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.

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.

Instagram Takeover: Haley Morris-Cafiero

Photographer and performer, Haley Morris-Cafiero, shares her practice and process during her Instagram Takeover, April 2018.

Showcase: Giovanna Petrocchi

With this showcase we look at the series ‘Lanzarote’ by Giovanna Petrocchi – a constructed world encouraging reflections on the meaning of landscape.

Watch: Natasha Caruana in conversation with Celia Davies

Former Photoworks Director and HOUSE Biennial Curator, Celia Davies, talks with photographic artist Natasha Caruana about her 2017 HOUSE/Photoworks co-commission, ‘Timely Tale’, plus her wider practice.

Instagram Takeover: Thom Bridge

British based Swedish photographer Thom Bridge shares insights into his practice as our next guest editor for our Instagram Takeover, April 2018.

Offspring Photo Meet: Interview with Mimi Mollica

Mimi Mollica, founder of Offspring Photo Meet and a photographer in his own right, talks to us about the portfolio reviews, giving advice to photographers looking to get involved.

Watch: Early Steps

Max Houghton, writer, curator, editor and lecturer talks to four undergraduates about their work and their first professional commission.

Showcase: Annabel Elgar

‘Noon in the Desert’, the photographic series by Annabel Elgar, examines nuclear weapons test sites from the 1950s, drawing on the test procedures for inspiration.

Instagram Takeover: Steve Macleod

We welcome Metro Creative Director and award-winning photographer, Steve Macleod, as our next guest editor for our Instagram account, March 2018.

Ideas Series Interview: Bruno V. Roels

Belgian based photographer, Bruno V. Roels shares his analogue photography ahead of his show opening at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2018.

Showcase: Peter Spurgeon

Bristol based photographer, Peter Spurgeon shares his work exploring former decoy locations related to a secret British Air Ministry project that took place during the Second World War.

Showcase: Tamara Stoffers

Dutch visual artist, Tamara Stoffers shares her collage and painting experiments based on propaganda from the Soviet Union.

Ideas on Talent: Viacheslav Poliakov

Ukrainian photographer Viacheslav Poliakov, talks to us ahead of the opening of Circulations Festival 2018, where his series ‘Lviv – God’s Will’ is on show.