Pilot Press is the imprint of artist Richard Porter, started in 2017 to help retrieve a philosophy of publishing lost to AIDS and capitalism.

Initially a project distributed among friends, its titles are now stocked by independent bookshops worldwide, and are held in several academic libraries and special collections for printed matter, including those at Tate Britain, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, University of Cambridge, University of Washington, Glasgow School of Art, National Gallery of Australia and the Wellcome Collection.

The press was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses in 2023, for the publication of My Dead Book: A Novel by Nate Lippens.

The press receives no external funding or support, with any profit from sales going towards the development and printing of its titles. As such it is a precarious endeavour and fully reliant on its community of readers to keep it going.

To contact the press, please write to pilotpresslondon@gmail.com.