Rhiannon Adam was born in Co. Cork, Ireland in the 80s. She studied Art and Design at Central Saint Martins before embracing Nabokov, banned books and nonsense poetry while studying English at the University of Cambridge. Adams is our next Instagram takeover on our account.

Photoworks are looking to commission a photographer or lens-based artist at any stage in their career to create a digital seasonal greeting card, to be sent out to mark the beginning of 2020, the organisation’s 25th anniversary year.

Ilona Szwarc’s series Unsex Me Here focuses on staged transformations based on personal experiences, shared here as part of Photography+ #4 Staged.

As part of Photography+ #4 Staged, we spoke to Hoda Afshar about her practice and the ways she merges conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Showing here her series Remain, made in collaboration with refugees held in a remote offshore detention centre.

For #4 Staged, we spoke to LIVE WILD, a fictional collective founded by artist Camille Lévêque consisting of seven imagined female artists. Here she explains her relationship to her work and her aliases.

Giovanna Petrocchi is an italian photographer based in London. She graduated from the London College of Communication with a BA in Photography in 2015 and she recently completed her MA in Visual Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, London.

For our Photography+ #4 Staged, we look back into our archives to the first issue of Photoworks Annual and Val Williams reviewing Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2003.

Barbara Probst, Exposures, 2000–present
Text by Shoair Mavlian

Mårten Lange (born 1984, Gothenburg, Sweden) is an artist working on a wide range of topics, among them, nature, technology and the urban environment.

NeoSpirituals are a community of artists, photographers, film makers, musicians who come together regularly to collaborate and produce art as a medium to push African culture forward and the rest of the world along with it.

Chris Hoare shares his series The Worst Poem in the Universe for his Instagram Takeover.

Emily Graham is a photographer, curator and producer based in London and the next guest editor for our Instagram takeover.

Chloe Sells becomes our next guest editor for our Instagram Takeover. Sells was born in Aspen, Colorado and began photographing in 1993.

Lauren Orchowski shares images from her series Rocket Science looking at The Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds located throughout North America. Orchowski shares why what inspires her to make work.

The relics of the early post war collaborative space project Symphonies and its impact on civilian communication and entertainment is explored in Raphaël Dallaporta’s project Relique Avant-Garde.

Looking back at one of René Burri’s little known projects, Simon Baker highlights the heroism and ruins of space exploration in Burri’s photo-book An American Dream: Photographs from the world of NASA and the Pentagon.

Staged images of the lunar surface by 19th century amateur astronomer James Nasmyth, anaglyph stereoscopic prints invented by Louis Ducos du Hauron and the first images of the moon in colour and in 3D by Léon Gimpel are explored in an article by Inès de Bordas.

In the lead up week to Brighton & Hove Pride, we invited photographer Peyton Fulford to take over our Instagram account. With an emphasis on narrative portraiture, Peyton’s personal work focuses on the documentation of queerness in the American South.

Maria Gruzdeva shares images from her series Direction Space for our Photography+ #3 Space. Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the moon landing, Gruzdeva shares an insight into her process, how she thinks about photography and why she makes work.

For #3 Space we invited Anka Gregorczyk and Igor Zieliński to take part in conversations through images in our Instagram Photochats.

Artist, Fabian Reimann shares his series Space Colonies for ifor our third issue Photography+Space, coinciding with the anniversary of the moon landing.

London based Photographer Robin Friend takes over our Instagram account to share his series Bastard Countryside.

Photographer, Megan Doherty takes over our Instagram account May, 2019.

The week after winning the public prize of the New Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles, Alys Tomlinson shares her winning series over our Instagram account.

Ahead of her exhibition opening at Arles, we invite Brooklyn based artist Pixy Liao to our Instagram Takeover.

Our next Instagram Takeover comes from Rory Doyle, a working photographer based in Cleveland, Mississippi in the rural Mississippi Delta.

Dance – State: bridging the border through dance in 1980s Derry
Text by Shoair Mavlian

Bernice Mulenga shares her series #friendsonfilm for our Instagram Takeover as part of our issue #2 Dance.