Designed as a welcoming reading room, the library offers a place for everyone to explore many books and reflect on the common threads running through stories of resilience, community, friendship, subversion, identity, and queerness.

Presenting the many languages of love through a global lens, photobooks from Tami Aftab, Ollie Adegboye, Deana Lawson, Ewen Spencer, and many others explore love’s complex and varying iterations: tender, provocative, queer, defiant and sacrificial.

Together, this series of eclectic narratives attempts to articulate love’s capacity to endure amidst adversity and its revolutionary power to resist.

The 2024 Develop collective are:

Tolu Elusadé
Charlie Bird
Madeleine Woodhous
Kymara Akinpelumi
Taja Lewis Boodie
Kairo Urovi