MANIFEST
A Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Made possible with our partners North East Maritime Trust and Training Ship Collingwood facilitated by Terry Ford of South Shields Local History Group. With thanks to Alec Renwick, John Eltringham and Keith Trotter.
PhotoMonth east London festival of photography 2025
Link:
https://photomonth.co.uk/whats-on
Location:
Pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin steamship, moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place E14 0JW.
Nearest tube: Canning Town
Exhibition preview:
16.00 – 20.00 Thursday 2nd October as part of PhotoMonth festival launch evening
Public opening times:
11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2025
11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October 2025
Plant-based imaging workshops: creating ‘botanicograms’ with Megan Ringrose: 11.00 – 16.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October.
Limited spaces book now: HERE
Guided Walk: by author Travis Elborough, 14.30 – 16.30 Sunday 5th October. Meeting at Limehouse station Bekesbourne Street E14 7JQ, to reveal the lost histories of London’s first Chinatown and the haunts of such luminaries as Charles Dickens and painter Francis Bacon.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/event/675601
Guided Walk: by social historian Ken Worpole, 13.30 – 15.30 Sunday 12th October. Meeting at Making Space, 48 Aberfeldy Street E14 0NU, ending at pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/
This collection of co-created glass plate/salt print photographic process is the core of Manifest exploring a semi-fictionalised inventory of the Victorian steamship SS Robin, built on the Lower Lea in 1890, then fitted out with winches and windlasses made on Tyneside.
Part of the three year SE.E NE.W Histories programme, a title offered up by the compass points of four other activity locations emanating from Trinity Buoy Wharf, there will be accompanying imaging workshops using processes from the project’s 1790-1920 timespan.
Now returned right back to where it was built, the 350 ton SS Robin is supported out of the water on a giant pontoon, inside which this installation is being staged, involving the welcome participation of the group who brought the Robin over from Bilbao in the 1970s. Displayed ephemera will include material from the 1980s and collected items from merchant navy history in the period of the ship’s working life.
The portraits and boatbuilding studies for Manifest were created throughout May 2025, led by curator and producer Garry Hunter working with specialist photographer Jonathan Turner of Lens Lab Leeds and visual artist Doralba Picerno. The salt print process perfected by Jonathan over months of experimentation requires the use of glass plate technology of the late 19th century, with resulting negatives printed onto watercolour paper embedded with salt and coated with silver halide. An interesting historical link with the Tyne is that South Shields was once famous for creating salt by boiling seawater in giant pans, becoming the country’s largest producer in an industry that lasted into the 1820s: right at the time when photographic imaging first became fixable.
Manifest is a Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Produced by Fitzrovia Noir
Co-curated by Fitzrovia Noir and Elyssa Sian Sykes-Smith
MANIFEST
A Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Made possible with our partners North East Maritime Trust and Training Ship Collingwood facilitated by Terry Ford of South Shields Local History Group. With thanks to Alec Renwick, John Eltringham and Keith Trotter.
PhotoMonth east London festival of photography 2025
Link:
https://photomonth.co.uk/whats-on
Location:
Pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin steamship, moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place E14 0JW.
Nearest tube: Canning Town
Exhibition preview:
16.00 – 20.00 Thursday 2nd October as part of PhotoMonth festival launch evening
Public opening times:
11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2025
11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October 2025
Plant-based imaging workshops: creating ‘botanicograms’ with Megan Ringrose: 11.00 – 16.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October.
Limited spaces book now: HERE
Guided Walk: by author Travis Elborough, 14.30 – 16.30 Sunday 5th October. Meeting at Limehouse station Bekesbourne Street E14 7JQ, to reveal the lost histories of London’s first Chinatown and the haunts of such luminaries as Charles Dickens and painter Francis Bacon.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/event/675601
Guided Walk: by social historian Ken Worpole, 13.30 – 15.30 Sunday 12th October. Meeting at Making Space, 48 Aberfeldy Street E14 0NU, ending at pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/
This collection of co-created glass plate/salt print photographic process is the core of Manifest exploring a semi-fictionalised inventory of the Victorian steamship SS Robin, built on the Lower Lea in 1890, then fitted out with winches and windlasses made on Tyneside.
Part of the three year SE.E NE.W Histories programme, a title offered up by the compass points of four other activity locations emanating from Trinity Buoy Wharf, there will be accompanying imaging workshops using processes from the project’s 1790-1920 timespan.
Now returned right back to where it was built, the 350 ton SS Robin is supported out of the water on a giant pontoon, inside which this installation is being staged, involving the welcome participation of the group who brought the Robin over from Bilbao in the 1970s. Displayed ephemera will include material from the 1980s and collected items from merchant navy history in the period of the ship’s working life.
The portraits and boatbuilding studies for Manifest were created throughout May 2025, led by curator and producer Garry Hunter working with specialist photographer Jonathan Turner of Lens Lab Leeds and visual artist Doralba Picerno. The salt print process perfected by Jonathan over months of experimentation requires the use of glass plate technology of the late 19th century, with resulting negatives printed onto watercolour paper embedded with salt and coated with silver halide. An interesting historical link with the Tyne is that South Shields was once famous for creating salt by boiling seawater in giant pans, becoming the country’s largest producer in an industry that lasted into the 1820s: right at the time when photographic imaging first became fixable.
Manifest is a Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Produced by Fitzrovia Noir
Co-curated by Fitzrovia Noir and Elyssa Sian Sykes-Smith
MANIFEST
A Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Made possible with our partners North East Maritime Trust and Training Ship Collingwood facilitated by Terry Ford of South Shields Local History Group. With thanks to Alec Renwick, John Eltringham and Keith Trotter.
PhotoMonth east London festival of photography 2025
Link: https://photomonth.co.uk/whats-on
Location: Pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin steamship, moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place E14 0JW.
Nearest tube: Canning Town
Exhibition preview: 16.00 – 20.00 Thursday 2nd October as part of PhotoMonth festival launch evening
Public opening times: 11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October | 11.00 – 17.00 Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October
Plant-based imaging workshops: creating ‘botanicograms’ with Megan Ringrose: 11.00 – 16.00 Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October.
Limited spaces book now: HERE
Guided Walk: by author Travis Elborough, 14.30 – 16.30 Sunday 5th October. Meeting at Limehouse station Bekesbourne Street E14 7JQ, to reveal the lost histories of London’s first Chinatown and the haunts of such luminaries as Charles Dickens and painter Francis Bacon.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/event/675601
Guided Walk: by social historian Ken Worpole, 13.30 – 15.30 Sunday 12th October. Meeting at Making Space, 48 Aberfeldy Street E14 0NU, ending at pontoon exhibition space supporting SS Robin at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Limited spaces bookable now at https://wegottickets.com/
This collection of co-created glass plate/salt print photographic process is the core of Manifest exploring a semi-fictionalised inventory of the Victorian steamship SS Robin, built on the Lower Lea in 1890, then fitted out with winches and windlasses made on Tyneside.
Part of the three year SE.E NE.W Histories programme, a title offered up by the compass points of four other activity locations emanating from Trinity Buoy Wharf, there will be accompanying imaging workshops using processes from the project’s 1790-1920 timespan.
Now returned right back to where it was built, the 350 ton SS Robin is supported out of the water on a giant pontoon, inside which this installation is being staged, involving the welcome participation of the group who brought the Robin over from Bilbao in the 1970s. Displayed ephemera will include material from the 1980s and collected items from merchant navy history in the period of the ship’s working life.
The portraits and boatbuilding studies for Manifest were created throughout May 2025, led by curator and producer Garry Hunter working with specialist photographer Jonathan Turner of Lens Lab Leeds and visual artist Doralba Picerno. The salt print process perfected by Jonathan over months of experimentation requires the use of glass plate technology of the late 19th century, with resulting negatives printed onto watercolour paper embedded with salt and coated with silver halide. An interesting historical link with the Tyne is that South Shields was once famous for creating salt by boiling seawater in giant pans, becoming the country’s largest producer in an industry that lasted into the 1820s: right at the time when photographic imaging first became fixable.
Manifest is a Fitzrovia Noir project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, SS Robin Trust and Soho Printstore, as part of PhotoMonth 2025.
Produced by Fitzrovia Noir
Co-curated by Fitzrovia Noir and Elyssa Sian Sykes-Smith