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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?
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.
Which eight photographs would Simon Roberts take with him to a desert island?
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.
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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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For issue 11 of Photoworks magazine, Mignon Nixon looked at Nancy Spero’s War Series of 1966-1970.
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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.
Recently awarded the inaugural Emerging Photography of the Year award by The Saltzman Family Foundation and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Keisha Scarville also attracted acclaim for her first book, lick of a tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Aperture/Paris Photo First PhotoBook Award. Her use of …
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Jorre Both celebrates the Internet as a never ending source of imagery today.
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.
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Craig Atkinson talks to Alice Compton about the titles published by Café Royal Books, the weekly photobook publisher.
In this article from Photoworks Issue 13, Ivan Vartanian discusses his Aperture publication Japanese Photo Books of the 1960s and 70s
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.
‘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.’
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In the opinion of most observers, the process of political transition in Spain was a model of its kind.
Late last summer, buried deep in a New England barn that had been converted into a cluttered antique shop, I spotted a dusty old copy of the defunct magazine, U.S. Camera.
Our next guest editor is photographer, Eva Stenram, taking over our account in June 2016.
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.
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 …
Critical Pulse invites you to reflect on your position and needs in the current art landscape. Explore your existence in our immediate creative ecosystem by generating text and image-based responses to the selected questions by University of Sussex alumni as part of the Sussex Festival of Ideas. What are the possibilities for the art sector? …
A resource inviting students to engage critically with the technologies behind digital image making. Introduction Images surround our daily lives, but what’s involved in getting these images in front of our eyes, the technology that brings photography to our screens? Do you always need a camera, a human even, to create an image? What are …
Queer History Now is an LGBTQ+ youth group dedicated to responding to queer histories through heritage and creative skills. The collective has brought together young people with different interests and backgrounds who have developed a shared ethos for encountering, producing and challenging queer history. The group built a visual language using a broad range of …
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.
I was always entranced by the photographic image: what an image meant to me – what I imagined it meant to others – what it told us of a scene, a people, a life – and, by omission as much as inclusion, it often endorsed.
Its two o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting with a mug of milk at a laptop with a broadband connection in our upstairs middle bedroom alternating between writing this magazine article and waiting to bid for a magazine on eBay.
A learning resource about using photography to connect people with place, community and the historic environment through collaborative practice.
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William Klein’s lasting legacy to photography will be his four city books New York (1956), Rome (1959), Tokyo and Moscow (both 1964).
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We are delighted to launch an interactive page from Mónica Alcázar-Duarte. You can visit this page below: Visit Mónica Alcázar-Duarte’s interactive page here We are pleased to partner with The Ampersand Foundation for the second consecutive year, to offer a residency opportunity for lens-based artists. This year the selected artist is Mónica Alcázar-Duarte. Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British artist who works with new technologies such as augmented and mixed reality …
Artist Book: Ori Gersht, limited edition of 1000 boxed sets each comprising three hardback books and one soft-back text by Robert Rowland Smith in a foil embossed Effalin slip cover. Artist Book: Ori Gersht is conceived by the artist as a piece of work in its own right, composed of three volumes, each taking a separate Gersht film work as …
Launched in London in 1983, Format Photographers Agency championed contemporary documentary photography by women – and a co-operative approach to working, explain founding members Maggie Murray, Joanne O’Brien, and Jenny Matthews © Joanne O’Brien, Format Photographers. Greenham Common, Peace Camp Activist, 1983, reprinted 2023. On show in the Tate Britain exhibition Women in Revolt! Art …
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.
Join us this September for Summit Photo, a new three-day summit bringing together world-leading photographers, researchers and policy makers to investigate how photography and photojournalism can address the environmental and humanitarian challenges of our time. Organised in partnership by The Royal Geographical Society, Photoworks and The Royal Photographic Society, with official sponsor Rolex. Summit Photo …
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Specific events mark generations and eras. If you’re an adult American today, you can recall where you were and what you were doing when the jets hit the World Trade Center because it changed your world forever.
Each morning that I walk into work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I am made strongly aware of the frame of reference surrounding the photographs that it is my job to care for and to make accessible on a physical and intellectual level.
Photographer, Sian Davey, author of ‘Looking for Alice’, took over our Instagram account during March, 2016.
Recent 2016 University of Brighton MA Photography graduate Martin Seeds looks at the role of the Northern Ireland Assembly using the natural landscape as metaphor for the fragile political landscape.
Leading on from our Open Forum events during Brighton Photo Biennial 2018, we asked artist Nana Varveropoulou back to kick off our Instagram photochats. As part of our issue #1 Europe, photochats are conversations through images. Featuring Nana Varveropoulou and System of Systems (Danae Io, Rebecca Glyn-Blanco and Maria McLintock).
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When was the last time you were asked to carry something or someone? When was the last time you felt you had to carry something or someone? Before you explore this task, please read Pixy Liao texts here. In pairs, look at It’s Never Been Easy To Carry You by Pixy Liao and answer the …
A resource exploring representation, gender roles and stereotypes through the work of Pixy Liao.
Critical Pulse – UnderExposed 9 November – 8 December 2021 Critical Pulse is a commissioned work by the collective UnderExposed. It is the outcome of a six-month project initiated by the Sussex Festival of Ideas and Photoworks. In June 2021, a panel of curators, directors and arts consultants came together to discuss what lay ahead …
Max Houghton weaves a historical and contemporary view through photograph and women photographers who use wit to disarm.
Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns met for the first time one winter night in 1954 on the corner of Madison Avenue and Fifty-Seventh Street.
Recent ING Unseen Talent Award winner, Andrea Grützner features on our Ideas on Talent series. We discuss how she came to photography, her approach to spaces and the difference between public and private.
Ian Flanders’ series ‘By The River’ was selected from our call for entries for our upcoming Annual on ‘Women’.
In this commissioned article for Photoworks Annual, Diane Smyth provides context for the three selected folios and presents the very different, but equally critical, takes on the marketing fantasy of fashion photography.
What responsibility does a photographer have towards the people they show? And are images fundamentally objectifying? Rene Matić is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as ‘rude(ness)’, or an evidencing and honouring of the in-between. Photoworks assistant curator Danit Ariel met with …
Carolina Semprucci, 06 December 2024 General outrage regarding Meta’s small print enabling AI training from public posts on Instagram and Facebook has recently reignited debate about the lack of transparency surrounding data collection. Although Meta confirmed that re-sharing the viral post objecting to the training was never a valid opt-out method, the ease with which …
Written by Fiona Rogers Throughout her career, Catalonian photographer Laia Abril has been visualising the unimaginable and creating one of the most important records of our time; a photographic history of misogyny and its ongoing impact on the lives of women and girls. In her powerful three-part exploration entitled A History of Misogyny, Abril interrogates …
Saman archive started as a collection of negatives taken by professional photographers in Ghana but, says founder Adjoa Armah, the project is much more than a picture library. Taking in many other aspects of Ghanaian culture, it also encompasses her diasporic relationship with the country, and how we think of and create archives. Photography+ writer in residence …
Dance is a universal language of expression. We dance alone, in the privacy of our own homes; we dance together, in pairs and in groups, forming communities based on shared likes and experiences. Photoworks X at Peckham 24 explored the intersection between dance, music and movement through contemporary photography, performance and video, celebrating how these …
This is a question that resounds throughout the history of photography. When Robert Frank first published The Americans, one of the touchstones of modern photography, it was greeted with dismay and derision by many critics including the photographer and editor of Aperture magazine, Minor White, who damned it as , “Utterly misleading! A degradation of a nation!”
Photographs taken in secret by cross-dressers in the 1950s and 60 are now being widely published and shown: curator and editor Isabelle Bonnet has pondered the ethics for and against showing their images, finds Diane Smyth. © Art Gallery of Ontario Andrea Susan (attributed to), Photo shoot with Lili, Wilma, and friends, Casa Susanna (detail), …
The photographic portrait is a troubled category. Representations of non-normative sexualities are dependent upon the forensics of biological determinism, which read signs of difference on the surface of the body as symptoms of abnormality.
Images by Tee Corinne Text by Charlotte Flint In the spring of 1978, American photographer Tee Corinne began working on her remarkable photobook, Yantras of Womanlove: Diagrams of Energy. Following a profound heartbreak, Corinne described how she ‘began to have waking dreams about this book. It became like a lover for me through one of …
Faces are funny things. They are inordinately plastic and expressive, constantly changing according to our health, attitudes and moods—brightening and darkening, lifting and drooping, opening and closing—and always, inexorably in the process of ageing, whatever makeup or makeover manoeuvres we try to pull off.
In partnership with the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, we are excited to announce the first UK exhibition of Laia Abril’s, A History of Misogyny, Chapter two: On Rape and Institutional Failure, at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London. A visual history of misogyny spanning over 2000 years—focusing on the pervasion of rape in societies around the …
During the opening weekend of Brighton Photo Biennial, Ewen Spencer takes over our Instagram account, going behind the scenes of his installation at Fabrica Gallery.
Written by Elijah Ndoumbe For the book review portion of my digital residency with Photoworks, I took a look at Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Orifice + Aperture (2022) published by TBW Books. To clarify – I am neither an art critic, nor am I a professional arts writer. I am merely an artist, who has taken …
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In Summer 2007, photographer Richard Nicholson decided to shoot images of professional darkrooms in and around London, developing an archive which formed the part of the exhibition ANALOG. Tot Taylor, for the Spring/Summer Issue of Photoworks 2012, reviewed the exhibition.
Spare Rib co-founder Marsha Rowe shares her thoughts on the formation and evolution of the magazine and the use of photography in raising the awareness of women’s roles in society.
Bill Brandt The English at Home Text by Zmira Zilkha The early twentieth century saw several projects exploring how photography can be used to capture ideas of national identity. Perhaps most famously August Sanders’ Faces of our Time (1929) which focused on a certain time and place. Similarly Bill Brandt’s iconic 1936 photobook The English at …
For Photoworks Annual Issue 20, Susan Bright, curator of Home Truths, explores prescriptive models of motherhood peddled by tabloid media. What are the implications for our understanding of motherhood and can contemporary art provide a critical counterpoint to mainstream representations?
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s current project is an intervention in and reworking of Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer, originally published in East Germany in 1955 and republished in the UK in 1998.
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
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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 …
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.
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 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 …
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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
Photobookshow is a Brighton-based arts organisation, set up in 2011 to raise the profile of artist-led photobooks.
On the eve of Mike Mandel’s major exhibition at SFMOMA, we caught up to talk about his projects, approach and long term collaboration with Larry Sultan.
VIDEO: Julian Stallabrass discusses the Photoworks publication Memory Of Fire, its importance and the challenges he faced as its editor. Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images – edited by Julian Stallabrass Essays by: Coco Fusco, Stefaan Decostere, Sarah James, Rita Leistner and Julian Stallabrass. Includes interviews with: Broomberg and Chanarin, Philip …
Each year Photoworks is asked by London College of Communications to judge and offer an award to a postgraduate from the MA Photography course.
We catch up with Prix Pictet 2017 nominee Mandy Barker, to hear more about her ‘imperfectly known animals’.
Further to our statement on Photoworks’ commitment to being anti-racist, we wanted to update you on what we as a team are now doing to take this forward. Part 1 of our commitment was published on our website on 8 June 2020 and can be found here What we will now do: …
Further to our statement on Photoworks’ commitment to being anti-racist, we wanted to update you on what we as a team are now doing to take this forward. Part 1 of our commitment was published on our website on 8 June 2020 and can be found here What we will do: We will work …
Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative energy and diversity in photography, the Photoworks Monograph series surveys the work of the most important photographers in the UK. Comprehensively illustrated, and with specially commissioned texts, these substantial 112-page monographs are the first in-depth study of each artist’s work, acknowledging their achievement to date while introducing their work …
A few years ago a rather unusual opportunity presented itself to me. I was asked to join the road trip honeymoon of a photographer whom I had commissioned and become friends with whilst working as a Photography Editor at the Sunday Times magazine.
This book is part of the 3 for 2 Offer including: Monograph – Sophy RickettMonograph – Bettina von ZwellMonograph – Clare StrandMonograph – Gareth McConnellEdited Photographs 1992 – 2004 – Nigel Shafran Add three of these books to the cart and use the discount code: 3FOR2MONO at the checkout – Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative …
The Photocopy Club is a collective producing a monthly exhibition of photocopied/xerox photography from photographers around the world.
This book is part of the 3 for 2 Offer including: Monograph – Sophy Rickett Monograph – Bettina von Zwehl Monograph – Clare Strand Monograph – Gareth McConnell Edited Photographs 1992 – 2004 – Nigel Shafran Add three of these books to the cart and use the discount code: 3FOR2MONO at the checkout – Reflecting a …
This book is part of the 3 for 2 Offer including: Monograph – Sophy RickettMonograph – Bettina von ZwellMonograph – Clare StrandMonograph – Gareth McConnellEdited Photographs 1992 – 2004 – Nigel Shafran Add three of these books to the cart and use the discount code: 3FOR2MONO at the checkout – Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative …
This book is part of the 3 for 2 Offer including: Monograph – Sophy Rickett Monograph – Bettina von Zwell Monograph – Clare Strand Monograph – Gareth McConnell Edited Photographs 1992 – 2004 – Nigel Shafran Add three of these books to the cart and use the discount code: 3FOR2MONO at the checkout – Reflecting a …
26 October The Well, Kemptown 4pm – 8pm Join us for the book launch of Lauren Joy Kennett’s (LJK) first photobook Sorry I’m Not Sorry and Cole Flynn Quirke’s (CFQ) House of the Stray Dog. Book your ticket now Following the solo exhibition of Sorry I’m Not Sorry, Lauren Joy Kennett (LJK) and Photoworks are proud to launch …
Guided by photographic artist Lindsey Smith this group of young photographers explored a range of photographic concepts and processes. The 9-week online programme included artist talks, technical masterclasses and lively group discussion. The participants were set a series of themes in which to develop their skills; Working with the Archive, My Community, Place, and Collective Practice. In …
Win a Photoworks 2022 book bundle! Just complete the 2022 survey below, sharing your experience at a Photoworks 2022 event, and send us a screenshot of the ‘submit’ page to info@photoworks.org.uk before 31 March. We’ll randomly select a new winner every other day between now and 30 March, who will receive a book bundle of our following …
The companion publication to the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 exhibition examines the work by Awardees Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova, enabled by the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. The 40 page soft-back includes commissioned essays by Elinor Carucci, Ewa Tatar and Aaron Schuman. A Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks publication Designed by LOUP Published in 2015 …
The companion publication to the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2018 exhibition examines the work by Awardees Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin, Lua Ribeira, enabled by the second Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. The 48 page soft-back includes commissioned essays by Tim Clark and images and statements from the Awardees. A Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks publication Designed by Pavitt and Pavitt …
For this issue of Photography+, we reached out to people whose work helps us rethink our photographic practices—how we change the way we produce and buy equipment, process photographs, build artistic communities, and confront the climate crisis as photographers. Hannah Fletcher is a London-based artist, working with camera-less photographic processes. She is the founder of …
Photoworks Summit is the place for photographers, creatives and arts professionals to gather and explore ‘The Thing’ about photography; from festivals to photobooks and across creative and professional practices. Featuring two days of presentations, performances, round tables and practical sessions, Photoworks Summit is an opportunity to meet, exchange and collaborate.
Photoworks & Jerwood Arts announce major commissioning and exhibiting opportunity for early-career artists The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. Two artists will receive a £15,000 award each with a full package of support from Photoworks and Jerwood …
The seventh Brighton Photo Biennial (BPB16) Beyond the Bias – Reshaping Image focussed on identity and understandings of our personal and projected image as influenced by the pervasive genre of fashion and style photography.
We spoke to Jan McCullough, recent winner of the Fotobookfestival Kassel Dummy Award 2015, about her series ‘Home Instruction Manual’.
A resource with simple tips and ideas exploring the animal life around us, from family pets to urban wildlife and conservation issues.
Amah-Rose Abrams, 02 May 2025 Our relationship with photography is always changing. Events parsed through ever evolving technologies offer us new perspectives and our relationship evolves with the images we consume, be they of massacres or a stranger’s outfit of the day. Resistance at Turner Contemporary traces back the relationship between photography and resistance in …
Contradiction, a certain tentativeness, the rolling out of threadbare clichés and an apologist tone, all characterise the largely uncritical art-world appraisals of Nobuyoshi Araki to date.
It provides a first-hand account of the military action in the Middle-East by using the discussion, editing and arrangement of photographs made by Riley, a nurse in Abu Ghraib prison, while on tours of duty. The photographs bypass the glamorous, photojournalistic styling of the broadcast and print media depictions of war. Stripped of this theatre, the images take on both a more sinister and more recognisable air. Here, Riley and Monica Haller reflect on the book and how it relates to the idea of protest.
A series of short interviews with artists, curators, educators and writers each introducing their practice and describing their careers path, providing valuable insight and advice about a range of jobs in photography.
From its outset, the Internet promised a new freedom for photography, providing a space outside the conventional outlets of galleries, books and magazines
We are partnering with English Heritage to offer an exciting new commissioning opportunity for photographers aged between 18 and 25! Four successfully commissioned artists will be invited to select an English Heritage site to use as a creative springboard. Using that site, artists will then create a new body of photographic work exploring alternative narratives …
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Danit Ariel is a Queer Jewish visual artist and writer constructing an empathic gaze. Her research asks how we share and hold each other’s stories, as well as how art can create new ways of ‘meeting’; with an emphasis on platforming marginalised narratives. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2021 …
We are partnering with English Heritage to offer an exciting new commissioning opportunity for photographers aged between 18 and 25. Four successfully commissioned artists will be invited to select an English Heritage site to use as a creative springboard. Using that site, artists will then create a new body of photographic work exploring alternative narratives …
In this article from Issue 11, artist Daniel Blaufuks explains to Ben Burbridge how visiting the Nazi camp Theresienstadt informed his work.
Exit had been in existence some time before I joined. They had published Down Wapping, a small booklet in 1973 about the working class community in Wapping, East London and it contained the work of four photographers, Nicholas Battye, Diane Olson, Alex Slotzkin and Paul Trevor.
A new icon, with the appearance of a little piece of torn paper, appeared mysteriously on my PC Desktop last week, enigmatically labelled ‘scrap’.
If you are under the age of thirty you may not have heard of Chris Killip. For some the landscape of postwar photography is unimaginable without his influence.
This stunning series of colour photographs, presented as double page full bleed spreads, by Magnum photographer Mark Power, documents the comprehensive refurbishment of HM Treasury in London. In common with Power’s previous work on the Millennium Dome, this project follows the unfolding of a dramatic narrative, the transformation of space as a form of architectural …
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Text by Photoworks Writer-in-residence Marissa Chen
Clément Chéroux, 06 December 2024 Stories of people who have little; of people who are invisible, or hidden; portraits of the unknown, of the nameless, the downtrodden; chronicles of ordinary, humble, or forgotten lives—for a few decades now, a whole section of the historical discipline has attempted to retrace the history of those who, unlike …
Patrick Fox, director of Create, talks to Anthony Luvera about his collaborative project not going shopping for Queer in Brighton.
Fred Ritchin, 02 May 2025 Much criticism has been aimed at AI-generated images as being derivative, simplistic, racist and misogynistic, in large part due to their having been trained on masses of online images that are themselves highly compromised. But what of the current use of photographs by conventional media outlets? Do these images distinguish …
Trine Stephensen, photographer and founder of ‘The Plantation Journal’ talks to us about the history of the journal and how she came to curating.
Welcome to Mónica Alcázar-Duarte’s interactive page. Please hover and click Watch Mónica’s Ampersand Residency journey below: https://vimeo.com/582522199 Watch a Spanish Subtitled version of Mónica’s Ampersand Residency here.
October 2007 – April 2008 Edited by Gordon MacDonald and featuring folios by Paul Graham, Polly Braden, Taryn Simon, Daniel Stier and Hannah Starkey, Issue 9 of Photoworks explores the shifting and problematic role of the photograph as document. Our forum discussion takes a critical look at the Magnum photo agency, Julian Stallabrass interviews Phillip …
Chris Boot had just published Stephen Gill’s first book Field Studies when I began working for him in 2005.
An extract from an interview with Carmen Soth. 30th July 2010.
In the back seat of a car, two little boys, one under and one over ten years old, and between them a smiling photographic cut-out— of their father, we are informed— in army battle dress (green/brown camouflage with a tan T-shirt).
At any political photo-opportunity photographers should always pause for a moment and ask themselves: is there a chance I can capture a career-defining image of a politician, perhaps a photograph that will always register in the public’s mind?
A resource investigating ‘movement’ as a photographic concept and also as a theme relating to migration, action or transience and the passing of time.
The Ampersand/ Photoworks Fellowship is a transformative commissioning opportunity for a mid-career artist to complete a new body of work. This Fellowship is created in collaboration with The Ampersand Foundation for an artist working with photography living in the UK. Whilst many opportunities exist for emerging and graduate photographers, the UK currently has few high-profile …
The editorial in the current issue of Photoworks Annual and the short essay I wrote for the Jerwood Encounters: Family Politics gallery guide make a similar point regarding their shared theme of ‘Family Politics’.
Text by Raquel Villar-Pérez, Photoworks. Xaviera Simmons (born 1974) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. Her series Sundown (2018–) and Index (2008–) will be exhibited alongside three new video works at Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building as part of this year’s Liverpool Biennial. Simmons was exposed to art from an early age and had access to New York’s major museums and art institutions as she grew up. Her work is rooted …
In Photoworks issue 13, Aaron Schuman introduced Japanese photographer Yuji Obata’s project Wintertale
Issue 22 of Photoworks Annual looks at women and their roles in photography, as subjects, creators and consumers. The new writing, new photography and powerful archival images presented in Issue 22, connect wider ideas surrounding the subject and share important recent shifts affecting women and photography today. Photoworks Annual Issue 22: Women Marsha Rowe co-founding editor of Spare Rib, …
Explore your heritage through photography. Pick up a camera (or Smartphone) and explore your roots, identity, family history or cultural heritage through photography. We want you to share your story. Your stories shape our world. The Untold Heritage photography call makes room for people whose voices aren’t heard. Untold Heritage embraces fresh perspectives. We’re looking …
Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative energy and diversity in photography, the Photoworks Monograph series surveys the work of the most important emerging photographers in the UK. Comprehensively illustrated, and with specially commissioned texts, these substantial 112-page monographs are the first in-depth study of each artist’s work, acknowledging their achievement to date while introducing their …
“Ryan L. Moule’s work often takes on an ephemeral state and predominantly concern the temporalities produced by photographic technologies. By skipping the final stages of the chemical photographic process, Ryan’s works often escape the supposed permanence and coherence of the photograph-as-document. This temporally inflected model of representation proposes to predicate its specificity on the medium itself.
In this article, Artist taking part in the Digital Residency over June 2024, Raymond Thompson Jr, walks us through some of the most influential photobooks he has encountered. He also introduces us to his own photobook recently published, Appalachian Ghost. Photobooks have been such an essential part of my photo education. I spent countless hours …
Placement Opportunity for a young creative aged 18 – 25 years We are pleased to launch a paid placement opportunity for a young creative to join the Photoworks team as we strive to better understand and engage with our younger audiences. Through this placement you will gain hands-on experience of working for a national arts charity and learn approaches to reaching and engaging young audiences digitally. We are delighted …
In this book, British photographer Mark Power returns to the dialogue between real and imaginary space that characterised his successful book, The Shipping Forecast (1996). Once again the premise for this work is a map, in this case the outer limits of the great sprawl of London as defined by the A to Z. Taking …
In 1984, the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. The ensuing dispute marked a turning point in the struggle between the government and the trade union movement.
Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative energy and diversity in photography, the Photoworks Monograph series surveys the work of the most important emerging photographers in the UK. Comprehensively illustrated, and with specially commissioned texts, these substantial 112-page monographs are the first in-depth study of each artist’s work, acknowledging their achievement to date while introducing their …
