From 18.30 the Editor Ghislain Pascal will be in conversation with Max Houghton. The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and more celebrations and drinks in the bar.

Ghislain Pascal was a renowned publicist and celebrity agent for many years - including representing the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. Following the death of Bob Carlos Clarke he co-founded The Little Black Gallery in Chelsea, London in 2008. He is the Editor and Curator of their BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! programme to promote queer and gay photography. It now represents more that 65 photographers from 30 countries - including China, India, Iran, Poland, and Russia where gay rights are repressed and queer lives under constant threat. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! includes exhibitions, books, their bi-annual magazine, photography courses, competitions, and online art platform.

Max Houghton is a writer, editor and curator working with the photographic image as it intersects with politics, law and human rights. She runs the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, where she organises regular public talks, symposia and exhibitions. A former co-editor of Foto8 Magazine, her writing has appeared in publications by The Photographers’ Gallery and The Barbican, as well as in the international arts press including Foam, 1000 Words, Photoworks and Granta. She is co-author, with Fiona Rogers, of Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now (Thames and Hudson, 2017). Houghton is a Laws faculty scholarship doctoral candidate at University College London.