“Thank You For Playing With Me” dives into concepts of modern beauty, documenting portraits of Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell from 2019 to 2022. This book is an intimate record of that journey. We went on the journey of transformation personally and collectively, finding our own foot in the world, career changes and moving cities, grieving the lost ones and celebrating the new life - sisterhood, womanhood and motherhood. It's a call for us all to play, to be human, and to celebrate the unique beauty that resides within each of us.

From 18.30 Yolanda will be in conversation with Gem Fletcher, followed by a Q&A.

After the talk she will be available to sign books.

There will be a display with works by Yolanda Y. Liou in the Bookshop, curated by Pelumi Odubanjo.

Yolanda Y. Liou (b. 1990, Taiwan) is a photographer and moving image maker based in London and Brighton, working with analogue film, digital and collage.  Her work focuses on connection and to offer a broader spectrum of representation and empower people to embrace their uniqueness. She’s awarded multiple prizes including the third prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2020. Her work has been published in Vogue, Nowness, Dazed, i-D, Creative Review amongst others. She has exhibited her photography in Shanghai, LA and the National Portrait Gallery, UK and has had film screenings internationally.

Gem Fletcher is a London-based writer, consultant and podcaster. Her work has been published in The British Journal of Photography, Foam, Aperture, Dazed, Creative Review, It’s Nice That and AnOther. She also hosts The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the future of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today.