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Listen: Photoworks Desert Island Pics with Jeremy Deller

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Continuing our Desert Island Pics talks series with audio from 2014, Jeremy Deller discussed the eight photographs he’d take with him to a desert island. Loosely following the format of Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs, our regular host, Stephen Bull discussed Jeremy’s selections with him and discover how they reflect his life and career.

Listen: Desert Island Pics with Martin Barnes

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Which eight photos would you take with you to a desert island? Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum, reveals his choices to our regular host Stephen Bull and discusses how they reflect his life and career.

Desert Island Pics with Jeremy Deller

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Continuing our Desert Island Pics talks series, Jeremy Deller discusses the eight photographs he’d take with him to a desert island. Loosely following the format of Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs, our regular host, Stephen Bull will discuss Jeremy’s selections with him and discover how they reflect his life and career.

Listen: Desert Island Pics with Alison Jackson

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Loosely following the format of Desert Island Discs, this talk took place in January at London Art Fair 2014 and saw Alison choose the eight photographs she’d take with her to a desert island. She discussed the thoughts behind her choices with Stephen Bull.

Desert Island Pics with Sean O’Hagan

The Guardian’s photography writer Sean O’Hagan chooses eight photographs to take with him to a virtual desert island. Stephen Bull (Photography Course Leader, University for the Creative Arts), discusses Sean’s choices with him and examines how they reflect his life and career.

Desert Island Pics

As part of Photoworks Desert Island Pics series, we keep an online archive of our events, where we ask interesting people including photographers, writers and curators about their favourite photographs and how they reflect their life and career.

Watch: Desert Island Pics with Peter Fraser

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Fresh from a Tate St Ives’ retrospective of his thirty-year career, Peter Fraser discussed his choices with Stephen Bull (Photography Course Leader, University for the Creative Arts) in a format that loosely follows Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

Photoworks at Photobook Bristol

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We’ll be heading to Photobook Bristol, 6-8 June 2014, showing a selection of our rare and signed publications, and presenting another installment in our Desert Island Pics talks series.

Showcase: Annabel Elgar

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‘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.

Image Migration

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I provided the image in the poster for the 2007 Globale film festival in Berlin. It depicts burning boats, initially built by illegalised migrants hoping to reach the Canary Islands before being destroyed by the Moroccan police once they had captured them.

Showcase: Oded Balilty

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Photographer, Oded Balilty shares his series ‘Glass Mountains’ looking at the junkyard of Israel’s only glass container factory in the heart of Israel’s desert.

Showcase: Giulia Parlato

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Selected as a Photoworks Award runner up, 2016 LCC photography graduate Giulia Parlato recreates a mythical narrative for her fictional characters to navigate.

Instagram Takeover: Rhiannon Adam

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Rhiannon Adam was born in Co. Cork, Ireland in the 80s. She studied Art and Design at Central Saint Martins before embracing Nabokov, banned books and nonsense poetry while studying English at the University of Cambridge. Adams is our next Instagram takeover on our account.

30 Years of Photoworks

An organisation 30 years – and more – in the making, Photoworks has spent three decades supporting artists and individuals creating, curating, engaging with, developing, and thinking about images across the UK and far beyond. Photoworks Annual 32 celebrates this work, including image-makers from the organisation’s past and present, an in-depth history, and insights into …

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Your Support Your membership helps create opportunities for young people, artists, and writers at all stages of their creative careers. As a registered charity, Photoworks relies on support from funders, partners and Friends to sustain our programme, including publishing, exhibitions, residencies, learning and year-round public engagement. Since 1995, Photoworks has supported contemporary photography across the …

Photoworks Friends

Photoworks Friends is for anyone who wants to learn and be a part of the contemporary photography sector. We are a globally recognised charity proud to offer an engaging, provocative, and insightful year-round programme. By becoming a Friend your annual contribution will also directly support our programme and fund opportunities for artists. Last year, the scheme …

30 Years of Photoworks

Photoworks Annual 32 An organisation 30 years – and more – in the making, Photoworks has spent three decades supporting artists and individuals creating, curating, engaging with, developing, and thinking about images across the UK and far beyond. Photoworks Annual 32 celebrates this work, including image-makers from the organisation’s past and present, an in-depth history, …

TALK
Launch of Photoworks Annual 32

Diane Smyth, editor of the publication, will be in conversation with participating artists Mohamed Hassan and Johnny Pitts joined by book designers Jane & Jeremy.

Interview: Incoming by Richard Mosse

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Richard Mosse talks about his latest project, Incoming, which uses a weapons-grade camera to photograph refugees and migrants as they journey across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

England’s New Lenses: Shortlist

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England’s New Lenses Untold Heritage, 2020 Untold Heritage is part of England’s New Lenses, a partnership project with English Heritage through Shout Out Loud. Untold Heritage invited 13 – 25 year olds across England to explore their own sense of heritage through photography this summer. Young people were asked to share with us the stories …

Showcase: Marianne Bjørnmyr

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Marianne Bjørnmyr series ‘An Authentic Relation’ looks at a diary found on the barren and desolate South-Atlantic island of Ascension in 1726.

Showcase: Alexandra Uhart

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Alexandra Uhart was awarded the first place Photoworks Prize at the 2015 London College of Communication Photography Degree Show for her project Somewhere Here.

Interview: Gilane Tawadros

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In this exclusive interview for Photoworks magazine from Issue 7, Julian Stallabrass talks to Gilane Tawadros about ideas and motivations which shaped the 2006 edition of the Photo Biennial.

Peter Fraser: Oxford University Residency

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In the autumn at the age of nineteen, I arrived at Manchester Polytechnic to study photography, having had an unnerving three months previously studying Civil Engineering at Hatfield Polytechnic and discovering that it wasn’t for me.

Adam Curtis: Dystopian Dialectics

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‘Today we are people who know better,’ the American artist Sam Green tells us in a recent performance of his Utopia in Four Movements, ‘and that’s both a wonderful and terrible thing.’

EXHIBITION
Photobook as Narrator

In this photobook exhibition Danit Ariel, Photoworks Curator, looks at the form of the photobook as a narrator, or a medium in and of itself.

Marilene Ribeiro
Image Gallery

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Marilene’s practice is focused on the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, with a decolonial gaze from the Global South. Her projects are engaged in the political agency of photography and in the role of image-based media in society. Open Fire What is the future of our natural landscapes? What is the future of our …

Growing a second skin during Lockdown

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Interview by Nicola Jeffs, Photoworks. Lucia Pizzani (born 1975) is a Venezuelan artist based in London. Her work addresses ideas of gender, body and nature, and incorporates a mixture of photography, performance, installation, sculpture and video. Drawing on references and ideas from the Surrealists and the body art of the 1970s, as well as practices …

Ideas on Talent: Frances F. Denny

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U.S based photographer, Frances F. Denny speaks about her series and publication, ‘Let Virtue Be Your Guide’ and latest works, ‘Pink Crush’ as part of our Ideas on Talent series.

Showcase: Giovanna Petrocchi

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

Retracing the Existent

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Oluwatobiloba Ajayi, 24 October 2025 Oluwatobiloba Ajayi was commissioned as a writer-in-residence at Aspex Portsmouth to develop a text in response to Traces of the Non-Existent, the Spring 2025 exhibition at Aspex Portsmouth by multidisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo. This residency and its outcome are presented as part of the Photoworks Photography Champions programme, and published …

Showcase: Rebecca Soliman

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Selected as one of the ten showcases from the Annual submission entry ‘Women’, Rebecca Soliman explores what it is to be a member from the territory of Bedouin, Egypt; focussing on what it means to be a Bedouin woman in a land full of crime and violence.

Instagram Takeover: Anouk Kruithof

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Anouk Kruithof’s work has been included in group exhibitions at renowned institutions such as FOAM, the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and this week, she will take over our platform to share her work.

Felicity Hammond

Hidden Gems, 2022 Felicity Hammond’s large-scale collage transports us to futuristic fiery orange scenery. It is reminiscent of apocalyptic images, a run-down construction site in an unknown future. No organic materials can be found; everything needs to be covered. The extracts of blue and orange cleaning products and the silver minerals reinforce the impression that …

Massimiliano Corteselli

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“And thus, in me one sees the law of counter-penalty,” writes Massimiliano Cortesellli in the introduction to Contrapasso. The phrase comes from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, which starts with the author taking a journey through hell with the Roman poet Virgil, meeting the deceased. These people are being punished according to their sins, …

From My Skull

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What do Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Alexander von Humboldt, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, Gertrude Stein, Upton Sinclair, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot have in common?

Heads in a Box

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By Iain Boal On September 11, 2001 Gary Schroen had just enrolled in the CIA’s ‘retirement transition program’. One week later, the former station chief in Kabul and Islamabad was on a plane to Afghanistan, leading a six-man assassination team in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and his general staff.

Zoe Childerley: Beneath the Waves, 2018-2019

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Vast environmental panoramas have been a part of Zoe Childerley’s practice for some time, cataloguing people and their landscapes from the Mojave desert to the Scottish borders. She has travelled far afield, immersing herself with rural communities to create bodies of photographic work made, often using mixed media, over periods of time. For  Beneath the …

Dignified Deaths, Abject Acts

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A review of Mandy Barker’s STILL (FFS) Written by Ricardo Reverón Blanco. ‘Dignified,’ ‘harrowing,’ and ‘inquisitive’ are the words that come to mind when encountering Mandy Barker’s newest body of work, STILL (FFS). Joining scientists on Lord Howe Island—600 kilometres off the coast of New South Wales in the Tasman Sea—in April 2019, Barker began …

Portfolio Reviews

Portfolio Reviews 3 October 2026, 10am-5pm @ POST, Hove Photoworks Portfolio Reviews for artists to develop their practice, network and gain constructive feedback with photography experts from across the UK and beyond. Book Now Aimed at all artists working with photography, these portfolio reviews offer an opportunity to develop your practice, expand your network and …

Nadia Huggins on Freedom, the Ocean, and Re-Presenting the Caribbean

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Want to hear more from Nadia Huggins? Watch below an interview between Editor Nisha Eswaran and artist Nadia Huggins where she shares insights into her practice, motivations and much more:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EYDHxs_54   Nadia Huggins was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where she is currently based. A …

Yshao Lin

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Hujiang is a remote island close to the border of China; from the beginning of the 20th century many people illegally sailed from Hujiang along the Pacific, looking for opportunities elsewhere and, after 1980, to escape the one-child policy. Many of these migrants were forced to leave behind babies and young children, cared for by …

Interview: Nadav Kander

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Nadav Kander discusses his latest series ‘Dark Line – The Thames Estuary’ showing at Flowers Gallery, London, December 2017.

Shiraz Bayjoo: Searching for Libertalia

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By Shoair Mavlian, Photoworks. Combining photography, painting, video and installation Shiraz Bayjoo’s work is multi layered, providing the viewer with a window into complex past histories. His research-based practice often evolves from deep investigations into the legaceys of empire and colonialism. Having made context specific works about his native Mauritius, a space of Afro-Asian hybridity, …

New Writing: Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary

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I have always been fascinated by the work of Diane Arbus. Following several visits to the groundbreaking show Revelations at the V&A, the UK’s first comprehensive survey of her life and work, Arbus’s original approach to photography confirmed for me that the power of her vision remains embedded in her photos.

And So I Watch You From Afar 
and The Most Beautiful Anthropocene

Bringing together two bodies of work by the German-Irish photographer Aindreas Scholz, this exhibition explores ecologically sustainable cameraless photography as a fragile record of environmental change. Coastal edges, vulnerable plant life and unstable landscapes meet within the museum space, forming an island-like installation shaped by erosion, atmosphere, water and time.  Aindreas Scholz’s artmaking focuses on environments affected by human activity, encompassing landscapes …

Hudda Khaireh

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Black looks? Capturing the (de)colonial in the everyday Hudda Khaireh Public monuments function as technologies of memorialising, mnemonic devices that commemorate national narratives. Increasingly, they have also been sites of intense scrutiny, as the histories these monuments commemorate the bodies they venerate – generally white male military and merchant figures – have been criticised for …

Kill Heroes

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Rui Lan in Conversation with Diane Smyth, 06 December 2024 DS: How did you get into photography and film? RL: For my BA I moved to Beijing and studied finance, but after I graduated I went to an exhibition by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe and found myself caught by his work. Previously, I didn’t know …

Léa Chen

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The Stars That Don’t Look Back The Stars That Don’t Look Back explores the intimate and private memories shared by three generations of women living in Taiwan. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, Taiwan, being the largest island between Japan and the Philippines, is geographically valuable for both economic and political reasons. Since the early …

Photoworks X Premio Luigi Ghirri: Forest Residency

Dalby Forest Residency, Forestry England Photoworks and Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Premio Luigi Ghirri (Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award) are delighted to announce our selection of Camilla Marrese and Alessandro Truffa as the photographers who will undertake a one-week artists’ residency at Forestry England Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire. Alessandro Truffa (Cuorgnè, Turin, 1996) …

What We Know, How we Know

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 Nienke Coers14 August 2026 Not every truth arrives as fact. Some emerge through memory, myth, intuition, or community – taking root in the body, resurfacing across time, texturing the surface of the earth. They circle, spiral, wander, sediment, echo, ripple: the ways we come to know the world are as shifting and plural as the …

Un/Stable
Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Festival
2026