Listen: Photoworks Desert Island Pics with Jeremy Deller

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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.

Interview: Incoming by Richard Mosse

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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.’

Marilene Ribeiro
Image Gallery

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

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

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

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

Showcase: Rebecca Soliman

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

Shiraz Bayjoo: Searching for Libertalia

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

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.

Hudda Khaireh

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

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 …

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) …

Become a Photoworks Friend

Becoming a Photoworks Friend is the only way to receive a Photoworks Festival in a Box. Join now to get yours as well as a range of year round exclusive content, opportunities, invites and 20% off in our online shop.

Join
Photoworks Opportunities

Keep up to date with our latest opportunities as well as ways to learn more about how to get involved with and support our work.

Sign up here

Become a Photoworks Friend

The only way to receive Annual 26 & get exclusive access to our events, content and a 20% shop discount

Join