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Photograph by Ibrahim Azab, titled (PW)_H3RE N0W)//_SINCE TH3N, 2020

Umhlabathi: On Land, Environment, and Collective Creation

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Nadia Huggins on Freedom, the Ocean, and Re-Presenting the Caribbean

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Working with Elements: Lucas Leffler on Zilverbeek (Silver Creek) and New Possibilities in Photography

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Photography for the Future: Hannah Fletcher and Matt Barker on Sustainable Practices and Why Photography Matters

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Community Submission: Laura Denning’s Toxic Monocultures

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Explore a range of digital content from our programme, including texts, films, talks, playlists, podcasts and more.

Instagram Takeover: Alice Quaresma

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Instagram Takeover: Lucy Bailey

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Instagram Takeover: Alexander Komenda

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Photography Club Brighton & Hove

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Instagram Takeover: Joanna Wierzbicka

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News

Cultural Partnership! WOPHA Congress

Posted on: 29 Oct 2021

England's New Lenses, vandalism of exhibition at Wrest Park

Posted on: 16 Oct 2021

Announcing Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates Awardees of the fourth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards

Posted on: 20 Sep 2021

Artist Announcement! Picturing England’s High Streets

Posted on: 1 Jul 2021

Photoworks X Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Alix Marie: Styx

Posted on: 30 Jun 2021

Johny Pitts announced as inaugural Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship recipient

Posted on: 27 May 2021

Welcome to our 2021 Writer in Residence!

Posted on: 17 Mar 2021

MPB sponsor Photography+ in 2021!

Posted on: 17 Mar 2021

Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and a commitment to be actively anti-racist

Posted on: 8 Jun 2020

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Hi, this is @doralionstoned taking over Photoworks’ Instagram this week.

I’m a visual artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. In my work, I am searching for ambiguities and multiple perspectives that challenge our perception of reality. I aim to create new worlds by combining fact and fiction, science and imagination.

This image is part of my project ‘Cosmic Stream’ and was inspired by the ancient Greek philosopher Thales, who is said to have envisioned the Earth as a spherical being that floats on water.

‘Cosmic Stream’ (2020) is an exploration of the inner space of the mind in relation to the mysteries of the universe. Inspired by daydreams, myths and scientific paradoxes, it visualises an alternate cosmos that follows a stream of consciousness.

‘Earth as a looking glass’, from Cosmic Stream (2020).

ID: Image of a sphere floating on water.

#doralionstone #water #universe #daydream #photoworksuk

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Hi, this is @doralionstoned taking over Photoworks’ Instagram this week. I’m looking forward to sharing some work from different projects here in the coming days.

I’m a visual artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. In my work, I am searching for ambiguities and multiple perspectives that challenge our perception of reality. I aim to create new worlds by combining fact and fiction, science and imagination.

This image is part of my multimedia project ‘Cosmic Stream’ (2020), which is an exploration of the inner space of the mind in relation to the mysteries of the universe. Inspired by daydreams, myths and scientific paradoxes, it visualises an alternate cosmos that follows a stream of consciousness.

Bubbleverse, from Cosmic Stream, 2020.

ID: Black and white collage with two bubbles floating above a mountain

#doralionstone #photoworksuk #bubble #universe #cosmicstream

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Starting this Wednesday!

The Photoworks Winter School Masterclass programme is starting soon! There is still time to book your place to hear first-hand from:

@hodaafshar, @ben.burbridge, @natasha.caruana, @zorajmurff

Head to the link in our bio to find out more.

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Hi everyone, this is @steffidrerup on the last day of this week’s Photoworks Instagram Takeover. Throughout this week, I have been showing my project ‘ichfolgedessen’, and here I would like to share one last essential image with you.

Huge thanks to @photoworks_uk for giving me this opportunity to show my work!

Ichfolgedessen

A fragment from one of the rejection letters Anna and Friedrich received. This particular one was ordering them to end the relationship immediately, to prevent severe consequences.

The Nazi who had written the letter had made a typo, meaning to write 'Infolgedessen' ('Consequently') but had written 'Ichfolgedessen'.

Although this is not a real word, it could be interpreted as 'I follow his...'
It is an intriguing word, since I am ‘following’ my grandfather's traces, trying to forensically piece together his story. And also, I am ‘following’ him as his descendant.

But, as before with the symbol of the birds and the eye, to ‘follow’ also implies a double meaning: in order to follow somebody, there also needs to be someone leading ahead - and 'leader' in German is 'Fuehrer'.

ID: A photograph of a detail from a document containing just one word, white on black background.

‘ichfolgedessen’ is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 2022.

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Hi everyone, it’s @steffidrerup here again taking over the @photoworks_uk account this week. Today, I will be sharing some more images from my book ‘ichfolgedessen’.

Great-granddaughter

A detail of my daughter’s portrait, representing my grandfather's descendants, who wouldn't be here today hadn't it been for Irene's photograph.
Also, the eye is a recurrent theme in this body of work, a symbol of the ubiquitous threat of denunciation during the Third Reich.

ID: A detail of a young girl’s portrait looking at directly at the viewer

‘ichfolgedessen’ is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 2022;

#steffidrerup #ichfolgedessen #isthisevenaword? #photoworksuk #portrait #fotobookfestivalkassel

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