Features

Photoworks features include new writing and audio content from our programme, including talks, events and commissions.

Our favourites include Desert Island Pics online, Instagram Takeovers, online showcase and Ideas Series, all exploring new takes on photography.

Features

Instagram Takeover: Francesca Allen

Follow Francesca Allen sharing works and ideas on our Instagram Takeover, August 2018.

Watch: In conversation with Olu Jenzen

During London Art Fair 2018, contributors to our photography art and visual culture journal, Photoworks Annual, discussed ideas explored within the LGBTQ+ themed Issue 24.

Instagram Takeover: Jessy Boon Cowler

Next on our Instagram Takeover, we welcome London based, Jessy Boon Cowler.

Instagram Takeover: Thomas Albdorf

Recent Photoworks Presents: Cornered artist, Thomas Albdorf takes over our Instagram account, July 2018.

Ideas on Talent: Phoebe Kiely

Phoebe Kiely, recent Photoworks Presents: Cornered artist talks to us as part of our Ideas on Talent series. Sharing her working process behind her first publication ‘They were my landscape’ published by MACK.

Instagram Takeover: Monica Alcazar-Duarte

Monica Alcazar-Duarte shares her work into the way we read and integrate images and information on our Instagram news feed, July 2018.

Showcase: Theo Elias

Photographer, Theo Elias shares his work Smoke, a series spanning 2011-16 and exploring ideas of Identity and freedom through his emotive black and white images.

Photoworks Presents: Collaborate at Free Range

Photoworks Presents: Collaborate, an exhibition celebrating some of the many artists we’ve collaborated with throughout our programme.

Instagram Takeover: Alix Marie

Previous Photoworks cornered artist and 2017 Foam Talent, Alix Marie, takes over our Instagram account, July 2018.

Showcase: Paccarik Orue

Paccarik Orue’s series El Muqui, explores the daily lives and environmental concerns of the communities in the Peruvian Andes.

Showcase: Margo Ovcharenko

Margo Ovcharenko works primarily with portrait photography. In her works she discovers and celebrates primacy of sexuality, intimacy, and empowerment through femininity.

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Watch: Desert Island Pics with Alec Soth

Discover the eight photographs Alec Soth would take to a desert island.

Instagram Takeover: Phoebe Kiely

Recent Photoworks Cornered artist, Phoebe Kiely, takes part in our Instagram Takeover, June 2018.

Instagram Takeover: Marta Zgierska

Polish photographer, Marta Zgierska takes over our Instagram account, April 2018.

Instagram Takeover: Ed Sykes

London based photographer Ed Sykes, shares his landscape imagery on our Instagram account, June 2018.

Instagram Takeover: Federico Ciamei

Italian photographer, Federico Ciamei shares his work during his Instagram Takeover, May 2018. Ciamei’s work focuses on the exploration of people’s desires and dreams; what drives to search for something more than the basic needs and habits.

Instagram Takeover: A.K Burns

Photoworks Annual Issue 24 contributor, A.K Burns, takes over our account, May 2018.

Showcase: Brendan Barry

Over two years, UK based photographer, Brendan Barry, logged 22,000 miles driving back and forth across the US, photographing, among other things, empty motel rooms. In a collaboration with writer Jeff Parker, the series Clean Rooms, Low Rates is inspired by the history of motels in some of the greatest stories of all time.

Ideas Series: Rafal Milach

Rafal Milach, shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018, speaks to Tom Seymour about his series Refusal

Ideas Series: Steve Macleod

Photoworks Director, Shoair Mavlian, looks at Steve Macleod’s latest series, Hal, examining the topographics of the United Arab Emirates.

Ideas on Talent: Communities within Photography with Thom Bridge

As part of our Ideas on Talent series, we spoke to Thom Bridge about the creation of his monthly peer forum, Fields/s and the importance of community for photographers.

Ideas Series: Corinne Silva

Corinne Silva recently showed new works in the exhibition NEW: DEFENCE open 28 April 2018 at Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury.  

Showcase: Eui-Jip Hwang

New York based photographer, Eui-Jip Hwang, looks at the construction of identity with his series ‘Live Your Dream’, next on our showcase.

Instagram Takeover: Ryan L. Moule

Taking over our account April 2018, photographer Ryan L. Moule, works at the intersection between photography, installation & sound. Follow all week to keep up with his postings.

Showcase: Yiorgis Yerolymbos

We look at the work of photographer, Yiorgis Yerolymbos for our next showcase. His aerial landscapes shot in Athens consider the scale of impact of human presence on our landscape.

Instagram Takeover: NEW:DEFENCE

NEW:DEFENCE (@newdefence) are a group of artists, collaborators and curators who are leading a project to exhibit photography, sculpture, installation, film and sound work at Coalhouse Fort, Thurrock, Spring, 2018.

 © Lua Ribeira, Untitled, from the series 'Subida al Cielo', originally commissioned through the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, 2017

Watch: Jerwood/Photoworks Awards Virtual exhibition tour

Enjoy audio and still images from the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, narrated by the three Awardees.

Instagram Takeover: Melanie King

Exploring the intrinsic connection between humans, materials and phenomena existing beyond the Earths’ atmosphere, Melanie King shares new works and ideas as part of our Instagram takeover, April 2018.

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