Photography is mostly a solitary thing. You're out there alone with your camera, making your own calls, second-guessing your own work. The Collab Collective is the antidote to that — a standing invitation to put the camera down for a bit and be around people who get it.

Once a month, we get together. No agenda, no skill test, no one checking what's in your bag. Just photographers in the same room — talking shop, swapping what we've been working on, sometimes heading out to shoot, always glad for the company. Bring questions, bring frustrations, bring that one photograph you can't decide if you love. Or bring nothing but yourself.

It doesn't matter if you've been at this forty years or four months. It doesn't matter what you shoot or what you shoot it with. If you care about making photographs, you have a place here.

That's the whole idea. Show up. Meet your people.

What to expect

• A relaxed monthly get-together — coffee, conversation, and good company
• Photographers of every level and every genre, all welcome
• Talking through work, sharing what we're making, learning from each other
• Sometimes a shoot, sometimes just good talk — never any pressure
• No cost to belong, no skill required, no one left on the outside