Talk: A century of the Photobooth

06:30pm - 07:45pm, Fri 13 Feb 2026

Hear writer and cultural historian Nakki Goranin, author of American Photobooth, and writer and filmmaker Raynal Pellicer, author of Photobooth: The Art of the Automatic Portrait, for an in-depth discussion of the photobooth’s 100-year history

Photography of two books, side by side

Talk: A century of the Photobooth

6:30pm, Fri 13 Feb 2026

Hear writer and cultural historian Nakki Goranin, author of American Photobooth, and writer and filmmaker Raynal Pellicer, author of Photobooth: The Art of the Automatic Portrait, for an in-depth discussion of the photobooth’s 100-year history

Taking place alongside Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth, currently on view at the Gallery, we discuss the photobooth as a social and historical object — from its early adoption for official identification to its later embrace by artists, subcultures and popular culture. 

Drawing on extensive archival research and personal collections, Nakki Goranin and Raynal Pellicer explore how photobooth images have circulated across private, institutional and public contexts, and what they reveal about changing ideas of identity, visibility and self-representation over time.

 

This event coincides with Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth, featuring work from the collection of Raynal Pellicer and is part of a year-long programme of centenary celebrations, in partnership with AUTOFOTO

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