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NEW! 2026 MYLONDON calendars will be available here from Friday 8 August. The Crowdfunder is from 8 August to Sunday 7 September 2025 with a target of £11,000.

About MYLONDON

Every year we do a contest with single-use film cameras with people who are homeless or have been homeless.

Photographers are given the cameras free of charge and we pay prize money for 50 photos or sets of photos taken on the cameras. From the photos we publish calendars and cards for people who are homeless or recently homeless to sell in Elizabeth line train stations, office buildings and Spitalfields market.

How we produced the calendars and cards

Forty three single-use Fujifilm QuickSnap film cameras were given to people with lived experience of homelessness at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday May 2, 2025.

The annual crowdfunder will help pay the production costs of the 2026 MYLONDON calendars and greetings cards. Profits from the sale of cards and calendars will be paid to the photographers who have experienced or are still experiencing homelessness.

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.

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 another £50 at the launch of the crowdfunding campaign 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

Water Tower House by Maurice Woolger

St Paul's Cathedral from side ally by Raha Faranaz

Dogs by Lui Saatchi

Looking up, the City of London by Lui Saatchi

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.