Teaching Resources
Our teaching resources are designed to support knowledge and understanding of photography.
Filter by age, theme or subject area to find the resources matching your requirements.
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 …
Community, Home, Place
A resource exploring connections between place, home and representation inspired by the work of Johny Pitts
Myth, Legend and Folklore
A resource exploring approaches to capturing a ‘sense of place’ through photography, inspired by the work of Tereza Zelenkova.
Ecology and Interdependence
A resource using photography as a creative tool for studying animal behaviour, the environment and human impact inspired by the work of Sam Laughlin.
Connections
A series of assignments for students exploring how connections can be made through photography – from collaboration and exchanging photographs as a form of visual conversation to appropriation and photographing blindfolded.
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.
