Lewis Chaplin (b. 1992) is a British book-maker and graphic designer based in Marseille, France. In 2014, he co-founded Loose Jointsloosejoints.biz, an award-winning publishing house and design studio, alongside Sarah Chaplin Espenon. In 2021, they opened Ensembleensemble.biz, an independent bookshop and gallery in Marseille.
Loose Joints collaborates with leading and emerging artists on contemporary approaches to photography in book form, circulating new visual perspectives through a list that seeks to elevate underrepresented voices in photographic discourse. All design, editing and production are done in-house. Loose Joints also works independently as a design studioloosejoints.studio across publishing and the arts, and ran a publishing and residency award from 2021–24 with Mahler & LeWitt Studios.
Notable publications include The ClassroomThe Classroom, 2025
Photobook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards by Hicham Benohoud, DisruptionsDisruptions, 2023
Photobook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards by Taysir Batniji, PériphériquePériphérique, 2021
Photobook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards by Mohamed Bourouissa and Living TrustLiving Trust, 2019
First PhotoBook, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards by Buck Ellison. Over the last twelve years Loose Joints has published and designed more than one hundred books, including collaborations with
Jason FulfordFrozen Features, 2026,
Abdulhamid KircherNew Genesis, 2026
Rotting from Within, 2024,
Roe EthridgeIn the Beginning, 2026
Rude in the Good Way, 2026,
Daniel ArnoldYou Are What You Do, 2025,
Hoda AfsharThe Fold, 2025,
Malick SidibéPainted Frames, 2025,
Felipe Romero BeltránBravo, 2025
Dialect, 2023,
Pacifico SilanoShadow Cast, 2024
I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine, 2021,
Rahim FortuneHardtack, 2024
Nominated, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025
I can’t stand to see you cry, 2021,
Sam YoukilisSomewhere 2017–2023, 2023,
Oliver Frank ChanarinA Perfect Sentence, 2023,
Richard MosseBroken Spectre, 2022,
Jack DavisonOl Pejeta, 2021
Song Flowers, 2020
Photographs, 2019
and Harley WeirPaintings, 2017
Homes, 2016.
Previously, Chaplin co-ran publisher fourteen-nineteen2009–14 and the experimental bookfair Copeland Book Market2011–14, and was senior designer at MACK2015–18. His academic background is in Social Anthropology, and included collaborative visual ethnographic research with online fetish communities2041, Here Press, and with the remotest inhabited island in the world.