UNSEENPRESS DISTRO CLUB
Est. Plymouth, UK Multi-vendor marketplace Photobooks & zines Community Interest Company

Distro - Club Making is just the beginning.

The independent marketplace for photozines and photobooks. Built for makers, run by makers. List your work, set your price, ship it yourself, and keep 85p of every pound.

The split

You made it.
You keep most of it.

85%
To the maker · on every sale

Every sale returns 85% directly to you. We keep 15% to run the platform. No hidden fees, no minimum editions, no exclusivity.

Where you sellYou keep
Distro Club85%
Etsy + fees~78%
Typical distributors~50%
Amazon~35%

The photobook world has a gatekeeping problem. We are not the gate.

Unseenpress Collective CIC · a community interest company · Plymouth, UK
For makers

Your work, your terms, your money.

Five steps from application to first sale. Whether you've printed ten copies or five hundred, you belong here.

01

Apply for a free account

Tell us who you are and what you make. We review for quality, not aesthetics.

02

Claim your storefront

Premium membership gives you your own branded storefront and URL.

03

List your publications

Upload covers, set prices, write descriptions. Your voice, your pricing.

04

Sell and ship direct

Orders land in your dashboard. You fulfil them. The buyer relationship is yours.

05

Keep 85%

Every sale splits automatically. Stay as long as your practice needs, and come and go freely.

What we stock

Every form, every genre, every edition.

Any publication that takes photography seriously: a hand-stapled eight-page zine or a case-bound monograph, an edition of five or five hundred.

+Photozines: risograph, photocopied, hand-printed, digital. All welcome.
+Photobooks: self-published, print-on-demand, offset. All welcome.
+Limited editions: artist's books, hand-bound, unique objects. All welcome.
+Students, graduates, independent learners, established practitioners. All welcome.
Work that harms, exploits, or is made in bad faith. Not welcome.
Who we are

A community interest company.

Unseenpress is a registered CIC. The fair-economics model is written into our articles of association: structural, not promotional.

Locked in

The 85/15 split is fixed.

No investors

No outside capital. The platform exists to serve the community.

Founded by makers

Started by Robin Mudge and a group of photographers, not entrepreneurs.

Community asset

Any surplus is reinvested into community activity, never extracted as profit.

Ready to join

Start selling.
Keep 85%.

Apply for a maker account today. No listing fees, no minimum editions, no editorial approval. Your work goes live when you're ready.