Living Room
1st Floor, Empress Studios, 17 Empress Place, London SW6 1TT (Tube: West Brompton / Earls Court)

02/06/2025

Join us on Sunday 8th June 3pm for a special artist talk : Jermaine Francis in conversation with Kobi Prempeh. RSVP on Eventbrite (link in bio)

HAPAX welcomes JERMAINE FRANCIS for the first exhibition in our West London space dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art

From 4th-11th June 2025, Jermaine Francis takes over the HAPAX Living Room to present his multi-format response, ‘Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix’.

JERMAINE FRANCIS is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with photography, video, and other mediums. His practice is characterized by a deep investigation into the parameters of these mediums, and how they shape our understanding of visual culture. He explores their roles in storytelling and the construction of memory within contemporary and historical narratives. Francis has exhibited in shows at the International Center of Photography, New York; The National Portrait Gallery, London; Haus Wien, Austria; galeriepcp Paris, Centre for British Photography, London; The Saatchi Gallery, London; Pembroke JCR Gallery, Oxford; The Camden Arts Centre, London; Sherbet Green, London; Peckham24 Photo Festival 2024; Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and will appear in the 2025 edition of Photo London.

KOBI PREMPEH is a curator at fynn studio, the London based art collective with curatorial credits at Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery and 180 Studios. Purposed with celebrating community through contemporary art, fynn studio returns to themes around rave as part of its cultural storytelling to encourage the recognition of overlooked groups and the interruption of pre-established narratives. fynn studio has been an consultant to Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on Black culture and creativity since 2023. thefynn.com

HAPAX Living Room
Empress Studios
17 Empress Place, 1st Floor
London SW6 1TT

01/06/2025

OPEN CALL until 11th June - Now welcoming submissions of interest for making new work for issue #8

HAPAX Magazine commissions artists and curators working with photography. We’d like to hear from you if you are interested in being commissioned to make new work for our magazine: a print publication which showcases only newly created ideas on its pages, and doesn’t share them online.

HAPAX is not a thematic publication, so we are interested in ideas from any artist or curator working with photography in any way. The unifying theme of the publication is that the ideas inside haven’t existed in print before and the idea you pitch is somehow a departure for your practice.

Please have a look at our previous issues and at our site, which details how we work - timing, commission, contact information - and drop us a line to let us know if you are interested.

Thank you for sharing this opportunity with friends and colleagues who you feel may be interested or may benefit from this opportunity.

We aim to close our open call for ideas by midnight June 11th and look forward to hearing from you.

Issue 7 is going to print soon and look forward to sharing details later this month.

And if you are in London please us this week in the HAPAX Living Room for a special week of artist takeover by Jermaine Francis.

06/05/2025

Coming soon: HAPAX Living Room welcomes JERMAINE FRANCIS for the first exhibition in our West London space dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art

4th-11th June 2025, Jermaine Francis takes over the HAPAX Living Room to present his multi-format response, ‘Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix’. Transporting us on a kaleidoscopic journey through Post-industrial Britain, hyper-productivity, political ruptures, dance music, labour, race and its intersections with class. Francis’ work is a purposeful collage of contemporary and archival material in a cacophonic style that mimics the wasteland of information we’re often presented with. Fast streams of internet visuals that we can’t fully grasp, video footage of dancefloors, communities, industrial spaces and urban regeneration.

Accompanying Francis’ video piece and photographic works will be a new audio piece and a radio broadcast in collaboration with Ibrahim Azab, presented in this West London flat surrounded by a future urban regeneration project.

⭐️ JERMAINE FRANCIS - Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix

⭐️ Opening Party
June 4: 18.00-21.00

⭐️ Exhibition continues
June 5-11: 10.00 – 16.00

⭐️ Artist conversation
June 11: 15.00 – 16.00
Jermaine Francis will be in conversation about this project and his practice

⭐️ HAPAX Living Room
1st Floor, Empress Studios
17 Empress Place, London SW6 1TT (Tube: West Brompton / Earls Court)

Full details in bio and https://www.hapaxmagazine.com/livingroom

With thanks to for their collaboration

Image: Still from ‘Post-Industrial Dreamscape’ ©️ Jermaine Francis

24/04/2025

***3rd May Event now sold out***

Thank you for everyone who messaged about our first peer to peer photo discussion on 3rd May. This event has quickly booked up and we look forward to hosting 8 special artists discussing their work next Saturday.

If you weren’t able to book a place this time, please do join us on future peer to peer photo discussion open tables, dates of which will be announced on our mailing list. Please visit our site to join the mailing list www.hapaxmagazine.com

We welcome everyone to stop in to the HAPAX Living Room for our opening exhibition in the space, celebrating all our 50+ commissioned artists and curators in our first six issues, 1-4 May. Details and timings on our site https://www.hapaxmagazine.com/livingroom

We are currently working on our next issue and an exciting lineup of future exhibitions in the HAPAX Living Room. See you soon!

❤️ HAPAX

24/04/2025

Welcome to HAPAX

HAPAX is founded and run by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. Our magazine commissions new photographic ideas, which we publish twice per year in print and don’t share online.

We believe in incubating new projects, which are in some way a departure from an artist’s previous practice, to help artists and curators test out their new ideas in a publication full of ideas and images which haven’t been published before. Every magazine sold helps fund the next commission opportunities.

We also now have a studio/exhibition space - HAPAX Living Room - in Earls Court, and you are welcome to visit us for an exhibition or to take part in events.

☕️Join us on Saturday, 3rd May, 2 - 4 pm at HAPAX Living Room for the first of our monthly peer-to-peer sessions, discussing photography over coffee .

There are 8 places available for this special photographers‘ session, please book your place here for an afternoon of coffee, sharing images and ideas.

Link in bio to secure your place at the table via Eventbrite

✨Thank you for your support of Hapax Magazine: commissioning and publishing new photographic ideas

12/03/2025

⭐️ HAPAX Magazine - Until Now… ⭐️
Opening night - 1st May 2025 - 7-9pm

Exhibition continues - 2nd to 4th May 10am to 4pm

You are cordially invited to the opening reception of HAPAX Living Room to help us to launch this new space in London for lens-based art and to celebrate the first 6 editions of HAPAX Magazine.

Our launch event ‘HAPAX Magazine, Until Now’ will show the printed pages of the 50+ artists who have been commissioned and facilitated to make new works for the publication so far.

Over four years we have had the privilege of reproducing these new works and will be showing them as deconstructed copies of each of the magazines pinned to the walls of HAPAX Living Room - hanging these magazine pages as the small exhibitions we have always considered them to be.

Details of how to RSVP to this special evening can be found on our site (or drop us an email), we can’t wait to tell you more about the projects we will be sharing with you here in the coming months.

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