2026 MYLONDON Calendar campaign
Four 2026 calendar sizes (Large, medium, small and desktop).
This Crowdfunder ends on
Monday 8 September 2025
£2,370.98 of £11,000
21.55% of target goal
from
71 people
22 days to go
Forty-three photographers were given single-use film cameras free of charge on May 2, 2025. Everyone received training in the centre of London - in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral.
At the launch of the public vote for the calendar photos we paid prize money for 50 photos or sets of photos taken on the cameras. From the photos chosen, we publish calendars and cards which we sell with people who are homeless or recently homeless in Elizabeth line train stations, office buildings and Spitalfields market. The profits go to them, with a goal of £25,000 to by paid out be the end of the project. We have already given out more than £2,750 in prize money, plus books donated by the RPS London Region (for the main prizes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, most creative photo and best portrait photo).
This annual crowdfunder will help pay the production costs of the 2026 MYLONDON calendars, the exhibition book and greetings cards.
Read the BIG ISSUE review of a recent calendar:
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/homeless-photographers-london-calendar/
Looking back: Peta Pixel (USA) on MYLONDON (2015)
Photos and cards from before the 2025 project are also being sold in this crowdfunding campaign with profits from each card sold going to the photographers.
This year for the first time we have created a coffee-table book filled with the full exhibition and articles about our project. We hope you like it!
MYLONDON 2026
MYLONDON 2026
From more than 1,000 photos, 25 were chosen by a selection panel of people from the homelessness-sector and professional photographers. The public then voted on the top 25 photos to choose the most popular ones.
All votes were anonymous - with no name or descriptions given. Voting on the top 25 took place in The London Photo Show, Spitalfields Market and Lush, Westfield Stratford City in June 2025 and people on the Cafe Art email list also voted.
Each person in the Top 25 was awarded £50 at the opening to the London Photo Show and the calendar photographers will be given £50 at the launch of the crowdfunding campaign on Friday August 8, 2025, including prizes for the first, second and third most popular photos as voted on by the judging panel and also by the public vote.
In addition, the selection panel has chosen a best portrait award and a most creative photo award. Both will be announced at the opening to the annual exhibition.
The photographers
The photographers included people who are sleeping rough (outside), people in homelessness-sector hostels and people who have been given public and private housing.
One of the main focuses of this project is to pay out profits to the participants. As well as the prize money, participants earn commission on all photographs and cards sold.
Since 2015 volunteers from The Royal Photographic Society (London Region) have trained photographers with lived experience of homelessness who have participated in the contest.
They meet on Saturday afternoons in locations all over London every two weekends, with a training session online in the middle weekend.
Fujifilm UK donated six X1 cameras in 2015 and in 2024 donated XT30 cameras and lenses to the group and provided generous discounts on additional kit.
In 2024 this project donated £3,000 from profits raised to buy eight XT-30 Fujifilm cameras. Fujifilm donated free lens.
The MYLONDON camera
Fujifilm provided QuickSnap one-time-use 400 asa film cameras for this projectr. Jessops developed and scanned the film and printed the photos for a discounted rate.
Environmental features
The MYLONDON exhibition and calendar are printed in England. This avoids the environmental impact of shipping, but also employs local people in the production process.
We have not wrapped our calendars in plastic since 2017. The plastic cameras are recycled or used as props to help us sell the calendars.
Using a calendar reduces your impact on the environment by reducing the time spent connected to the Internet. It also helps you to reduce your Cloud content.
Order your MYLONDON calendars and cards below
Dinosaur, Natural History Museum, by Maurice Woolger
Water Tower House by Maurice Woolger
St Paul's Cathedral from side ally by Raha Faranaz
Red Arrows by Kenny Murphy
Dolphin statue by Emane Filali
Woman drinking tea by Kenny Murphy
St Pancras Hotel by Emane Filali
Looking up, the City of London by Lui Saatchi
Chelsea Harbour, River Thames by Lewis Austin
SUNCREST by Richard Fletcher
2026 MyLondon calendars, cards & photos: prices, sizes and shipping
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Wall/hanging £7.50 - £15, Desktop/standing £12.50, Greetings card & envelope £2.50-£3, MYLONDON 2025 Exhibition Book £12.50, A4 (12" x 8") original photos £25
Shipping worldwide including tracked and environmentally friendly economy mail options. The wall calendar sizes are: Large Wall: 300mm x 300mm (12" x 12"), Medium Wall 240mm x 240mm (9.5" x 9.5"), Small Wall: 150mm x 150mm. The desktop (standing) calendar is 200mm x 200mm with metal spiro coil binding. MYLONDON 2025 Exhibition book: 240mm x 240mm (9.5" x 9.5"), Original photographs: 8" x 12" (A4)-sized we will send the photos with the calendars in October. Greetings card 130 mm x 180 mm, folded with envelope.
