The third iteration of the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship is now open for submissions. This opportunity in collaboration with The Ampersand Foundation, is for a mid-career photographer living in the UK. The fellowship will provide a transformative opportunity to complete a new body of work.
The artist will be selected through a free open call; submissions close Monday 15 September 2025, at 12pm (BST). We are looking for projects which are already in the development phase, that will benefit from financial resources and curatorial guidance, and which can be completed in a 12-month timeframe. An expert panel of curators and artists will decide the shortlist and final selection of the fellowship awardee.
Meet the selection panel
Danit Ariel is an artist, writer and curator, whose practice looks into how art can create new ways of meeting. She is the author of Nayah: Empathy as an Act of Resistance which explores the role of gender in practices of empathy; and All the Tables are Brown, looking more specifically at language as both a bridge and barrier between communities. As Photoworks’ Curator, she mentors artists in developing new work and manages the curatorial programme and Photoworks Festival.
Felicity Hammond is an artist based in South London. She is a senior lecturer on the MA Photography programme at Kingston University. Hammond received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 2014 and a PhD in Contemporary Art Research from Kingston University in 2021. Hammond’s work has received and been nominated for a number of awards, including being the recipient of the Ampersand Photoworks Fellowship (2023) and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (longlist, 2019).
Shoair Mavlian is Director of The Photographers’ Gallery and leads the strategic vision, artistic direction and commercial enterprises. She was previously Director of Photoworks where she oversaw exhibitions, biennial festival, commissions, learning and engagement. From 2011-2018 Mavlian was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London.
Dr Charmaine Toh is Senior Curator, International Art (Photography) at Tate. Her research interests include alternative histories of photography and the colonial photographic archive. Charmaine is the author of Imagining Singapore: Pictorial Photography from the 1950s to the 1970s (Brill, 2023) and is currently working on an exhibition about the expanded global histories of Pictorialism.
Flor Souto is the Director of The Ampersand Foundation and has led the organisation since its inception in 2011.
