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Our Bookshop has a fantastic selection of Café Royal Books in store and online. Prices start at £6.
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CRB has become a repository of soul that weaves together epic chronicles of daily life.
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Founded by Craig Atkinson in Southport in 2005, Café Royal Books has been producing affordable weekly publications since 2012. Spanning more than 600 issues, there is now a large, unique printed archive of documentary photography with historical significance, often featuring previously unseen or overlooked work.
Published photographers include Daniel Meadows, Shirley Baker, Martin Parr, Chris Killip, Janine Wiedel and Jo Spence, as well as many less well-known photographers. Many of the Café Royal Books artists have exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery previously.
Browse a selection of Café Royal books on display and flick through at your leisure.
We also have plenty of books on sale in our bookshop and online.
I want them to be affordable, democratic, useful and functional. I’m not into publishing decorative things or something so expensive that most people can’t afford them. Someone once said they’re often less than the price of a London pint, so I use that as a measure.
Craig Atkinson
