Pilot Press is the imprint of artist Richard Porter, started in 2017 to help retrieve a philosophy lost to AIDS and capitalism. It is a solo-run endeavour in the countercultural tradition of artists' DIY publishing and receives no external funding or institutional support. 

Its titles are stocked by independent bookshops worldwide and are held at several special collections for printed matter, including those at Tate, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, University of Cambridge, Glasgow School of Art, National Gallery of Australia and the Wellcome Collection.

In 2023, the press was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses for the publication of My Dead Book,  the debut novel of American writer Nate Lippens. Its titles have also been featured by publications including the Guardian, Interview Magazine, TLS, GRANTA, Los Angeles Review of Books, Frieze and The Big Issue.

For U.K. and international distribution enquiries, please contact Bryony Lloyd at Public Knowledge Books: bryony@publicknowledgebooks.com.

To contact the press, write to pilotpresslondon@gmail.com. As a very small operation it is not always possible to respond to every enquiry received.