Café Royal Books

Café Royal Books is an independent publisher[1][2] of photography photobooks or zines,[3] run by Craig Atkinson and based in Ainsdale, Southport, England.

[4][5][6] Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social and cultural change, Including themes of youth, leisure, music, protest, race, religion, industry, identity, architecture and fashion, often in Britain and Ireland,[4][5][7][8] using both new work and photographs from archives.

[22] The booklets have a consistent print quality, paper and layout;[4] they are laid out to a grid system, usually 36 pages in length, slightly under A5 size, predominantly black & white and affordable.

[i] The booklets predominantly document social, historical and cultural change,[4][5][7][8] including themes of youth, leisure, music, protest, race, religion, industry, identity, architecture and fashion, using both previously unpublished work and photographs from archives.

[9] Atkinson wrote in 2013 that emphasis "is given to work that encourages new ways of thinking about existing material or language which demonstrates the importance of using, documenting, collecting and observing a particular process or thing.