HAPAX Magazine

Welcome to the 9th issue of HAPAX, an international photography publication which commissions and publishes new photographic ideas, only in print. Including new projects from Holly Lynton (USA), Sergey Novikov (RUS/UK), Akin Oladimeji (UK) and Frida Orupabo (Nor), Chino Otsuka (JP/UK) Christiane Zschlommler (GER/UK) and Duncan Wooldridge (UK). Issue 9 marks over fifty new projects commissioned for the pages of HAPAX in our issues to date and the first issue to include inserted artist’s images. We hope you will treasure this special collection of images you can’t find elsewhere in print.

ISSN 2754-2882
76 pages plus 9 inserted images
Softcover, stitched binding and gatefolds
Published Autumn 2026 (UK)
Dimension 23.5 x 17.5 cm

Contributors:
Holly Lynton is an artist working in photography whose multidisciplinary, research-based practice includes writing, historical research, and collaborative work in other media. Her work explores the intersections of faith, labor, history, and land in rural communities in the United States, with a focus on contemporary rituals and traditions rooted in history. Through the use of recognizable symbols and references, she examines how cultural visual memory shapes the way photographs are seen and understood. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and her photographs and books are held in major public collections including the MoMA Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library, Tate Museum Library, and the Center for Creative Photography. Her first book, Bare Handed (2022), was published by L’Artiere Edizioni. Lynton has received numerous awards and grants, including the Collection Award from Duke University’s Archive of Documentary Arts, an Aaron Siskind Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. She holds a BA in Psychology from Yale University and an MFA in Photography from Bard College, and is based in rural Massachusetts. Holly’s feature was selected in collaboration with Bristol Photo Festival 2026.

Sergey Novikov is a photographer whose projects focus on studying the economy and culture of territories and societies, as well as the mechanisms by which they function. His photographic practice includes interventions in urban landscapes, staging, and reenactments of the visual marks of modernity. His dummies and photo books have been shortlisted for several awards, including the BOPFOLIO Bristol (2024), the Images Vevey Dummy Award (2019 and 2021), the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in Arles (2016 and 2017), the Photobookfest Moscow Dummy Award (2017 and 2018), and the Anamorphosis Prize (2016). His projects and individual images have been exhibited in both solo and group shows at numerous venues, including Photoworks Weekender in Brighton; Salon/24, Photofusion in London; AFF Gallery in Berlin; Format Festival in Derby; the Noorderlicht Photography Festival in Groningen; and many others. Based in London.

Akin Oladimeji is a writer, lecturer, curator and critic working across various forms. His fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Aperture, Berlin Artlink, Burlington Contemporary, e-flux, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Photomonitor, Third Text Online, Wasafiri and elsewhere. He was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship for his PhD starting September 2024 via the London Arts and Humanities Partnership at University College London. His dissertation critically examines how the performance practices of Jelili Atiku, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and Zina Saro-Wiwa negotiate the entanglement of African concepts of performativity with Euro-American aesthetic and institutional paradigms.  Akin will be collaborating with Frida Orupabo for their HAPAX 9 feature.

Frida Orupabo is a photographer and artist born in 1986 in Sarpsborg who currently lives and works in Oslo. She has had major solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon (2026), Sprengel Museum in Hanover, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo. Her work has been recognized internationally through participation in major biennales such as the Venice Biennale (2018) and the São Paulo Biennial (2021), and she has received significant awards including the SPECTRUM International Photography Prize (2025) and the Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship (2023). Her work is held in the collections of over 30 major museums and institutions globally, including the Tate, Guggenheim Museum, LACMA, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Frida will be collaborating with Akin Oladimeji for their HAPAX 9 feature.

Chino Otsuka is a photographer, educator, and writer. Born in Japan, she moved to the UK to attend Summerhill School, and her experience of growing up as a third culture kid continues to inform her life and practice. Working with private and public photographic archives, Otsuka explores how personal and collective histories shape our understanding of identity and belonging, with particular attention to the ways memory operates through vernacular and snapshot photography. Her acclaimed series Imagine Finding Me has been exhibited in over 18 countries and featured in numerous publications and academic texts. Her work is held in the permanent collections of major international museums. Her practice-based research has led to an artist residency at the Nikkei National Museum in Canada and a creative research fellowship at the British Library. She has also authored four books published in Japan. With over 20 years of experience in photography education, she has taught as a museum educator, lecturer, and guest speaker at universities in the UK and abroad and continues to support the next generation of image-makers.

Duncan Wooldridge is an artist, writer and curator, and is Reader in Photography at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, MMU. He is the author of 'To Be Determined: Photography and the Future' (SPBH/Mack), the editor of the forthcoming ‘Written Down / Written Up: Collected Writings of John Hilliard’ (Mack) and the co-editor of Writer Conversations and Photobook Conversations (both published by 1000 Words) and 'The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies' (Routledge). He lives and works in Manchester. 

Christiane Zschommler was raised in East Berlin and relocated to the UK in 1992, where she studied Photography at the University of Westminster. Her practice explores memory, duration, and the subtle aftereffects of political and social systems, informed in part by her upbringing in the former GDR. Working across photography, artist books, archival material, and site-responsive processes, she investigates how images and objects shift in meaning over time through processes of repetition, light, and material transformation.  Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris, and presentations at York Art Gallery as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize exhibitions (2019–2021), and Brighton Photo Fringe. Alongside her artistic practice, she worked as a photography teacher in the UK for over 15 years.