Teaching Resources
Our teaching resources are designed to support knowledge and understanding of photography.
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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.
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 …
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.
Pets and Animals
A resource with simple tips and ideas exploring the animal life around us, from family pets to urban wildlife and conservation issues.
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.
Paying Attention
A resource supporting group discussion about the work of photographer Poulomi Basu, focusing in particular on photography’s ability to help us pay attention to the world around us.
Temporary Self
A resource exploring themes of LGBT+ experience and identity inspired by the work of artist Guanyu Xu.
Black Looks
A resource encouraging students to engage with the national debate around the removal of public monuments in relation to colonial history inspired by the work of artist Sethembile Msezane.
On Carrying
A resource exploring representation, gender roles and stereotypes through the work of Pixy Liao.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.
