Watch: Desert Island Pics with Olivia Arthur
Olivia Arthur discusses which eight photographs she would take to a desert island with host, Stephen Bull.
Olivia Arthur discusses which eight photographs she would take to a desert island with host, Stephen Bull.
Which eight photographs would Simon Roberts take with him to a desert island?
Recorded at Photo London 2017, celebrated Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas discusses the eight photos she’d take with her to a desert island.
Which eight photographs would you take to a desert island?
Which eight photographs would Simon Roberts take with him to a desert island?
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.
Mishka Henner has been described as a modern-day Duchamp for his appropriation of image-rich technologies including Google Earth, YouTube and Taaz.
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.
Photographer Nick Waplington, chooses eight photographs to take with him to an imaginary desert island. Interviewed by our regular host Stephen Bull, Nick discusses his choices and how they reflect his life and career.
Photoworks presents Desert Island Pics with Mike Mandel in partnership with Format International Photography Festival
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.
Discover the eight photographs Alec Soth would take to a desert island.
The Photographers’ Gallery Director, Brett Rogers O.B.E. reveals her choices to our regular host Stephen Bull.
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.
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.
Mishka Henner became a Photoworks Desert Island Pics castaway in September 2013.
Which eight photographs would Martin Parr take to a desert island?
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.
Curator of Photography and International Art at Tate, Simon Baker revealed his Desert Island Pics to an audience at Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, London in December 2013.
At the beginning of 2016, we decided to take a look back at five of our previous talks from the archive.
Renowned photographer, Nick Waplington commissioned for One Planet City chooses eight photographs to take with him to an imaginary desert island.
The photographer Brian Griffin, whose renowned publications include Work and Power joined Stephen Bull to share his Desert Island Pics at Format Festival 2013.
Our castaways are usually asked to choose the eight photographs they would take with them to a desert island. But we’re marking Photobook Bristol 2014 with a slight change to our customary format.
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.
Our second castaway during the Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 was British photographer Anna Fox, whose work has been widely exhibited and published internationally since the 1980s.
Once again Photoworks will be heading to Derby for the FORMAT International photography festival.
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.
Photoworks are pleased to be spending the week at London Art Fair 2014 hosting a talk and holding a stand with a selection of publications.
‘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.
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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.
Next up on our Instagram takeover is London based photographer, David Ryle, January 2018.
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.
Selected as a Photoworks Award runner up, 2016 LCC photography graduate Giulia Parlato recreates a mythical narrative for her fictional characters to navigate.
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.
At 5.30am on 16 July 1945 the US Government detonated the first atomic bomb at the Alamagordo Bombing Range in the Jornado del Muerto desert, New Mexico.
BPB14 Community, Collectives & Collaborations opening weekend offers a schedule of talks and exhibition previews in and beyond Brighton & Hove.
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We’re looking forward to exhibiting again at London Art Fair.
At this years Brighton Digital Festival we will be continuing our Desert Island Pics and commissioning new online articles in our Ideas series.
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.
Prompted by Photoworks to answer What makes a good photograph? I decided to put the question to photonet forum, asking this same question to the contributors, who are mainly photographers.
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 …
Marianne Bjørnmyr series ‘An Authentic Relation’ looks at a diary found on the barren and desolate South-Atlantic island of Ascension in 1726.
Alexandra Uhart was awarded the first place Photoworks Prize at the 2015 London College of Communication Photography Degree Show for her project Somewhere Here.
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.
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.
‘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.’
Leading on from her exhibition as part of The Discovery Award at Les Recontres d’Arles, we caught up with Monica Alcazar-Duarte, August 2018.
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 …
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 …
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.
With this showcase we look at the series ‘Lanzarote’ by Giovanna Petrocchi – a constructed world encouraging reflections on the meaning of landscape.
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.
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.
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 …
“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, …
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?
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.
Vilem Flusser, an exemplary twentieth-century philosopher of photography, wrote that a photographer is not a “Homo Faber” but a “Homo Ludens,” and a trickster.
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 …
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1st place Photoworks Graduate Award winner, Matthew Broadhead explores chronology, boundaries and ideas of home in Heimr.
We interviewed Sophie Gerrard in the run up to her upcoming exhibition for Document Scotland: The Ties That Bind at
Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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 …
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 …
Gallerist Chris Littlewood shares his viewpoint for a week by taking over our Instagram account, February 2017.
Recent Photoworks Annual Issue 24 contributor, Andrew Mroczek becomes our next guest editor for our Instagram takeover, February 2018.
Watch Heather Agyepong discuss her series ‘Habitus: Potential Realities’ shown as part of Brighton Photo Biennial 2018.
Listen to Lynn Weddle discuss the making of Brighton Photo Biennial exhibition ‘Why Are We Leaving?’ where young people from Brighton & Hove used photography to respond to the themes of this year’s festival.
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 …
Nadav Kander discusses his latest series ‘Dark Line – The Thames Estuary’ showing at Flowers Gallery, London, December 2017.
A Channel 4 commissioned film about survivors of the Lampedusa boat tragedy has grown out of a project enabled by The Photoworks British School at Rome (BSR) Fellowship.
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, …
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.
Max Houghton weaves a historical and contemporary view through photograph and women photographers who use wit to disarm.
Max Pinckers is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium. His oeuvre explores visual strategies in documentary photography.
The Sea Stayed Calm for 180 Miles is a mixed media installation made up of 3 distinct elements- real-time stream from Google Earth, sound and the bench.
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 …
Chloe Sells becomes our next guest editor for our Instagram Takeover. Sells was born in Aspen, Colorado and began photographing in 1993.
In this conversation with David Batchelder, we hear about his new body of work, Tideland, and his approach to capturing these otherworldly landscapes.
Watch Émeric Lhuisset discuss his series L’Autre Rive shown as part of Brighton Photo Biennial 2018.
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 …
Listen to Inès de Bordas, Curator of Cross Channel Photographic Mission as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2018, discuss her choices and the history of the exhibition.
Watch Tereza Červeňová discuss her series ‘June’ shown as part of Brighton Photo Biennial 2018.
Listen to Robin Maddock discuss his series ‘Nothing We Can’t Fix By Running Away’ shown as part of Brighton Photo Biennial 2018.
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) …
As the migrant crisis in Europe continues apace, Gemma Padley considers the work of three photographers exploring migration through photography.
“Well, we must wait for the future to show.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse