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.
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 …
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.
Listening To Images
A resource exploring sound and poetry as a way of responding to images.
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.