Teaching Resources
Our teaching resources are designed to support knowledge and understanding of photography.
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From Mineral to Pixel
A resource inviting students to engage critically with the technologies behind digital image making. Introduction Images surround our daily lives, but what’s involved in getting these images in front of our eyes, the technology that brings photography to our screens? Do you always need a camera, a human even, to create an image? What are …
Gathering and Unravelling: Recording Untold Histories
A resource supporting teachers to explore colonial history through photography. Introduction This resource invites teachers to explore ways in which lived experience can inform some of the visual strategies that develop when recording traces of hidden, sensitive or untold histories held within heritage sites. This resource has been developed as part of a schools’ project …
A Collective Portrait of a Place (Zine Making as a Collaborative Practice)
A learning resource about using photography to connect people with place, community and the historic environment through collaborative practice. Part of the Picturing High Streets programme.
Picturing High Streets: Some Visual Strategies
A learning resource for teachers supporting students interested in creating a photographic portrait of their high street. This resource offers a series of short, simple visual and photographic strategies that will help students uncover the stories behind the shopfronts and tell the story of their locality.
Combining Text and Image: A Mode of Collaboration
A learning resource exploring the practice of combining text and image, and how this shapes narrative and the interpretation of the collaborative photographic image. Introduction This learning resource has been written by Arpita Shah to accompany her work From one dream to another, commissioned by Devonshire Collective and Photoworks. Themes From one dream to another is collaborative …
Exploring the Forest: Our Relationship with Natural Spaces
A resource about our relationship with the natural world and how we connect with nature. Introduction Part of the Photoworks Festival 2022. A resource about our relationship with the natural world and how we connect with nature explored through The Wall, an ongoing body of work by Anshika Varma. Themes Anshika Varma is an artist …
Love and Observations: Documenting the Family
A learning resource exploring family relationships, childhood and adolescence. Introduction Part of the Photoworks Festival 2022. A learning resource exploring family relationships, childhood and adolescence inspired by the work of Diana Tamane. Themes Half Love by artist Diana Tamane explores familial relationships, childhood memories, love and adolescence. Diana Tamane is a Latvian-born artist based in …
Beyond Representation: Family and Empathy
A learning resource exploring representation through the lens of family relationships and empathy. Introduction Part of the Photoworks Festival: From Little Acorns… A learning resource exploring representation through the lens of family relationships and empathy inspired by the work of artist Mohamad Abdouni. Mohamad Abdouni is an artist, photographer, filmmaker and curator based between Beirut …
Shadows, Alter Egos and our Inner Self
A learning resource exploring representation of our inner self using characterisation and symbolism through the work of Heather Agyepong.
Countryside, Community and Class
A learning resource exploring community, class, and rurality through the work of Joanne Coates.
Photography, Mental Health & Wellbeing
A resource supporting and promoting positive wellbeing within the classroom environment with simple creative exercises and project ideas addressing specific issues around mental health and wellbeing.
It’s About Time
A resource exploring relationships between photography and archaeology.Collections
Resources are grouped in Collections inspired by Photoworks’ curatorial programme and themes relevant to teachers and young people.
Keep checking back as we grow our collections.
Picturing High Streets
Picturing High Streets is about our relationship to place and makes use of photography as a powerful tool through which people can connect with a sense of place, community and the historic environment.
Sense of Place
This diverse collection of teaching resources explores our connection with place and environment, and as part of this, the unique geographical, architectural, or archaeological qualities that specific landscapes or sites hold.
Wellbeing
This collection of teaching resources presents ideas and strategies for helping young people explore personal themes relating to mental health and wellbeing through photography. Many young people grapple with complex issues around identity, emotional health, sense of self or social and educational pressures. Photography can help young people articulate and make sense of personal experiences …
Photoworks Festival
The Photoworks Festival (formerly Brighton Photo Biennial) is a biennial programme that celebrates and shares contemporary photography. The teaching resources in this collection pick out festival themes explored by exhibiting artists.
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a biennial research and development opportunity supporting artists working with photography to make and exhibit new work. This collection of teaching resources explores each artist’s work and the themes of their practice. Be sure to check out the artist films.
