Toks Majek is a London-based photographer whose black-and-white work turns ordinary moments into quiet theatre. A self-taught street shooter, he has walked the city for three years, creating over sixty-thousand images that merge instinct, rhythm and reflection.
A former portrait and fashion photographer, Majek turned to the streets after being diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, an incurable nerve condition that made communication unpredictable and painful. Living with aphantasia — the inability to form mental images — he photographs not what he imagines, but what he discovers. For him, photography is both memory and proof: a way of keeping hold of moments that would otherwise vanish.
His candid, cinematic approach earned him a place in the 2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize and a Wellcome Trust commission. His portraits of Karishma Patel, the former BBC presenter who resigned over media bias, exemplify his commitment to social honesty and human detail.
Majek is represented by Boomer Gallery, whose Artsy platform now features his work as part of their contemporary photography programme. His ongoing projects include the zine A Time Before Timeless, the forthcoming Never Never Streets Vol. 2, and the 300-page WHISTLE a streetshooters take on 3 years of London’s Notttinghill Carnival. He continues to develop A Glass Apart and Head Gloves (formerly Hat’s It!) while expanding his study of London’s shifting rhythm — one stranger, one moment, one reflection at a time. The pieces below are currently available to purchase on Artsy
